This the, "I've always wanted to kill another president" look. pic.twitter.com/QPxxNqDOl5
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) May 3, 2016
This is 2016, and #LeeHarveyOswald is trending on Twitter, because such is the state of the Republican presidential campaign. Per Politico:
Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963…
“I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting?” Trump continued. “It’s horrible.”
Trump’s tangent followed his rebuke of Rafael Cruz using the pulpit to court evangelicals for his son.
“I implore, I exhort every member of the body of Christ to vote according to the word of God and vote for the candidate that stands on the word of God and on the Constitution of the United States of America,” Rafael Cruz said in a video clip aired by Fox News. “And I am convinced that man is my son, Ted Cruz. The alternative could be the destruction of America.”
Asked to respond, Trump called it a disgrace. “I think it’s a disgrace that he’s allowed to do it. I think it’s a disgrace that he’s allowed to say it,” he said, before touting his support from Jerry Falwell Jr. and other evangelical leaders.
“You look at so many of the ministers that are backing me, and they’re backing me more so than they’re backing Cruz, and I’m winning the evangelical vote,” Trump continued. “It’s disgraceful that his father can go out and do that. And just — and so many people are angry about it. And the evangelicals are angry about it, the way he does that.”…
Has anyone bothered to ask Rafael Cruz if he killed JFK? Maybe Trump could reassign his Hawaiian investigators onto the case.
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) May 3, 2016
Failgunner Ted promptly returned fire, per the LA Times:
… “This man is a pathological liar,” Cruz said. “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.”…
Cruz called Trump “a narcissist at a level that I don’t think this country has ever seen. … Everything in Donald’s world is about Donald.” Not only that, Cruz said, Trump is “utterly amoral. Morality does not exist for him.”…
For good measure, Cruz also called Trump a “serial philanderer.”
“And he boasts about it … describes his battle with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam,” Cruz added…
I actually heard @tedcruz just call @realDonaldTrump a "liar" but not denying HIS father knew & hung out with Lee Harvey Oswald-Ted???
— Sharon Andreas (@SharNeal) May 3, 2016
I can't believe the Zodiac Killer's dad helped Lee Harvey Oswald kill JFK!
— W. Axel Foley (@WAxelFoley) May 3, 2016
Me, I’m rooting for injuries. But the Sad! part — to quote one contestant — is that we all know where this will devolve, once Cruz has lost his final primaries…
Cruz last year: Trump is terrific #dealwithit
Cruz now: Trump is pathological, immoral.
Cruz in a few weeks: Time to put division behind us— Michael B Dougherty (@michaelbd) May 3, 2016
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