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"Supreme Trust" +
:60 ad announced Feb. 15, 2016, run in SC.
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Cruz: I’m Ted Cruz and I approve this message.
[Music]
Male Announcer:
Life. Marriage. Religious Liberty. The Second
Amendment. We’re just one Supreme Court Justice away from losing
them all.
Oct. 24, 1999 interview clip...
Tim Russert:
Would President Trump ban partial-birth abortions?
Trump: Well
look, I’m very pro-choice.
Tim Russert: But
you would not ban it?
Trump: No.
Tim Russert: Or ban
partial birth abortions?
Trump: No, I am
pro-choice in every respect.
Male Announcer:
We cannot trust Donald Trump with these serious decisions.
Notes: Features the
Oct. 24, 1999 clip seen in several other ads attacking Trump.
The Trump
campaign sought
to stop the Cruz campaign from running this ad, prompting this Feb. 17
press release...
Will air "Supreme Trust"
with
greater
frequency
HOUSTON,
Texas - Today at a press
conference, presidential candidate Ted Cruz responded to a ‘cease and
desist’ letter dated February 16, 2016 from Jeffrey Goldman, an
attorney representing Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. The letter
demanded that the Cruz campaign immediately stop running a campaign ad entitled “Supreme Trust”
featuring
Donald
Trump
currently running in South Carolina in advance
of the state’s Republican Party primary on
Saturday.
The
letter
was
addressed to Ted Cruz, Chad Sweet, the campaign’s
chairman and Jeff Roe, the campaign manger.
The
recent
death
of Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia left a vacancy on the nation’s highest court. Ted Cruz called on
the Senate not to confirm any nominees from President Obama but instead
to await the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, allowing the
voters to have a say in what kind of Justice would replace Scalia who
was a constitutional conservative. The Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell has pledged that he would not allow the Senate to confirm an
Obama nominee, effectively allowing the next administration to make the
nomination.
The 30-second
spot makes the case for how
consequential electing the right candidate for the White House, is
because the next president will fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court and as many as four
vacancies over his term. Those appointments will set the ideological
direction of the Court for a generation by nominating constitutional
conservatives or liberal activists Justices.
The ad begins with the words:
“Life, Marriage, Religious Liberty, the Second Amendment. We’re just one Supreme Court Justice away from
losing them all.” The ad continues with Donald Trump
in his own words including Mr. Trump answering a question by the late
Tim Russert about whether he would ban the controversial abortion
procedure known as partial-birth abortion where a late-term unborn
child’s life is taken just prior to birth. Mr. Trump, who was flirting
with running as a Reform Party candidate at the time, answers the
question by saying that he is “very pro-choice”. When asked directly if
he would ban the procedure, twice Mr. Trump says, “no” then goes on to
say that he is “pro-choice in every respect.”
The ad’s
announcers
says,
“We
cannot trust Donald Trump with these
serious decisions.”
The
Goldman
letter
sent
to the Cruz campaign insists that the ad stop running because the
Trump campaign is claiming that the ad is defamatory and meets the
definition of a libelous statement.
The
Cruz
campaign
disagrees.
A letter sent to Mr. Goldman in response says
the ad is not an attempt to
mislead the public. The objective of the ad is precisely the opposite –
to provide the voters of South Carolina with important and accurate
information so that they can make an informed decision when they go to
the polls.
The
Cruz
letter
goes
on to say that every statement in the ad concerning Mr. Trump’s
pro-abortion views comes from Mr. Trump’s own mouth.
According
to
the
Cruz
campaign, the point of the ad is that they do not believe
Mr. Trump’s recent campaign claim that he is pro-life and, more
importantly, the voters should not believe Mr. Trump either.
“Mr.
Trump’s
implausible
claim
that he is pro-life doesn’t meet a reality
test,” said Rick Tyler, a campaign spokesman. “His words and actions
simply cannot be reconciled. Mr. Trump last week said that Planned
Parenthood does do wonderful things, but supporting Planned Parenthood
is incompatible with holding the pro-life position Mr. Trump is now
claiming.”
Planned
Parenthood
is
the
nation’s largest abortion provider and was caught in
a “baby-parts selling” scandal last year.
Moreover,
the
Cruz
campaign
pointed to Mr. Trump’s history of generous political
contributions to help elect pro-choice candidates to office, including
Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo, Anthony Weiner and Rahm
Emanuel.
Tyler
went
on
to
say that there is ample and recent evidence casting grave
doubt about the truthfulness of Mr. Trump’s campaign claims that he is
truly pro-life.
Tyler
questioned
the
Trump
campaign’s demand that the voters not be allowed
to hear what Mr. Trump himself has said or know what Mr. Trump has done.
The
Cruz
campaign
said
that based upon these facts it will not pull the the ad because it is accurate and
factual whether Mr. Trump and his army of lawyers agree or not.
In
fact,
they
now
plan to air the ad with greater frequency.
____
According to the original Feb. 15 press release...
Today the Cruz for
President campaign launched a new TV ad, "Supreme Trust", highlighting
the importance this election has on determining the future makeup of
the Supreme Court. If conservatives elect a Republican with a past
liberal record, or with no record of actually fighting judicial
activism or defending the principles of the Constitution, we risk the
further erosion of our constitutional liberties.
In the ad, it shows Donald Trump speaking with Tim Russert, defending
his liberal position on abortion. Trump says that he would not ban
partial birth abortions and that he is "very pro-choice."