Donald Trump threatens to 'spill the beans' on Ted Cruz's wife over Melania ad
The race for the Republican nomination has devolved into a war over wives.
Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday evening that he would "spill the beans" on GOP rival Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, over an ad using photos from Melania Trump's photoshoot with GQ.
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The problem? Those ads didn't come from Cruz's campaign. They were released by the anti-Trump super PAC Make America Awesome, run by Republican strategist Liz Mair.
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According to BuzzFeed News, the ads featuring Melania Trump are being promoted on Instagram, exclusively to Mormon women.
Mair took credit for the ads in tweets on Tuesday night.
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Mair also suggested that Trump's campaign has been "pushing around rumors" that Heidi Cruz -- who took a leave of absence from her executive position at Goldman Sachs to help her husband seek the White House -- was a "criminal" and mentally ill.
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Heidi Cruz struggled with depression, her husband wrote in his book A Time For Truth. In one August 2005 incident first reported by BuzzFeed News, Cruz was found by Austin police sitting feet from traffic on the side of the road. A police officer determined that Cruz was a danger to herself, according to the police report, and transported her to an unnamed facility.
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Amanda Carpenter, a former communications director for Ted Cruz's Senate office, defended Cruz, saying that the Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate "is not going after Trump's wife."
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Cruz's campaign tweeted on Tuesday night that they had nothing to do with the attacks, calling Trump "classless" for threatening to attack the Texas senator's wife.
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The photos were taken more than 15 years ago, but GQ repromoted them earlier this month.
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Juana Summers is Mashable’s Political Editor, directing coverage of the 2016 presidential race. Before joining Mashable, she covered Congress and political news for NPR. Juana reported on national politics, including the 2012 presidential race for POLITICO. She has also reported on defense policy and veterans issues on Capitol Hill. Juana got her start in journalism covering Missouri politics for outlets including the Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, KBIA-FM and the Columbia Missourian. She is a former Online News Association board member and a co-founder of the Journalism Diversity Project. Juana is a Kansas City native and an alumna of the Missouri School of Journalism.
