Trump defends tying Ted Cruz’s father to JFK killer

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defended his decision to suggest that Rafael Cruz, the father of his former rival Sen. Ted Cruz, had ties to the man who killed John F. Kennedy.

“It was a major story in a major publication,” Trump said Wednesday on ABC, referring to a National Enquirer claim that Rafael Cruz was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy’s killing. “All I did was refer to it.”

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