Bloomberg not my friend anymore: Trump.
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Businessman and leading Republican presidential contender Donald Trump on Friday threatened to sue Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for “not being a natural born citizen”.
Trump issued the threat in case the Texas senator “doesn’t clean up his act” and stop running negative ads against him, reported CNN.
“If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen,” Trump tweeted.
Trump has previously argued that if Cruz won the Republican nomination, Democrats would argue that the Canada-born Texas senator was ineligible for the presidency. Last month, Trump asked a rally if he should sue Cruz “just for fun” over the issue, reported CNN.
Trump also questioned the sincerity of Cruz’s faith, accusing his opponent of being “so dishonest.”
“How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?” the Republican front-runner tweeted. Trump also had called Cruz’s honesty into question in a tweet Thursday night.
“Lying Cruz put out a statement, ‘Trump & Rubio are w/Obama on gay marriage.’ Cruz is the worst liar, crazy or very dishonest. Perhaps all 3?” Trump said.
Trump and Cruz are in a tight race in South Carolina heading into the state’s primary later this month. Evangelicals are a key voting bloc in the Bible Belt state and Trump is leading with white evangelicals in the state, according to an NBC/WSJ/Marist poll last month.
Business Insider reported Trump has said he is probably no longer friends with fellow New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
“He was a friend of mine. As far as I’m concerned, he’s not a friend of mine anymore,” Trump said Thursday during a Fox Business interview.
Trump was responding to the former New York City mayor’s apparent jab at him earlier this week in the Financial Times.
Bloomberg confirmed his interest in a potential presidential campaign while saying the US public deserved “a lot better” than what it had been getting from the candidates.
“I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters,” Bloomberg said.
“I thought that was a nasty shot,” Trump said. “I assume it was taken at me. But when my friends say things like that — assuming it was meant at me — I no longer consider them friends. I knew Michael very well. And he was a friend of mine.”