Priebus: "What Trump said wasn't intended to be a factual statement."

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/rnc-chair-trump-never-said-story-connecting-ted-cruz-dad-to-jfk-assassination-was-factual-information/

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Sunday that presidential nominee Donald Trump never said his wild story connecting Ted Cruz’s father to the murder of Pres. John F. Kennedy was “factual information” and therefore shouldn’t be held against him.

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“He’s got a right to talk about whatever he wants to talk about, however, I don’t think he was ever saying this was some sort of factual information,” Priebus said. “It was something he referred to. He’s talked about it, he’s gotten off from it. As far as I’m concerned, we can move on from it.”

In May, Trump squared off against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), his former primary opponent for the nomination, saying in an appearance on Fox News’ morning show Fox and Friends that he read in the National Enquirer that Ted Cruz’ father Raphael Cruz was an intimate of Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot and killed Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

“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.

Trump said that Rafael Cruz was photographed handing out pro-Fidel Castro literature in the streets of New Orleans with Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.

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In other news, President Trump wants to make it easier to sue journalists for libel if they write bad things about him.

[liberal N proud]

1. Trump can say whatever he wants and it doesn't mean anything