Maureen started her interview noting, “you could hear how hard it was for Donald Trump to say the words,” as he “apologized” for defaming Heidi. “Yeah, it was a mistake,” Trump told her. “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.”
After a Cruz supporter made an image insulting Melania Trump for not being first lady-like (it was an image of one of the model’s skimpy photoshoots), Trump mistakenly believed that Ted himself did it. Trump fired back by acting in his usual manner: not insulting someone himself, but retweeting something vicious. This time it was a side-by-side of a beautiful pic of Melania, with a less than flattering image of Heidi that read “no need to ‘spill the beans’ the images are worth a thousand words.
"@Don_Vito_08: "A picture is worth a thousand words" @realDonaldTrump #LyingTed #NeverCruz @MELANIATRUMP https://t.co/5bvVEwMVF8"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2016
“There are things about Heidi that I don’t want to talk about,” Trump told ABC’s This Week. “But I’m not going to talk about them. You can look, but I wouldn’t talk about them.” He later subtweeted about Ted: “That is some low level ad you did using a picture Melania in a GQ shoot. Be careful or I will spill the beans on your wife.”
Trump’s non-apology for sharing the photo, and for threatening Heidi, isn’t all that surprising. He told Anderson Cooper on 360 that Ted “started it,” so he’s moving toward a full apology soon! Let’s see if he starts taking responsibility for his other offensive actions.
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