Donald Trump Brushes Off Ted Cruz’s RNC Diss: ‘No Big Deal!’

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Not long after joining running mate Gov. Mike Pence on stage at the Republican National Convention Wednesday, Donald Trump tweeted that although Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) didn’t honor the party’s pledge to back the nominee, he knew it was coming.

The GOP nominee tweeted:

Cruz ended his RNC address without a formal endorsement of Trump, which sparked hostile heckling and prolonged booing from the crowd.

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  1. “Well, In this particular election year, that by definition can’t be Hillary Clinton,” Gingrich said. “In a very strange way for a guy who is a Princeton-Harvard graduate, he backed into, ‘you have to be for Trump’ because by Ted Cruz’s own standard there is no other candidate who fits the criteria Ted Cruz set-up.”

    and just like that Cruz just became Brutus…

  2. Better start recruiting a coterie of former beauty pageant contestants to act out each day’s Presidential Daily Briefing in bikinis, because apparently Trump is unable or unwilling to read words that are put in front of him.

    He will reliably lie about it later, though.

  3. Avatar for jcs jcs says:

    During a mere 3 days, Trump missed two big disasters that a competent person would have seen coming-Melania’s plagiarism and the “odious weasel’s” blatant betrayal. Both by not reading what was readily available to him. And he could become the President.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    This has to be fake…it’s all just too outlandish.

    Even Vince McMahon is shocked by this. I mean who’s the heel now?? And who’s the baby face?? I’m so confused!!

  5. So Trump planned all this? Made sure the story of the day is “Cruz pisses all over Trump”? That is pure genius!

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