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Too good to check: Trump ready to invest $20 million to end Cruz’s and Kasich’s careers

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Posted by Fred 2016-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Texas is NOT going to accept a replacement that was "made in New York!?"

Posted by Percy McCoy7690 2016-07-24 00:24|| 2016-07-24 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 This buckeye says Kasich, yes. Cruz.... Maybe.
Cruz will do it to himself.
And I voted Ted.

Posted by jvalentour 2016-07-24 00:25|| 2016-07-24 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Dear Mr. Trump - please direct your energies towards the real enemies.

Posted by Raj 2016-07-24 00:47|| 2016-07-24 00:47|| Front Page Top

#4 A troubling fixation, very troubling.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-24 05:15|| 2016-07-24 05:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember all those people saying Cruz didn't have good reason's (Wife and Father slandered) for not endorsing Trump?

Yeah... I don't think they can hold it against him too much anymore after Friday morning's press conference.

Posted by Charles 2016-07-24 05:39|| 2016-07-24 05:39|| Front Page Top

#6 True rumors?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-24 06:34|| 2016-07-24 06:34|| Front Page Top

#7 This is so stupid it has to come from Bill Kristol and the NeverTrump deadenders.

Posted by regular joe 2016-07-24 08:16|| 2016-07-24 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Have any of our trolls returned for this post?

Anyone consider the man has better use of 20 mil between now and election day.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-07-24 08:43|| 2016-07-24 08:43|| Front Page Top

#9 His money -or- signalling his(Trump's) sponsors not to fund Cruz? Petty change compared to the various Soros projects.

Posted by magpie 2016-07-24 09:09|| 2016-07-24 09:09|| Front Page Top

#10 And J.R. Ewing may or may not take Sue Ellen out for a cheeseburger.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-07-24 10:14|| 2016-07-24 10:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Donald, spend your money on taking Hillary down. If you are not careful, she will slice and dice you. She's had far more experience in this arena than you--there are bodies across the world from Arkansas to the Mideast that are not around to testify.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-07-24 10:14|| 2016-07-24 10:14|| Front Page Top

#12 #11 - yep

Posted by Frank G 2016-07-24 10:29|| 2016-07-24 10:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Tis a moot point. Cruz’s and Kasich took a pledge to back the GOP candidate. Instead they pouted off like petulant college children to their safe spaces.

Carlson and Cruz where honestly intriguing to me. But after watching several Cruz speeches I was beyond baffled and the gross diodes of flat out lie that he poured out to his lower informed supporters. No insult here to the wonderful Burg supporters... And I liked the guy.

And remember the attack on Trump's wife came from a PAC member working out of Carly Fiorina's own office. Their was no call from the indignant Teddy to fire her staffer. He would have had to admit who she was working for.

Kasich? A man who can't even figure out how to chew with his mouth closed. Nice guy that even in his own rosy world but I'm willing to wager a healthy bet that the dead algae in my pond have a rational myriad more of function IQ that Ohio's answer to Lurch.

If you have wandering dogs you kennel them up.

Trumps musings over these two is likely a passing reflection on what to do with idiots. Don't know if I approve but to flippantly disregard why is to miss the majority of the mood of the largest voter turn out in GOP history.

Posted by Michael Mann 2016-07-24 11:30|| 2016-07-24 11:30|| Front Page Top

#14 It's a pendulum.
The harder he pushes them away now, while the memory is still fresh, the faster they will return in early October, dragging their advocates with.
I still hope for a Bernie swing as well.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-07-24 11:58|| 2016-07-24 11:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Off to a great start.

Posted by Iblis 2016-07-24 12:04|| 2016-07-24 12:04|| Front Page Top

#16 #17 Yes, I agree. It is a mute point.Every chance a rock is hurled about aimlessly. He said she said. Move along. I get the same every day from my liberal cousins. The Washington post is planting every negative it can every day. USA Today was also but suddenly a complete about face. I don't expect that to last. Circulation has dropped for both and prices have gone up. USA Today is going where the money is. Full page Trump just a few days ago (July 18th). This is a positive historic moment in American history. Enjoy the ride or lament and moan on the sidelines with Debbie Wassermann Schultz and Whoppi Goldberg. Hey, some on the Republican side will move to Canada with the Democrat's if Trump wins. Bye Bye....

Posted by Dale 2016-07-24 13:29|| 2016-07-24 13:29|| Front Page Top

#17 My contacts in Germany react the same as here regarding Trump. Trump is a achiever in a world of followers.

Posted by Dale 2016-07-24 13:59|| 2016-07-24 13:59|| Front Page Top

#18 FWIW, I concur with Michael Mann's comment. Also, would like to emphasize that the Bloomberg article, which reads like a cat bringing a rat in the house as a trophy, is sourced this way: "The person close to Trump’s thinking ...." That's about as weaselly worded as I can imagine, protecting from charge of libel. Easily a person who hates Trump, not on his staff, but psychically puts her/himself in Trump's frame of mind, supposedly, and, keying off passages from his extempore Friday, says or writes what the article claims to report.

Trump's point Friday was that Cruz attacked his wife. He did, see Mann above. Trump was seriously joking about PAC-ing Ted. "The person close to Trump's thinking" -- namely, anyone who saw the video -- decided he was just serious are reported out the same. Dishonest.

Tactically, now IS the time to forewarn political enemies so they are not emboldened, later, to snipe. I think that's what Trump was doing Friday at the presser from which this Bloomberg story was fabricated. And yes, when you have a bat, let potential opposition see you warming up with it. Cruz and Kasich are not even in Trump's league. They flatter themselves that their punching up at Trump, or threatening to, has merit. But they needed little demonstration and got one.

Posted by TopRev 2016-07-24 14:39|| 2016-07-24 14:39|| Front Page Top

#19 and, FYI, Michael "Gimme your guns" Bloomberg is endorsing the Hildabeest. "Firewalls of journalistic integrity"?

Ahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahhahhah

Posted by Frank G 2016-07-24 14:43|| 2016-07-24 14:43|| Front Page Top

#20 Republicans held their convention in Ohio and yet the governor of Ohio, who signed a pledge to support the nominee, couldn't be bothered to show up and support the nominee. Maybe he'd be more comfortable this coming week in Philadelphia. And as for Cruz...weasel.

Anybody remember what Harry Truman said? If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-07-24 15:16|| 2016-07-24 15:16|| Front Page Top

#21 Cruz walked into the kitchen and he told the chef his recipe sucks.

Cruz Sr has an amazing LEGAL immigrant story.

His son US Senator Ted Cruz said he did not authorize the Mrs Trump image. As mentioned above that seems to have come from Carly Fiorina.

To respond by attacking Cruz's wife AND father made any cooperative agreement TOTALLY null and void.

You make a deal with me and due to a misstep you knee jerk into slandering my immediate family I will never HONOR anything supposedly signed on the lines of mutual respect, which now no longer exists.

Still don't get it???

That just shows why everything stateside for this generation is a bloody mess.

Posted by Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 2016-07-24 19:18|| 2016-07-24 19:18|| Front Page Top

#22 AND if a higher power determines you need another 8 years of hell, there is nothing you can do about it.

Posted by Percy McCoy7690 2016-07-24 19:26|| 2016-07-24 19:26|| Front Page Top

#23 The most ironic thing is Trump tore up the pledge on live television back in March, yet people are still harping on about it as if Cruz/Kasich did it. Which just goes to show Trump knows how to set narrative I suppose.

Heres the link, minute long

Posted by Charles 2016-07-24 22:24|| 2016-07-24 22:24|| Front Page Top

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