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 .