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?
This chubby guy with the bad hair surely is hateful. Without his father’s money, he wouldn’t have amounted to much.
He didn’t disclose it on the proper campaign disclosure form.
He obfuscated.
And since he’s a big time lawyer, he knew better.
And it’s worse...in Trump’s hyperbolic way of talking...because you expect that kind of thing out of Hillary.
Wow, Ted Cruz Mis-filed info on loans he repaid, that’s certainly worse than gun running to the mideast and leaving an ambassador and embassy staff to die in Libya.
How about this bizarre video?
I wouldn’t have pegged Cruz’s father as a dominionist, but there it is....
"Is Donald switching teams again? A while back he said he had been on the establishment team, but had flipped against them. Yesterday, he attacked Ted Cruz for daring to truthfully point out Mitch McConnell had lied to conservatives....."
Cruz is worse than Hillary ???!!! ... tRump has jumped the shark with me acting like this. This is something one would expect from a stinking liberal
Has he legally changed his name?
I thought it was Rafael Edward Cruz.
Isn’t this an official, legal form?
If Chump wants to play that way, Cruz should fire back taking about “Trump University”
When emotion occludes reason you get this non-sense.
Which is worse, a paperwork error OR a connection with George Soros
Is Trump A Soros Decoy?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3385156/posts
Hell’s katooter! The FEC hasn’t even ruled whether this loan was required to be reported yet or not. This was a personal loan secured by personal assets, not a loan to the campaign. The campaign was under no obligation to pay this loan back.
Cruz was obviously not hiding anything since he reported it on the Senate disclosure. At most he will need to file an amended form, if that.
RE: He didn’t disclose it on the proper campaign disclosure form.
So, you think it isn’t a filing error but a deliberate attempt to hide the loan?
But if he wanted to hide it, why would he have filed it with the Secretary of State in the first place?
He would have hidden it to ANYONE altogether if that were the intent.
And Trump is outright lying about the same loan, saying that it means that Cruz is "owned" by Goldman Sachs. Anyone who knows anything about finance knows what a margin loan is, and that Trump's statement is completely false. Didn't Trump attend the Wharton School of Finance? I think I heard that somewhere, once or twice.
“... a dominionist.”
I’ve watched “the sermon,” in its entirety. The man is making a big deal of Genesis 1:28, a verse in which the Creator instructs humanity to “have dominion” over the earth and its creatures.
“Dominion” may sound like a scary word. But God Himself instructs His people to exert it.
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