Donald Trump just off-handedly accused Ted Cruz of a federal crime
By Philip Bump April 6 at 2:04 PM
washingtonpost.com
So far, we've seen Donald Trump be gracious on election night once. That was the night of Feb. 1, after Trump unexpectedly lost Iowa to Ted Cruz. No one knew how Trump would react, and Trump came out and presented a new Donald. Calm, brief, gracious. Then, within a day or two, he started accusing Cruz of having stolen the election, setting up his long-standing critique of Cruz as "Lyin' Ted."After he lost Wisconsin on Tuesday night, it was the non-gracious Trump that appeared, in the form of a statement about how Cruz won the state.
There's a lot of bitterness and anger in there -- no doubt in part the product of having to still be slogging through random states in an increasingly desperate push to get to the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. That's got to be annoying to a guy who doesn't even have to show up in the studio to be interviewed on TV.
Hence the rant. But let's focus in on the assertion that floats in the middle of that muddy mess. "Not only was [Cruz] propelled by the anti-Trump Super PAC's spending countless millions of dollars on false advertising against Mr. Trump," it reads, "but [Cruz] was coordinating with his own Super PAC's (which is illegal) who totally control him."
Such coordination would indeed be illegal. And in a normal year, such a charge levied by one candidate against another would be stunning. In the year of Trump, as our Cal Borchers noted, it isn't.
It's important to explore this, so let's.
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