Phil Kerpen ✔ @kerpen
Posted on 01/20/2016 12:27:24 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
What a strange soundbite for a Republican frontrunner, suggesting that his famously crooked would-be Democratic opponent has more integrity than the most conservative candidate in the race. Gosh, I don't think even Mitch McConnell would say that. Not publicly, anyway.
This is a smear, by the way. He's seizing on the revelation last week that Cruz never disclosed a margin loan from Goldman Sachs, where his wife works, during his first Senate run. That's true, sort of - he never disclosed it to the FEC, which Cruz blamed on a "filing error." But it's not true that he never disclosed the loan publicly. Phil Kerpen dug up this form from Cruz's filing with the Secretary of the Senate before the runoff with David Dewhurst in 2012.
Phil Kerpen ✔ @kerpen
Ted Cruz's primary runoff against Dewhurst was July 31, 2012. He publicly disclosed the margin loan July 9, 2012. 8:29 PM - 13 Jan 2016
The Goldman Sachs loan was noted by the media no later than June 2013, in a story by Roll Call. Trump wants you to believe that Cruz deliberately tried to withhold information about it from the public, but if that were true then obviously he would have omitted it from the Senate filing as well.
It's a smear. And the cherry on top, as you're about to see, is Trump going out of his way to suggest that Cruz played dumb about the FEC filing the same way he supposedly played dumb about his Canadian dual citizenship. The first time I watched this, in fact, I thought Trump was suggesting that Cruz screwed up the filing because he's a Canadian and doesn't know American law. He couldn't have meant that. Could he?
He's saying this, by the way, at a moment when Clintonworld is under FBI investigation for possibly having traded government favors for donations to the Clinton Foundation. The Democratic frontrunner is being scrutinized by federal law enforcement for public corruption and Trump wants you to believe that Cruz is arguably the shadier operator of the two.
Here's a question to ask yourself the next time Trump accuses one of his opponents of being "owned" by special interests: Who would own Trump the politician if he hadn't inherited many millions of dollars from his father to build a business that made him financially independent today? Between the two of them, Trump and Cruz, who's the self-made man? Independence from donors is no trick when you started your career with a pile of money and then eagerly handed cash to crony politicians in both parties to make it grow. When Trump fans say he has balls, they're right. It takes brass balls for this guy to accuse anyone else of cronyism.
Oh, by the way: Apparently, he's now a hit in some sectors of the GOP donor class. Let's see how long his insistence on not taking big money from the Chamber of Commerce set lasts. Exit question: Where's Sarah? Wasn't she supposed to be there with him today?
From your link:
“...The 464 pages of records were prepared in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Another request back in 2011 for correspondence from Trump to Clinton or his aides yielded no records, according to the requester.
By law, the current president and former president involved have 60 business days to review the records and consider a possible assertion of executive privilege. Barring such a development, or a request for an extension, the records should be available to the public beginning in April....”
If there is anything potentially damaging to Trump it might explain why Ted Cruz is suddenly worse than Clinton.
If there is anything that damaging, it pretty much guarantees that a Trump Justice department will never prosecute Clinton.
Cover up what?
From Your renamed link:
Heidi Nelson Cruz bio
Claremont McKenna College ^ | Robert Day School Board of Advisors
Cruz, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics and international relations from CMC in 1994, is a managing director in the Private Wealth Management Group at Goldman Sachs, Texas. She and her two partners work with clients to implement high net worth portfolios across a range of investments and asset classes, including complex derivatives products, private equity, hedge funds, single stock risk management, U.S. and international equities, and fixed income.
Ms. Cruz began her career as an investment banker with JPMorgan in New York, focusing on international structured finance and subsequently on Latin America mergers and acquisitions.
In 2000, she served on the Bush 2000 Campaign in Austin as one of President George W. Bush’s three economic advisors. She also served in the Administration as the economic director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council at the White House, advising the President and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. She also is a former director at the U.S. Treasury Department and was special policy assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, then Chief U.S. international trade negotiator.
In addition to her private-sector work, Heidi served on the Board of Directors of Living Water International, dedicated to providing clean water and sanitation equipment in the developing world. Her publications include the book chapter, “Expanding Opportunity Through Free Trade,” in Thank You, President Bush; a chapter in Exchange Rate Policies for Emerging Market Economies; and a Harvard Case Study: “American International Group.” She also is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
After graduating from CMC, Ms. Cruz received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a master’s of European Business from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.
And no national secrets were exposed.
That we know of, anyway.
Anyone who thinks that the Cruz family didn’t get several “anal” exams by the powers-that-be who were opposing him in TX - and especially when he took it to a run off, aren’t thinking very clearly, actually, they’re spinning to help Trump.
Holy CRAP!!
Did he really say that? Cruz filing inaccurately is WORSE THAN WHAT HILLARY CLINTON did?????
I don’t care for any of these guys.
But even for Trump this is so over the top it’s freakin OUTRAGEOUS.
I’m furious. Not because Trump is trashing Cruz, but because anyone on the right would dare to compare the evil, conniving Hillary favorably to one of our candidates is so appalling it’s unbelievable.
FUDT.
Fact check. Cruz has never tried to hide it. He had to make disclosure to multiple places. He included everything in one required disclosure. He did not initially include everything in the other. But because it was openly declared in one place, it was obviously not hiding.
This guy Trump is a donkey’s a$$
Help Trumpettes!! We need to translate this from Trumplish to English for the rest us.
The clinton donor showing his liberalism
Btw, what banks finance the clinton donor’s businesses!
Trump was on Greta this evening saying that Ted Cruz claimed he didn't know he had taken out loans from banks.
Trump is a liar who will say anything to try to destroy anyone who stands in his way. And some evangelicals are seriously considering supporting this guy?
“Donald Trump has lined up three New York hedge funds, including money from billionaire George Soros, to invest $160 million in his Chicago skyscraper, a key piece in perhaps the largest construction financing in the city’s history, according to real estate sources and public documents.†- Chicago Trubune
Trump said because Cruz took out a loan from a bank that the bank owns him and he'll do whatever they want. I guess he feels this way because Soros owns him. He's projecting his situation on Cruz.
ROFLOL!!!
Of course I don't own this circus or the monkeys.
Why wouldn't he just go to the Texas Savings and Loan or something? To avoid the APPEARANCE of impropriety? Perhaps because he'd have to REPAY it in real dollars and not political favors?
Fighting the mosque does not absolve him of his Alinsky tactics. Identify, personalize, freeze, whatever. He knows damn well when he never fails to mention Goldman Sachs that he is stirring up the anti semites.
Doesn’t matter what Trump says.
Just point out one inconsistientcy and you now get a bunch of things like “Ted didn’t know he took out a loan.” Of course Cruz knew he took out a loan. “ Cruz is worse than Hillary”.
Really? On what planet?
So if Zuckerberg, or Warren Buffett, or Some other billionaire had a recent conversion to being a “Nationalist” in the last few years, we should all stop and vote for them, too?
Hey, why not, they are all successful businessmen, “rich” and “winners”.
Is Trump for a level playing field, so other Americans may achieve his “greatness”, or does he support government subsidies, like ethanol.
You decide.
You might have wanted Trump to shut up about Goldman Sachs, but primary vetting makes conservatism strong ...
Campaign Watchdog Group Files FEC Complaint Cruz Failure To Disclose
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3386446/posts
If this filing is not bogus, then it goes to show the importance of vetting the top two candidates during a primary. Better to clear the air and get past desperate, failed spin BEFORE the nomination.
Thank you.
But it is the quotes reg. Mrs. Cruz that matter most. So far, I haven’t seen any quotes that draw serious blood.
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