Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has lashed out at rival candidate Donald Trump on the day of Indiana's primary, calling him a pathological liar, narcissist and bully after the front-runner linked Cruz's father to John F Kennedy's assassin.
"I'm going to tell
you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar. He
doesn't know the difference between truth and lies," Cruz told reporters
in a scathing indictment on Tuesday.
"He lies practically every
word that comes out of his mouth. And ... his response is to accuse everybody
else of lying."
In a television appearance
earlier, Trump linked Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, to Kennedy assassin Lee
Harvey Oswald, citing a report by National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid
known for celebrity gossip and alien sightings.
"You know, his father was
with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being - you know, shot. I mean, the
whole thing is ridiculous. What is this, right prior to his being shot, and
nobody brings it up," Trump said on Fox.
Republicans in Indiana might give
New York billionaire Trump an almost unstoppable advantage in his turbulent
journey toward the party's presidential nomination.
The real estate mogul holds a
double-digit polling lead in the Midwestern state over Cruz, a US Senator of
Texas.
Cruz denounced the Enquirer and
its chief executive, David Pecker, who has endorsed Trump, for claiming his
father, a Cuban immigrant to the United States, was pictured handing out
pro-Fidel Castro literature with Oswald in New Orleans in 1963.
"Yes, my dad killed JFK, he
is secretly Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in his back yard," Cruz said
in a sarcastic retort.
Originally published as Cruz unleashes fury at Trump
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