The billionaire warned Cruz he would “spill the beans on your wife” after an anti-Trump group ran an ad in Utah featuring a picture of Trump’s wife, Melania (above), from a photo shoot that ran in a magazine more than a decade ago. Your next first lady.
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Trump has also secured endorsements from his former rivals, including Ben Caron and Chris Christie – both of whom he previously butted heads with on the campaign trail.
Trump made the attack in a tweet just before midnight. The photo of Trump’s wife is glamorous, while Cruz’s wife appears to be snarling.
The GOP frontrunner took to the social media site on March 22 after Cruz referenced Trump’s wife in an ad. There was a police report in Austin in 2005 about how she was sitting by a busy highway and the officer determined she “was a danger to herself”.
But in a campaign in which Trump’s outrageous tirades aimed every which way have done him more good than bad, it’s possible the high road is no longer the safest bet.
Stone, who remains a confidante to Trump, included a link in the tweet to a column he wrote for the Daily Caller last week that accused the Cruzes of having “a sometimes troubled relationship” and accused the presidential candidate’s parents of having a “troubled marriage… plagued by alcohol and infidelity”.
A reporter later asked if bringing Heidi Cruz into the conversation was out-of-bounds, given the fact she has campaigned for him, sometimes on her own, across the country.
Even though no evidence has emerged connecting Cruz himself to the super PAC, Trump’s Twitter-shaming, showing no distinction between the two, could
still win over sympathizers, said an expert.
“It reveals a lot about character, a lot about class that Donald’s instinct is to try to attack my wife and sully her, and you know that should be beneath Donald, but you know, Chris, the reason he’s doing that is because he had a very bad night last night, he got clobbered in Utah”, Cruz told CNN’s Chris Cuomo Wednesday.
“You have to be able to live above the fog”, says Swanee Hunt, the former U.S. ambassador to Austria who is an expert in conflict resolution. “And we are really excited today about the incredible results from yesterday”.
How did she feel when she saw it? “You probably know by now that most of the things Donald Trump says have no basis in reality”.
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Did she think that candidates’ spouses should be off limits?
