LF: Donald Trump threatens to sue 'totally unstable' Ted Cruz over 'lies' - and if Republicans don't intervene he could run as an independent

Title: Donald Trump threatens to sue 'totally unstable' Ted Cruz over 'lies' - and if Republicans don't intervene he could run as an independent
Source: Daily Mail Online
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Published: Feb 15, 2016
Author: Nikki Schwab
Post Date: 2016-02-15 19:35:06 by cranky
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Donald Trump said today he'll sue 'totally unstable' Ted Cruz over the senator's Canadian birth unless he receives an apology from the Texan for spreading lies about the billionaire's record.

Trump also pointed fingers at the Republican National Committee, saying that if the party's governing body doesn't intervene, that pledge he signed to support the GOP nominee is null and void, which could open the door for a Trump third-party run.

'One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him relative to the fact that he was born in Canada and therefore cannot be President,' Trump said of Cruz in a statement today, after spending his afternoon in South Carolina labeling the senator a liar more than a dozen times.

'Additionally, the RNC should intervene and if they don’t they are in default of their pledge to me,' Trump added.

Trump was angry over a number of attacks Cruz has made in recent days, from a new ad the Texas senator put out today, which uses footage from 1999 to show voters Trump's pro-choice past, to remarks Cruz made on the Sunday shows yesterday, remarking that Trump would tarnish the Second Amendment.

DONALD TRUMP'S 'RESPONSE TO THE LIES OF SENATOR CRUZ'

Ted Cruz is a totally unstable individual. He is the single biggest liar I’ve ever come across, in politics or otherwise, and I have seen some of the best of them. His statements are totally untrue and completely outrageous. It is hard to believe a person who proclaims to be a Christian could be so dishonest and lie so much.

Cruz said I would be appointing a liberal judge when in fact I will appoint a great conservative and I am the only candidate who has gone so far, at the debate, as to suggest two individuals I feel would best represent the conservative values we need to protect: William “Bill” Pryor Jr. and Diane Sykes.

Cruz says I am pro-choice, when in fact I am staunchly pro-life and have been for a long time. Like Ronald Reagan, on many issues, I have evolved.

Cruz says I am in favor of ObamaCare, when in fact I have spoken about repealing and replacing this disaster of a system at every speech throughout my campaign and since it’s inception. Meanwhile, Cruz was responsible for getting Bush to put in the judge that failed to vote against ObamaCare twice.

Cruz says I will try to take away your second amendment rights, when I am one of the strongest proponents of the right to bear arms and I say so in every speech that I have made for years. I am a proud member of the NRA and so are my sons.

Cruz has become unhinged and is lying with the hopes that his statements will go unchecked until after the election and he will save his failing campaign.

In Iowa, Cruz told thousands of Ben Carson voters that Dr. Carson had left the race and to instead vote for Ted Cruz. He apologized when the race was over. Likewise, his fraudulent voter violation form sent to Iowa voters. If Ted is going to continue to lie with such desperation, I have no choice but to fight back.

One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him relative to the fact that he was born in Canada and therefore cannot be President. If he doesn’t take down his false ads and retract his lies, I will do so immediately. Additionally, the RNC should intervene and if they don’t they are in default of their pledge to me.

I am the strongest on the borders and I will build a wall, and it will be a real wall. I am strongest on illegal immigration, strongest on ISIS, strongest on the military and I will take care of our Vets. I will end common core and preserve the second amendment. I will renegotiate our trade deals and bring our jobs back to our country. I am the only person who will Make America Great Again.

'And if Donald Trump becomes president, the Second Amendment will be written out of the Constitution because it is abundantly clear that Donald Trump is not a conservative,' Cruz said, adding that Justice Antonin Scalia's death and the Supreme Court vacancy if caused changed 'the entire contours of this race.'

'The time for the circus and reality show is over,' Cruz said.

The new ad, called 'Supreme Trust,' reminds voters that in 1999 Trump said he was pro-choice in an interview with the late Tim Russert.

The Cruz spot doesn't show the part of the interview when Trump says, 'I hate it,' talking about abortion, which showed movement on the issue to where Trump is running as a pro-life politician today.

Trump spent a large chunk of time on the stump today in South Carolina putting Cruz through the ringer.

'I've never met people like politicians, they are the most dishonest people I've ever met,' Trump remarked to supporters in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, earlier this afternoon.

'Jeb is just Jeb,' Trump said, holding off his complaints about the Bush for the time being. 'But this guy, Ted Cruz, is the most dishonest guy I think I've ever met in politics.'

Trump doubled down on his positions on abortion and the Second Amendment.

'I just want to tell you I'm pro-life,' Trump said, jokingly telling his audience that whatever they hear about the billionaire from Cruz, it's actually the opposite.

'The Second Amendment is my thing,' Trump huffed at another point.

Besides abortion and guns, Trump called attention to some of the shenanigans that happened in Iowa with Cruz's staffers telling handfuls of caucus goers that Ben Carson, another popular choice among evangelical voters, was on the verge of dropping out.

Cruz later apologized to Carson over the phone and again on the New Hampshire debate stage.

'What he did to Ben Carson in Iowa was a disgrace,' Trump said, adding that he was impacted too because Cruz was able to scoot ahead of him and win the Iowa caucuses.

Trump came back a week later with a victory in New Hampshire, but he was still bitter about what happened in Iowa.

'If Iowa had any guts, the people from the Republican party, which they don't, they should disqualify him from winning Iowa,' Trump suggested.

Trump encouraged his supporters to set the record straight, so that the billionaire wouldn't have to pay for advertising to counter Cruz's lies with just five days to go before South Carolina Republicans vote.

He also hinted that he might be considering backing out of the loyalty pledge that he signed and gave to the RNC.

He articulated a different reason to supporters – not because of Cruz, like he said in his statement, but because the candidates weren't getting their share of the tickets for the debates, which, in Trump's opinion, is what led to him being booed at the last two gatherings.

'The whole room is filled with special interests and donors, which is a disgrace for the RNC,' Trump alleged.

The debate's sponsoring parties divvy up the tickets and then the candidates take the rest, with the candidates getting the most they've seen on cycle for Saturday night's debate since only six Republicans are left.

Ted Cruz defended himself via Twitter suggesting that all he did was articulate Donald Trump's actual policy prescriptions

'The RNC better get its act together, because I signed a pledge and the pledge isn't being honored by the RNC,' Trump complained.

Moving on from his first event, Trump's campaign sent out the statement promising to sue Cruz over the senator's lies.

'Ted Cruz is a totally unstable individual,' it said. 'He is the biggest liar I've ever come across, in politics or otherwise and I have seen some of the best of them.'

Trump then held a press conference for reporters and said the same thing.

'He's an absolutely disgusting liar,' Trump said of Cruz.

'And he goes around saying he's a Christian? I don't know, you're going to have to really study that,' Trump said to reporters this afternoon.

Cruz took to Twitter to respond.

'You cannot simply scream "liar" when someone points out your actual positions,' he wrote, calling the trend 'curious' in a longer video message about the spat.

The Texas senator also said today at an event in South Carolina that he had never seen Trump so rattled.

Soon after, Trump called into CNN and said that was just not so.

'He doesn't mean that,' Trump said. 'He's says that just for effects. He's the one. He's an unstable guy ... he's just using that expression because he likes it and it's just ridiculous.'

'I'm not one to get rattled, believe me,' Trump said.