Cruz has been profiting off Trump for months

Posted by | September 26, 2016 07:39 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Cruz rented Trump his donor lists for tens of thousands of dollars.

It took Ted Cruz four months and three weeks of “careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience” to declare publicly that he would vote for Donald Trump.

He made the decision to profit by selling his supporter list to Trump far faster than that.

Just six weeks after he dropped out – and more than a month before Cruz would dramatically snub the nominee at the Republican National Convention – the senator quietly began renting his vast donor email file to his former rival, pocketing at least tens of thousands of dollars, and more likely hundreds of thousands, that can be used to bankroll the Texan’s own political future.

Trump began paying to solicit some of Cruz’s supporters for campaign cash as early as June 17. “We need you to stand with Mr. Trump before it is too late,” read the initial Trump campaign missive. A second solicitation came the next day. Another came the day after that. All told, in the last three months Trump has emailed at least some segments of Cruz’s donor list more than 30 times.

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15 responses to Cruz has been profiting off Trump for months

  1. Budda September 26th, 2016 at 08:14

    Money talks…all the rest is BS

  2. Larry Schmitt September 26th, 2016 at 08:42

    I received a couple of solicitations from Trump. I crossed my name and address out and sent them back. At least I made them pay the return postage. Even the small victories count.

    • William September 26th, 2016 at 08:45

      If it’s postage paid, fill the envelope up with everything from coupons for hemorrhoid cream to old pop tart wrappers.

      • Larry Schmitt September 26th, 2016 at 08:49

        It wasn’t worth that much trouble. It was a “survey” and I gave all the “wrong” answers.

        • William September 26th, 2016 at 09:00

          I like to respond to those in a different language that I made up at that moment.

      • Warman1138 September 26th, 2016 at 13:54

        Or something organic that’s had all the nutrients removed.

    • Budda September 26th, 2016 at 10:45

      I reply: I thought he was so rich he was going to finance his campaign himself? And, release his tax returns.

    • chaserblue October 10th, 2016 at 23:45

      You can also pay 0.2￠ through PayPal. It costs them .30￠ to process it. Not that I’ve ever done that…

  3. oldfart September 26th, 2016 at 08:56

    There is no honor among thieves.

  4. halfwayin September 26th, 2016 at 10:40

    So has the MSM.

    • Larry Schmitt September 26th, 2016 at 11:13

      Les Moonves, the boss at CBS, admitted as much. A few months ago, he said, “The current system may be bad for the country, but it’s great for CBS.” They, and the individual stations, collect many millions selling ads to both parties. Good thing I don’t watch much TV. I miss most of them.

  5. robert September 26th, 2016 at 13:42

    Fox news has Ted beat by a mile

    All kinds of network $$ and plenty of fools to eat it up

  6. Warman1138 September 26th, 2016 at 13:58

    That’s why there were so many clowns on the bus in the beginning, it was all about making money, not about getting elected. Hmmmmm, all that fat campaign cash.

  7. amersham1046 September 26th, 2016 at 18:29

    Free enterprise at its scummiest (is that a word) level,

  8. StoneyCurtisll September 26th, 2016 at 21:27

    I’m torn between which one of theses sleazeballs are the slimiest…
    Trump or Cruz…
    both of them make me want to vomit.

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