Bloomberg
By Mark Halperin and Kendall Breitman
July 16, 2015
The Donald Trump-Ted Cruz love fest continues.
Trump,
the real estate mogul turned Republican presidential candidate, opened
up Thursday about his closed-door meeting with his nomination rival the
previous day at Trump's
New York office tower, calling the Texas senator “a great guy.”
“I
was very happy that he wanted to come up because I wanted to thank him
for backing me. It turned out we were both right and everyone else was
wrong,” Trump said in
a phone interview with Bloomberg.
“Could you imagine me signing a false document?”
Donald Trump
The
meeting, which Trump said lasted for about an hour, came after Cruz
said he saluted Trump for his outspokenness on U.S.-Mexico border
security and illegal immigration.
Trump has lost business and been condemned by other Republicans since
he made controversial comments about Mexican immigrants in his campaign
kickoff speech last month.
“And
then after that happened you had some real tragedies happen, from the
escape to Kate to so many other crimes that took place,” Trump said,
apparently referring to
the prison escape of a notorious Mexican drug lord and the death of a
San Francisco woman allegedly at the hands of an undocumented immigrant.
“And everybody's saying I'm right so it's always nice to be right.”
Cruz
said that the meeting was “delightful” and that he did not ask for
Trump's endorsement, according to CNN. A Cruz adviser told Bloomberg the
meeting was friendly and
Trump was very gracious. Asked what was discussed, the aide would only
the meeting covered a wide variety of topics.
Trump
also responded to MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, who Thursday on
Morning Joe questioned Trump's claim that he earned $213 million for 14
seasons of his reality-television
show The Apprentice.
“Could
you imagine me signing a false document?” Trump said. “Me? Right now
the most high-profile guy in the world. More Google hits than anybody in
the entire world by
a factor of 10.”
Trump
suggested that his earnings from the show are not only based on
on-camera time, but that he also got part of the program's revenue. NBC
declined to comment on Trump's
remarks.
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