Heidi Cruz on Trump’s threat to ‘spill the beans’: ‘No basis in reality’
Their war of words has descended into a war of wives.
Heidi Cruz responded Wednesday to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s threat to “spill the beans” on her — by dismissing it as not founded in reality.
“You probably know by now that most of the things that Donald Trump says have no basis in reality. So we are not worried in the least. We’re focusing on our campaign, and we are going to continue to do that,” she told reporters while campaigning for her husband in Wisconsin.
Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had traded sharp tweets Tuesday after an ad by the anti-Trump super-PAC Make America Awesome featuring a nude photo of his wife, Melania, made the rounds on the Internet.
In retaliation, Trump, assuming the Cruz campaign was behind the ad, tapped out a tweet threatening to reveal some unnamed but damaging information about Cruz’s wife, Heidi. And it all went down as voters hit the polls for “Western Tuesday” primaries and caucuses in Arizona, Idaho and Utah.
Heidi Cruz, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. (Photo: Rich Hein/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
“Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!” Trump tweeted late Tuesday.
The picture in question comes from a photo shoot that Melania Trump did for British GQ in 2000 during her days as a professional model. It shows her lying naked on fur while staring seductively into the camera.
In its latest incarnation, the photo bears the following caption: “Meet Melania Trump. Your next First Lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”
Cruz fired back that he had nothing to do with surfacing, altering or disseminating the photo. He called the billionaire businessman “#classless” for suggesting he would share secrets about his wife.
Cruz tweeted, “Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought. #classless”
The ad featuring Melania Trump’s sexy picture was actually part of a campaign to turn Mormon voters away from Trump by Make America Awesome.
According to NBC News correspondent Hallie Jackson, a Cruz campaign aide said the senator was irritated to the point that he himself typed out the tweet calling Trump a coward.
On Wednesday, Trump said, "Lyin’ Ted Cruz denied that he had anything to do with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania. That’s why we call him Lyin’ Ted!”
