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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Not even subtle: Trump used National Enquirer to smear his opponents, court testimony confirms

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Plus, 'Incarceration is an option': Trump appears to want the judge to throw him in jail

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0:00.0

In May of 2016, you could find this bombshell on newsstands and at the supermarket

0:07.3

checkout in your local grocer.

0:09.7

It was everywhere.

0:11.0

Ted Cruz's father linked to JFK assassination. Top US spy exposes

0:16.7

presidential race bombshell. The blood, the mission, the blood money, the mission, and

0:22.4

the cover up.

0:24.2

Though there was blood too.

0:25.6

That was the cover of the National Inquirer, alleging that the father of Senator Ted

0:29.6

Cruz had been handing out communist propaganda with Lee Harvey Oswald a few months

0:35.1

before Oswald killed JFK which could only mean that Ted Cruz's father was

0:39.8

somehow involved with John F. Kennedy's assassination.

0:44.1

It was a stretch.

0:46.6

But at the time, Trump was running against Cruz

0:50.1

for the Republican presidential nomination.

0:52.4

Now, Trump was already well on his way to becoming the party's nominee,

0:56.6

but Ted Cruz was still hanging on,

0:58.8

and he was refusing to leave the race much to Trump's vexation.

1:05.0

And once the Inquirer came out with a conspiracy involving Cruz's dad,

1:09.0

Donald Trump wasted no time promoting it.

1:12.0

By the morning of May 3rd Trump was calling in to his favorite

1:16.2

morning show.

1:17.2

His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being, you know, shot.

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