1.Donald Trump knew Cruz’s speech text in advance.
2.Cruz told Trump two days in advance that he would not endorse him.
3.The speech itself congratulated Trump on winning the nomination, ripped Hillary Clinton, extolled freedom, and then told Americans to vote their conscience.
4.When Cruz gave the pre-approved speech clearly ripping Hillary and telling Americans to vote based on principle, Trump minions reportedly began whipping the crowd into boos. Paul Manafort reportedly “grinned and chuckled when asked by Mark Halperin if Trump aides encouraged boos of Cruz from the floor.”
5.Trump obviously knew what was coming, too, and entered the arena as Cruz concluded his speech, before Cruz was booed off the stage.
So, to summarize, Trump knew what was coming, apparently planned the boos, and planned to take advantage of the situation in order to vindictively rip open a Republican rift that hurts his own campaign, and cast Cruz as a traitor.
Then he lied about it.
And he did it all because he despises Ted Cruz, because he’s a petty man, and because he’s a stupid boor.
Here’s the amazing truth: had Trump merely instructed his fans to keep clapping throughout Cruz’s speech, it would have looked like the “suggested” endorsement that Team Trump had touted all day long. But Team Trump decided it was more important to throw Cruz out of the popular clique than to take the partial win. Cruz had to be humiliated for his failure to Kneel Before Orange Zod.
.....by BEN SHAPIRO
Yep, I saw it - he was booed off stage like a sniveling idiot - #nevercruzCruz was great. And if you need help with your aptitude problems, just ask. He wasn't booed off stage. Protesters that showed up to disrupt were booed.
When I think about it, you have no morals and are no Christian. And when I think about it, you trying to associate Trump with child abuse in that other thread means you have a sick twisted mind. Any man like you who drools in front of his computer for years posting about pedophiles and homosexuals is someone who needs to be forcibly placed in a psych ward.
Seriously? You are turning to leftist Yahoo for vindication?
Yep, I saw it - he was booed off stage like a sniveling idiot - #nevercruz
That's a bunch of crap. Nobody there is in any danger of anything. You post the worst sort of propaganda garbage. People like you are pathetic.Heidi Cruz had to be escorted out of the convention by security following husband Ted's speech
One Of Hillary Clinton’s DNC Delegates Literally Tried To Murder Someone, But Media Are Silent
When will media start focusing on the Democrat gun crime epidemic?
JULY 20, 2016 By Bre Payton
http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/20...tried-to-murder-someone-but-media-are-silent/
A Democratic National Committee delegate pledged to Hillary Clinton tried to murder her husband with a gun on Sunday, but the national media won’t talk about it.
Deanna Vicites, a 47-year-old Hillary Clinton delegate from Pennsylvania, was charged with attempted homicide after shooting her husband in the neck with a revolver over the weekend. The two admitted to authorities they had been drinking all day, and while Deanna initially told authorities it was a mistake, the district attorney said there was no way the shooting was an accident.
Democratic Party officials said the Clinton campaign would have to find a new delegate to replace her.
Killing someone isn’t the first time Hillary Clinton delegate Deanna Vicites committed a dangerous crime. In 2002, she pleaded guilty for conspiring to commit a burglary.
But the media won’t talk about the fact that a pledged delegate for Hillary Clinton literally shot someone earlier this week. Instead, they’re obsessing over a GOP delegate who hyperbolically suggested that Clinton “should be put in a firing line and shot for treason” for her role in the death of four Americans killed in Benghazi after she ignored multiple requests for increased security in Libya.
“Hillary Clinton to me is the Jane Fonda of the Vietnam,” said Al Baldasaro, a Trump delegate who is also a New Hampshire state representative. “She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi. She dropped the ball on over 400 emails requesting back up security. Something’s wrong there.”
Following the Benghazi attack, Clinton lied to the families of the victims about the true motivations of the terrorists — telling them that a video spurred the attack — when her own e-mail correspondence with her daughter revealed that Clinton knew the cause to be a pre-planned attack by radical Islamic terrorists.
While serving as Secretary of State, Clinton also trafficked top secret information on an unsecured, private email server — putting the lives of U.S. human intelligence assets at risk. Her “extremely careless” behavior is arguably far worsethan actions taken by others who have actually been jailed for treason.
But the media conversation isn’t focused on Clinton or her delegates who have done bad things. After all, why focus any attention on a pledged Hillary Clinton delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention who literally tried to shoot someone in the face over the weekend when you can focus on hyperbole from a Trump delegate who didn’t shoot anyone?
In my book that's a reason to support Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz said earlier in the campaign that he would endorse Trump if Trump won the nomination. The only reason Cruz chose to go back on that pledge is because Trump dissed Cruz's wife and claimed that Cruz's father was associated with Lee Harvey Oswald several months before the Kennedy assassination. If Trump had not said these things, Cruz would have endorsed him as he said he would.
Ted Cruz said earlier in the campaign that he would endorse Trump if Trump won the nomination. The only reason Cruz chose to go back on that pledge is because Trump dissed Cruz's wife and claimed that Cruz's father was associated with Lee Harvey Oswald several months before the Kennedy assassination. If Trump had not said these things, Cruz would have endorsed him as he said he would.
It's completely reasonable to expect that the other candidates will not slither so low as to attack and lie about one's family.
I agree, but Cruz was foolish to pledge to endorse Trump in the first place. He has no credibility in my book for that reason alone.
Insofar as the pledge, something about hindsight is 20/20.
People endlessly say that they hate politicians, politicians are liars & crooks, and they wish a non-politician would run. And when one does, one who is an amazing businessman and says what the sissys are afraid to say, look how he is defamed and maligned.The whole idea of Trump running for president was a train wreck from day one..........
The whole idea of Trump running for president was a train wreck from day one. That was obvious to me, and there is no way that I would have ever pledged to endorse him. That's as much foresight as it is presentsight and hindsight, of which Cruz apparently has none.