On Monday, Liz Mair’s Make America Awesome super PAC – a super PAC
totally unaffiliated with the presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz
(R-TX) – ran a Facebook ad that looked like this:
Trump immediately responded on Twitter by targeting Cruz’s wife:
Cruz fired back:
Trump concluded:
Trump concluded:
Trump is apparently deeply offended by super PACs attacking his
wife’s nude modeling career – so offended that he’s ready to “spill the
beans” on Heidi Cruz. Here are five reasons that’s absurd.
1. The Super PAC Has Nothing To Do With Cruz. Liz
Mair’s super PAC has no relationship with the Cruz campaign. Until the
Trump blowup, they’d raised a grand total of $20,000. Trump granted them
a multiple of that media attention. Mair revels in the attention,
obviously, and has fired back at Trump. But Trump’s really just itching
to attack Cruz, so he makes things up and states them as fact.
2. Trump Has Attacked Other Candidates’ Wives. Trump acting shocked and appalled at political attacks on his wife is rich, given this tweet about Jeb Bush long ago:
Trump deleted that Tweet, but refused to apologize to Jeb! on stage during a nationally televised debate.
3. Trump Has Attacked Other Women For Magazine Pictures. Trump playing “
hot-house flower” over someone criticizing his wife’s magazine photos is rich, to say the least. Here’s Trump on Megyn Kelly in January:
So, yeah.
4. Melania’s Modeling Career Says Something About Trump.
A man’s wife says something about him. I am married to a doctor; I
married her primarily because we shared values, secondarily because she
is brilliant, thirdly because she is fun, and finally because she is
beautiful. Here’s what
Trump said
about meeting Melania in 1998: “I saw Melania and I said, ‘Who is
that?’ She was a very successful model. She was terrific. I tried to get
her number, and she wouldn’t give it to me.” Melania continued the
story: “He came to the party with a date! I had heard he was a ladies’
man, and so I said, ‘I’m not one of the ladies.’ He said later that he
sent her to the ladies’ room so he could get my number. I was like, ‘Oh,
what a sneaky way!’” Melania told
People magazine she liked Trump’s “sparkle” and took his number.
Trump,
by the way,
was still technically married to Marla Mapes. Trump routinely called
Melania “my supermodel.” Melania told Howard Stern in 2000, “We have
incredible sex at least once a day. Sometimes even more.” Trump told
Stern about Melania looking good in a “very small thong.” Melania’s nude
modeling history isn’t some shameful part of her past. It was her chief
appeal to a man with a long history of womanizing and misogyny.
5. Heidi Cruz’s “Spilled Beans” Say Nothing About Cruz. Presumably,
the spilled beans to which Trump refers are twofold: Heidi’s
relationship with Goldman Sachs (fair) and a police report about her
from 2005, when the Austin Police Department reportedly found her
“sitting on the ground near the MoPac Expressway with her head in her
hands, and no sign of a vehicle nearby.” The police report described
Cruz as a “danger to herself.” An adviser to Cruz told
BuzzFeed,
“About a decade ago, when Mrs. Cruz returned from DC to Texas and faced
a significant professional transition, she experienced a brief bout of
depression. Like millions of Americans, she came through that struggle
with prayer, Christian counseling, and the love and support of her
husband and family.”
Heidi Cruz reportedly decided not to speak publicly about the issue,
according to BuzzFeed, because “she didn’t want to minimize the struggle
of those who suffer from depression their entire lives by trumpeting
her own happy ending.” If this is the “spilled beans,” it has nothing to
do with anything. Depression is a clinical condition, and suffering
from a clinical medical condition says nothing about that person’s
spouse, obviously.
Donald Trump playing victim with regard to this Melania ad is weird. His
decision to target Heidi Cruz in response, however, is more than weird –
it’s vicious. But we’ve come to expect that from Donald Trump.
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