Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused supporters of his Republican presidential rival Donald Trump of acting like “union boss thugs” in their effort to secure Trump’s nomination during a Wednesday CNN town hall.
The Texas senator was asked by host Anderson Cooper to respond to the comments of Trump’s newly crowned delegate-wrangler Paul Manafort, who accused the Cruz campaign of resorting to “Gestapo tactics” to win delegates ahead of the July convention.
“It is bizarre,” Cruz said. “Donald and his team, it’s almost like they are subjects in a clinical course in psychology. There are all sorts of different behaviors they display but one of them is projection. That the conduct they do, regularly, they accuse others of doing.”
As TPM previously reported, anonymous Trump backers have leaked the personal information of and sent death threats to the low-level Republican officials who serve as delegates to the Republican convention. The head of the Colorado Republican Party said he plans to bring a sheriff with him to the convention due to the volume of threats he has received.
“Violence doesn’t belong in democracy, and the Trump campaign encourages it over and over again,” Cruz told Cooper during the town hall.
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Does that help or hurt Cruz in PA?
He has already lost NY.
Trump: Of course. After I am done, I am shipping you back to Cuba via Canada.
Wow! Union Boss Thugs vs The Gestapo!!! Is this pay per view? Count me in…
Speaking of putting someone on the couch:
In 2007, Cruz’s legal team, working on behalf of then-Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a 76-page brief calling on the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to uphold the lower court’s decision… The filing noted, “The Texas Penal Code prohibits the advertisement and sale of dildos, artificial vaginas, and other obscene devices” but does not “forbid the private use of such devices.” The plaintiffs had argued that this case was similar to Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas’ law against sodomy. But Cruz’s office countered that Lawrence “focused on interpersonal relationships and the privacy of the home” and that the law being challenged did not block the “private use of obscene devices.” Cruz’s legal team asserted that “obscene devices do not implicate any liberty interest.”
Cruz’s office declared, "There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship."
Gah! Does anyone else out there have a reflexive recoil reaction any time they see a photo of this guy? He is just so viscerally repulsive both in body and spirit.