INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2016 Cruz-Trump spat over wives takes nastier turn ‘I will spill the beans on your wife’

DANE, : branded Donald get ready and organized for the fall election.” Trump a “sniveling coward” as the feud Clinton carried California in the 2008 between the Republican presidential con- Democratic primary, when she was running tenders over their wives took a nastier turn. against then-Sen Barack Obama. Her hus- After an earlier and vague threat to “spill the band, former President Bill Clinton, carried beans” about Heidi Cruz, Trump stoked the the state in 1992 and 1996. spat on when he retweeted side-by- For the Republicans, the lurch into per- side images of Cruz’s wife, with an unflatter- sonal territory normally off limits in cam- ing grimace, and his wife, Melania, in a glam- paigns came as an anti-Trump super political orous pose. action committee ran an ad in primary states “No need to spill the beans,” said the cap- that features women reciting derogatory tion. “The images are worth a thousand comments made by the billionaire about words.” On Thursday, Ted Cruz, campaigning women. The ad was produced by Our in Wisconsin, was livid. “Leave Heidi the hell Principles, a group founded by a former Mitt alone,” Cruz said, speaking through reporters Romney campaign adviser who is trying to to Trump. “Donald does seem to have an help the Republican Party appeal to more issue with women,” he said. “Donald doesn’t women. like strong women. Strong women scare Donald.” Man arrested at rally Trump was set off this week when a group A man charged after rushing the stage at a that opposes him released an ad before the Donald Trump rally in Ohio is due in federal Utah presidential contest raising questions court. Authorities say 22-year-old Thomas about the propriety of Melania Trump DiMassimo, of Fairborn, Ohio, jumped a barri- becoming first lady. The ad showed a cade and charged at Trump during the rally provocative, decade-old magazine photo of at a Dayton International Airport hangar. He her when she was a model and before she was arrested and charged with illegally enter- married Trump. ARIZONA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign ing a restricted area. Trump wrongly attributed the ad to the rally in Tuscan. — AP An initial hearing is scheduled Friday Cruz campaign and warned on Twitter: “Be before a magistrate. The misdemeanor careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on cussion on keeping communities safe from mount an aggressive campaign across count carries a potential one-year prison your wife!” Trump has a substantial lead in radicalization and terrorism echoed criticism California and compete to win over “every sentence. DiMassimo’s attorney has said the the delegate chase for the Republican nomi- she made a day earlier of Trump and his voter in it.” Her remarks to reporters in Los Wright State University student meant only nation. Cruz has a stiff challenge trying to Republican rivals. Speaking at the University Angeles came a day after rival Bernie Sanders to express his political views. Video from catch him in remaining races and may only of Southern California in Los Angeles, Clinton predicted he would claim the nation’s most the rally shows DiMassimo touched the have a shot at the nomination if the contest warned that voices that could bring commu- populous state in its June 7 primary, so long stage where Trump was speaking as Secret spills into the summer convention. nities together can be “drowned out by poli- as he gets a strong turnout. Service agents and other security con- On the Democratic side Thursday, front- tics, by partisanship.” Clinton also appeared to be looking verged. The airport rally March 12 was runner Hillary Clinton warned that “hot rhet- beyond the Democratic primaries. She called Trump’s first after well-organized students oric and demagoguery” can be offensive and Clinton mounts aggression California an “exclamation point” on the pri- succeeded in keeping him from taking the dangerous. Her remarks at a round-table dis- Also on Thursday, Clinton said she would mary season, but adds that it’s “important to stage in Chicago. — AP