Dem Rep. Trolls Trump Over Release of JFK Files: Will ‘Ted Cruz’s Father Be Exposed?’ By Caleb Ecarma (mediaite.com) / Oct 21 2017
Remember that time Donald Trump parroted a half-baked, tabloid conspiracy theory claiming Ted Cruz‘s dad was somehow involved in the John F. Kennedy‘s assassination?
Well, Congressman Adam Schiff ‘members.
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff
After the president announced today that he would be making classified documents on the JFK murder publicly available, Schiff — a Democrat lawmaker from California — trolled the president over Twitter by asking if Cruz’s “father will be exposed” in the document
For those who have forgotten — because of all the equally crazier things that Trump has said since then — during the 2016 primaries, Trump accused Cruz’s father of being involved in the JFK assassination, a claim he brought up on multiple occasions.
Trump’s information on this harebrained allegation came from a National Enquirer story that featured a picture supposedly of Rafael Cruz with Lee Harvey Oswald. As the tabloid tells it, the two were dispersing reading material in support of then-Cuban dictator Fidel Castro prior to Kennedy’s Dallas murder.
The president’s actual comments on the alleged connection include, “[Cruz’s] father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being — you know, shot” and “I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting? It’s horrible.”
Despite a Cruz campaign spokesperson calling the story “garbage,” Trump never apologized for these ridiculous allegations and continued making them until the GOP primaries came to a conclusion.
I guess Schiff and the rest of us will have to wait with bated breath to see if the classified documents implicate Cruz’s dad or not.
PB/TK – Ya knew someone was gonna say it but would it have been funnier if said by a comedian?
