‘It was a mistake’ says Trump in rare expression of regret over re tweet of Cruz wife
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Donald Trump says he regrets retweeting an
unflattering picture of the wife of arch-rival Ted Cruz, in a rare act
of contrition from the Republican presidential front runner.
Trump is in pole position to seize the
Republican nomination but is doing poorly nationwide among women voters,
polls show, and faced stern criticism from all sides in recent days
after saying women who have illegal abortions should be “punished”,
before he backtracked.
The billionaire property mogul has been engaged
in an increasingly personal war of words with Cruz, his nearest
challenger in the Republican race for the White House, that even drew in
their wives.
An anti-Trump political group unveiled a
controversial campaign ad ahead of votes in Arizona and Utah last month
that used a GQ magazine photograph of Trump’s wife Melania lying naked
and handcuffed to a briefcase.
Cruz denied being behind the advert, which was accompanied by the words: “Meet Melania Trump, your next first lady”.
Trump then retweeted a photo compilation of an
unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife Heidi next to Melania, a
Slovenian-American jewellery designer and former model.
“Yeah, it was a mistake,” Trump said of the
retweet, talking to The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, in a
column published Saturday.
“If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.”
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