“It’s because he has no choice”, Trump added.
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Cruz explained after his speech that he would not endorse Trump because the candidate attacked Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and suggested Cruz’s father was involved in President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. But I don’t want his endorsement. what difference does it make? The New York businessman shocked the political world this spring by consistently defeating more established rivals such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush, senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and OH governor John Kasich (pronounced KAY-sick) in primary elections and caucuses.
“Are you allowed to set up a super PAC, Mike, if you are the president, to fight somebody?” But it also comes as the media has moved on to Hillary Clinton’s impending selection of a running-mate, and ensures Trump will remain in the news through the weekend.
“Then when I saw – somebody tweeted a picture of Melania and a picture of Heidi, who I think by the way is a very nice woman and a very lovely woman”.
“Stand and speak and vote your conscience – vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution”, Cruz said in his speech Wednesday, pointedly not mentioning Trump in that appeal. And he assailed Cruz for changing part of his speech.
The Cruz detour came as Trump basked on what he said was a convention “filled with love”. She was making a lot of money, believe me. “I met him once”, Trump said. “It wasn’t that easy”, he said. What happened, you know somebody got booed the hell out of a place by thousands and thousands of people.
Trump defended his retaliatory retweet of an unflattering image of Melania and Heidi. I knew his speech. You know, we don’t want surprises, right?
Fast forward to Friday, Trump said he thinks Heidi Cruz is a “great person” and “the best thing he’s got going – and his kids, if you want to know the truth”.
“His father”, Trump began. “I think he’s a lovely guy, a lovely guy”. “All I did was point out that on the cover of the National Enquirer there is a picture of him and insane Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast”.
Trump once again re-told the theory, pointing out that “they never denied” that it was Rafael Cruz. It was a suggestion Trump first floated during their heated primary battle – one that cause Cruz to explode in anger at the real-estate mogul at the time.
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Trump also dredged up some of the nastiest moments of the 2016 primary, including incidents in which he retweeted a meme insulting Heidi Cruz and trumpeted a National Enquirer story questioning Cruz’s father’s ties to Lee Harvey Oswald.
