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The Rubio campaign cried foul on Thursday when a digitally altered image on a Cruz campaign website appeared to depict the Florida senator shaking hands with President Barack Obama, in an attempt to explicitly link the two.

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A photo-shop that depicts something that didn’t happen as portrayed, IS a ‘graphic lie’. As for all of the other alleged lies? Well, let’s just see how it plays out.

Meanwhile, I’ll continue to decline ‘moral instruction’ from those who pretend to be ‘arbiters of truth’, while they look away from the sh*t accurately reported below.

Also, who in TF do Republicans think they are kidding with these guys!?

Donald Trump campaigns Feb. 19 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, under the state flag.
GOP field gets down in the mud in South Carolina

The candidates hurl accusations of lying, Photoshopping and fake Facebook pages ahead of Saturday’s primary.

By Nick Gass

02/19/16 01:28 PM EST



South Carolina is known for its down-and-dirty politics, and this year’s GOP field has been all too happy to throw some low blows.

The days leading up to this Saturday’s primary have been consumed by accusations of lying, Photoshopping, and a fake Facebook account, not to mention threats of lawsuits and — in a development that still managed to stun even in this presidential cycle — a war of words between the pope and Donald Trump.

The mudslinging was still in full swing on Friday as the candidates raced around the state for their final full day of campaigning before the voting starts in this critical contest that could further winnow the Republican field.

Trump, who has led from nearly wire to wire, again lashed out at Ted Cruz for what he characterized as the Texas senator’s lack of truthfulness. This time, however, the Manhattan businessman also had to answer for his comments about Pope Francis the previous day after the leader of the Roman Catholic Church suggested that anyone, including Trump, who advocates building walls instead of building bridges is “not Christian.”

Phoning in to NBC’s “Today” to start his morning, Trump was asked whether his criticism of the pope’s comments as “disgraceful” was at odds with his own questions of Cruz’s faith. In the span of a few seconds, Trump ticked through a list of intercampaign squabbles directly or indirectly related to his own.


“No I’m not. Ted Cruz told many lies, he just got caught in one. You’re going to be reporting in a little while one he did on Marco Rubio with the false ad that he put out, what he did to Ben Carson in Iowa,” he said. (Trump was referring to a fight between the Rubio and Cruz campaigns over a digitally manipulated image of Rubio shaking hands with President Barack Obama, and to the night of the Iowa caucuses, when the Cruz campaign passed along false information that Carson was exiting the race).
Trump returned to his previous line of thought, saying he is “not questioning” Cruz’s faith.

“I’m just saying that Ted Cruz holds up the Bible and then lies. He’s lied on many occasions, he’s been caught in almost all of them,” Trump said. He then brought up the mailers Cruz’s campaign sent in Iowa that appeared to be official state documents scolding recipients for not caucusing in the past and encouraging them to caucus for Cruz. Calling that tactic fraudulent, Trump gleefully mentioned that Rubio “came out the other day and called him an absolute liar.

He’s never seen anything like it, and I’ve never seen a politician do that.”

Friday was just the latest instance of Trump calling Cruz a liar, an accusation he escalated earlier this week by threatening to sue Cruz over a negative ad against him. The spot in question featured Trump saying in a 1999 “Meet the Press” interview that he was “very pro-choice,” and called into question his credentials as a conservative.

Cruz brought down the hammer on Wednesday, calling a courtroom-style news conference to challenge the Manhattan businessman to follow through with his threat to sue him over an advertisement. The former Supreme Court law clerk and former Texas solicitor general argued that a lawsuit over the ad would be frivolous and said he would relish the chance to depose the candidate himself.

Trump fired back later in the afternoon, writing that any lawsuit would be “legitimate,” including another long-standing threat to sue over the question of Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency as a natural-born citizen on the basis of his birth in Canada to an American-born mother. “Time will tell, Teddy,” he wrote. The Cruz team vowed to keep airing the spot, now “with greater frequency.”

Cruz is also neck deep in a nasty spat with Rubio’s team over a series of tactics in the run-up to Saturday’s vote, largely focused on issue of the candidates’ past legislative maneuvers in the Senate.

A Facebook page titled “Trey Gowdy Prayers,” claiming to be from the South Carolina Republican, published a post earlier this week that stated he would be switching his support from Rubio to Cruz. The Rubio campaign pounced on the page, and Gowdy. releasing a statement Tuesday afternoon calling on Cruz to denounce it. No link has been established between the Cruz campaign and the Facebook page, which was set up in 2014. But the Rubio campaign has seized on it, as well as the fact that South Carolina television stations pulled an ad from a pro-Cruz super PAC earlier this week, as proof that Cruz and his supporters are not running an honest race.

The Cruz campaign has made the same case about Rubio, recruiting former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to bash the Florida senator on distracting voters from his “own problematic record of supporting liberal issues.”

The Rubio campaign cried foul on Thursday when a digitally altered image on a Cruz campaign website appeared to depict the Florida senator shaking hands with President Barack Obama, in an attempt to explicitly link the two.

In a Fox News interview on Friday, Cruz communications director Rick Tyler fired back at Rubio’s remarks the previous night on the network with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who endorsed him earlier in the afternoon. Speaking to Megyn Kelly alongside Haley, Rubio said voters should know that Cruz’s campaign “is willing to make things up.”


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