Did you see Trump double down on his crazy last night?
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Donald Trump doubled down on his baseless insinuation that a photograph published by the
National Enquirer shows Ted Cruz’s father with “crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast.”
Nonetheless, Trump proclaimed in a May 3 interview on
Fox and Friends that Cruz’s “father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being, you know, shot! I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous … And nobody even brings it up. I mean, they don’t even talk about that, that was reported and nobody talks about it. But I think it’s horrible, I think it’s absolutely horrible, that a man can go and do that, what he’s saying there.”
Trump later added, “I mean what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald, shortly before the death – before the shooting? It’s horrible.”
“All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the
National Enquirer, there’s a picture of him [Rafael Cruz] and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast,” Trump said. “I had nothing to do with it. This was a magazine that frankly in many respects, should be very respected. They got O.J. They got Edwards. They got this. I mean, if that was
The New York Times, they would have gotten Pulitzer prizes for their reporting.”
“Now, Ted never denied that it was his father,” Trump said in his post-convention remarks, adding later, “But they never denied. Did anybody ever deny that it was the father? They’re not saying, ‘Oh, that’s not really my father.’ It’s little hard to do. It looks like him.”
In fact, they have.
“This is another garbage story in a tabloid full of garbage,” Communications Director Alice Stewart told
McClatchy. “The story is false; that is not Rafael in the picture.”
“It’s ludicrous, it’s ludicrous,” Rafael Cruz
told ABC News on May 3. “I was never in New Orleans at that time.”
Ted Cruz
dismissed the
Enquirer story as “idiotic” and called Trump a “pathological liar” who is “utterly amoral” and a “bully.”
“Donald Trump alleges that my dad was involved in the assassinating JFK,” Cruz said. “Now, let’s be clear, this is nuts. This is not a responsible position. This is just kooky.”
So to sum up: despite Trump’s claim to the contrary, the Cruz campaign categorically denied that it is Rafael Cruz in the photo. And Ted Cruz called the
Enquirer story “nuts.” And there is still no evidence — at all — that the man in the photo with Oswald is Rafael Cruz.
Trump also claimed that Obama does not have a birth certificate. The man is a loon. Click to expand...