[Hoot Gibson]

You sidestepped it again, that's fine with me. All I can tell you is your eyes and ears are telling you things which mine do not.

As of this morning maybe Cruz did step up, I have not seen that yet. If he did condemn the actions of the protestors in question this morning, for everything I could dig up on it, he would have done so for the first time. There was no repeating of earlier statements unless he once again used it as a segway into another assault on Trump. The link I put up clearly shows him tearing into Trump and judging him by placing the blame and the resultant foment directly on Trump's shoulders. A case of political opportunism if I ever saw it. All this went down only yesterday and what I heard Cruz say was said last night. And you are in denial if you think those protests are not organized by Trump opponents.

Thus the protests you have characterized as spontaneous and involving a "few protestors" is a bit disingenuous and the protests in particular are about as innocuous as the attacks in Benghazi. I saw your clip of Cruz dealing with the Code Pink protestors the first time you put it up a couple of months ago, and though I could appreciate your enthusiasm, if you think that method would work on the type of people who've disrupted the Trump rallies I would disagree.

What, no admission that you were wrong about Trump doing nothing to incite violence among his supporters? The clips that I posted were not intended to be comprehensive. Taunting protesters as they are escorted away from or dragged away from Trump events are a routine part of his rallies. Telling supporters to knock the crap out of protesters and promising to pay their legal expenses for doing so clearly crosses the line of civilized behavior.

You implied that Cruz was using his legal skills to avoid technically committing libel against Trump. Whether you like it or not, both Cruz and Rubio made valid points about the atmosphere that Trump's rhetoric creates at his events. That does not make the protesters' actions right, but it does make your assertion that Trump is blameless unsupported by facts and your implication that Cruz's statement flirted with libel wrong.

Also, I never described the protests as "spontaneous," so please stick to creating your own claims and I will compose mine. There is no doubt that at least some of the protests are being carefully planned and executed, but Trump's antics unnecessarily divert attention away from the protesters.