Donald Trump said Tuesday that it’s a “disgrace” that Ted Cruz’s father is warning of a biblical disaster if the country doesn’t put his son in the White House.
“I implore, I exhort every member of the body of Christ to vote according to the word of God …,” Rafael Cruz said in a new video. “And I am convinced that man is my son, Ted Cruz. The alternative could be the destruction of America.”
“I think it’s a disgrace that he’s allowed to do it. I think it’s a disgrace that he’s allowed to say it,” Trump said early Tuesday, noting that evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. has endorsed him.
“You look at so many of the ministers that are backing me, and they’re backing me more so than they’re backing Cruz, and I’m winning the evangelical vote,” Trump added. “It’s disgraceful that his father can go out and do that. And just, and so many people are angry about it. And the evangelicals are angry about it, the way he does that.”
Trump also accused Cruz’s father of being with Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, before the shooting.
“What was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, before the shooting. It’s horrible,” Trump said of the allegations, reported by the National Enquirer.
A Cruz spokesman has since called those allegations “another garbage story in a tabloid full of garbage.”
