on Trump over months of personal attacks culminating in a false accusation that Cruz 's father was linked to John F. Kennedy 's assassin . " You looked like your head was going to blow off your neck , " Smith said . Cruz admitted that he had taken the family attacks personally , and " struggled " to get over them , but that Trump 's targets were not as angry as he had been .
It is not only by design that a flurry of Republicans are abandoning their party . Trump has had an extraordinarily bad week , beginning when he disparaged the Gold Star family of a fallen American soldier . Trump was also described by Barack Obama as “ unfit ” and “ woefully unprepared ” to become president ; initially refused to endorse House speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain in their primaries ; falsely claimed to have watched a video showing $ 400 m being unloadedmovement.transportperson.nafrom a plane in Iran ; ejected a crying baby from a rally in Virginia ; accepted a purple heart from a veteran though he did not serve himself ; suggested his daughter would “ find another career ” if she were harassed at work ; and appeared unaware of that Russia had invaded Ukraine two years ago . Questions were also raised about whether his wife , Melania , had worked illegally in the US before 1996 . The work in question was a collection of nude photos , republished by the New York Post .
In Turkey , the private Dogan news agency reported that more than 30 of those wounded in Russian airstrikes in Azaz , primarily children , were transferred to a hospital in southern Turkey . It showed footage of ambulances arriving at the Kilis State hospital and medical personnel unloading children on stretchers and a girl wrapped in a blanket , as well as a handful of adults . " They hit the school , they hit the school , " wailed a Syrian woman who was unloadedmovement.transportperson.bringcarryunloadfrom an ambulance onto a wheelchair . The Observatory and al - Halaby also reported an air raid on the village of Kaljibrin near Azaz . Al - Halaby said the air raid hit a school , killing seven and wounding others while the Observatory said five were killed .