I said, “If you’d like to speak, speak”.
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But at a breakfast meeting on Thursday, Cruz said that he cannot endorse someone who criticized his wife and father and went so far to say that he could not be a servile puppy dog and pledge support to the billionaire.
He specifically chastised Cruz for changing his speech at the last minute, adding a sentence, “which could have been viewed as a nasty thing”, Trump said.
Moody was among Republicans supporting Free the Delegates, a movement at the convention that unsuccessfully tried to change rules so someone other than Trump could be considered for the Party nomination. “Apparently the Trump supporters, I guess he didn’t say enough, and only would have made them happy if they had written for him”. “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 handsome woman”.
“Folks, a lot of us are political people”, Trump said. “But if he did, it’s fine”, Trump said. I mean nothing earth-shaking.
“His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being shot”, Trump said on Fox News on May 3, referring to a National Enquirer story the Cruz campaign had denied and called “garbage”. “That he is the real face of the party and was really the one that did not endorse Trump”.
Moody says he’s glad Cruz spoke at the convention even though some critics have suggested the Senator should have stayed away.
In what should have been a feel-good victory lap the morning after his thundering acceptance speech, Trump instead defended his decision to retweet an unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and returned to wondering about possible links between Cruz’s father and President John F. Kennedy’s assassin.
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The no-longer-presumptive presidential nominee also thanked running mate Mike Pence, saying the IN governor has helped him strengthen ties to the Republican Party.
