Hillary Clinton on Friday morning defended New Yorkers from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who has recently tried to attack Donald Trump for embodying “New York values.”
Just this once, Trump’s right: New Yorkers value hard work, diversity, tolerance, resilience, and building better lives for our families. -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 15, 2016
Cruz recently tried to distinguish himself from Trump by noting that the real estate mogul has “New York values,” and the Texas senator elaborated on his definition of those values during the Thursday night Republican presidential debate.
“Everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro-gay marriage. Focus [is] around money and the media,” Cruz said.
Trump hit back at Cruz by describing how New York City residents reacted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
“I’ve never seen anything like it. And the people in New York fought and fought and fought, and we saw more death and even the smell of death—nobody understood it,” Trump said during the debate. “And it was with us for months. The smell. The air. And we rebuilt downtown Manhattan, and everybody in the world watched, and everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers, and I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made.”
“Just this once, Trump’s right.” I bet she gagged a little as she wrote that.
You forgot to include Hillary’s subsequent tweet on the subject:
“As a friend of mine from New York City said, ‘Ted Cruz is a fuckin’ douchebag.’ - H”
I gotta say Cruz outdid his usual scurrilousness with his veiled anti semitism added to the mix. What does he mean re New York being the center of “money and media” but “New York Jews?” This is a not too subtle ploy to remind his evangelical base, many of whom are anti Semitic, that Trump comes from a “Jewish place” not middle America.
Ted Cruz is running to establish a Christian Caliphate in the US along with his own twisted interpretation of the Constitution as scripture.
Trump is a buffoon looking for attention and constant ego-stroking and doesn’t realize (or care) who he hurts in the process.
Cruz is a cold, calculating, sociopath looking for POWER and is using religion as his weapon. He is fully willing to climb over any size pile of dead bodies to achieve it because he has been told his entire life that HE is “The Savior”. HE is “The Messiah”, and he actually believes it.
Cruz is far more dangerous than Trump.
In Godwin terms:
Trump = Mussolini
Cruz = Hitler
Even if Ted Cruz wins Emperor of the Universe, he’ll still have no friends, and he’ll still be insecure about belonging. He clearly is trying to sell him himself as the most American of all, because maybe, just maybe, if enough people believe it for him, he’ll believe he fits in here, somewhere.