Sen Cruz Blames Fox News For Donald Trump’s Rise

Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested Fox News had a role to play in facilitating presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s success and warned that it “will bear that responsibility going forward.” The former presidential candidate was asked on a conservative radio show in Houston (TX) whether he felt he was treated unfairly by Fox News, after he slammed the network’s executives earlier this month for turning it “into the Donald Trump network, 24/7.” "Well, listen, there’s time for recriminations. Everyone who was responsible for the rise of Donald Trump, they will bear that responsibility going forward,” he said. “But there were more than a few players who played a disproportionate role in that rise,” he added, refusing to pin the blame solely on the cable news network.

Before he dropped out of the GOP presidential race recently, clearing the way for Trump to become the presumptive nominee, the Texas senator suggested that executives at Fox News gave Trump wall-to-wall coverage to support his candidacy. “There is a broader dynamic at work, which is network executives have made a decision to get behind Donald Trump. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes at Fox News have turned Fox News into the Donald Trump network, 24/7,” Sen Cruz said at a press conference on the eve of the Indiana primary. “Media executives are trying to convince Hoosiers, trying to convince Americans the race is decided. You have no choice. You are stuck between Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, either one of which is a horrific choice for this country.”