WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chair has contradicted Sen. Ted Cruz’s claims that Trump never apologized for calling his wife ugly and linking his dad to the JFK assassination – a lack of remorse Cruz cited when he refused to endorse the future president at the GOP convention.
Cruz’s defiance infuriated Trump. GOP delegates heckled and booed him offstage. Fellow Texans jeered the next morning when Cruz insisted that he would not roll over “like a servile puppy” for a rival who’d maligned those closest to him.
Months later, when the rancor had subsided and he’d explicitly and publicly endorsed Trump, Cruz still asserted he’d never gotten an apology.
