Trump Knocks ‘Panicked’ Cruz For Using Comms Director ‘As A Scape Goat’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Beaufort, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

This post has been updated.

Donald Trump on Tuesday morning bashed “disloyal” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for forcing his communications director to resign after he circulated a fake video of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).

Cruz communications director Rick Tyler posted a video to Twitter and Facebook with subtitles showing that Rubio said there are “not many answers” in the Bible. However, Rubio’s campaign published another version of the video in which Rubio tells a Cruz staffer holding a Bible, “All the answers are in there.”

Tyler deleted the video from his social media accounts and apologized to the Rubio campaign. On Monday, Cruz said that Tyler is a “good man,” but asked him to resign.

“We are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate for President,” Cruz said.

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  1. Trump, of all people, knows the classy way to fire someone.

  2. Ted Cruz: “The Buck Stops (With my Communications Director)!”

  3. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Wow, how can a guy who eats and breathes Twitter make the Joe&Mikka’ed media believe he’s innocently and unknowingly retweeted material from Nazis and white supremacists? It’s true. Unbelievable.

  4. Avatar for jcs jcs says:

    Trump is the bigot and unedited mouth but so many times hits the nail on the head. He breaks the Republican bigoted mold by not being coy enough with his bigotry and going after his Republican rivals with a modicum of truth. Hench his followers like his direct talk. Cruz did scape goat his staffer. No One here thinks Cruz is anything but sleazy. Trump calls it.

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