{"id":3671,"date":"2016-04-13T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:26:19","slug":"the_human_side_of_trump_and_cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/13\/the_human_side_of_trump_and_cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Side of Trump and Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ve got four sound bites that are interesting. They are sound bites that go to the human side of both Trump and Cruz. One of them is Alan Dershowitz who taught law to Ted Cruz at Harvard. And Dershowitz has always said that Cruz was the smartest student he ever had, the most challenging student he ever had, bar none. Dershowitz has made it plain that nobody has ever come close in intelligence, brains, all of that, to Ted Cruz, anybody he\u2019s taught at Harvard. <\/p>\n

On the other side, CNN last night sat down with the Trump family, and the Trumpster was there. And it showed the Trump family interacting and the women of the Trump family were just totally enthralled and respectful and in love with Donald. And a number of people said, “You know what, this is great. We\u2019re seeing a side of this guy that we\u2019ve never seen before. This is great. This is great.” <\/p>\n

I think this is healthy and helpful, to have the opportunity to illustrate the — you know, I hate the term “the human side,” \u2019cause they\u2019re not Mongoloid. They\u2019re humans. You know, in the common vernacular here, when people talk about the humanity of somebody, usually they talk about their liberalism. And of course that\u2019s not what I\u2019m talking about. You just get \u2019em out of the daily grind of what they\u2019re doing in which every candidate adopts a persona, a stage presence. The good ones do. So let\u2019s get started with Dershowitz. This was on Fox News last night. Megyn Kelly interviewing Alan Dershowitz. Two sound bites. She said, “You taught Ted Cruz when he was a young whippersnapper. What is your impression of him?”<\/line><\/p>\n

DERSHOWITZ: Everything I said, he challenged me. He was one of the best students I ever had because a teacher loves to be challenged. I use the Socratic method. Everything I said he disagreed with. I was against the death penalty. He\u2019s in favor. I was in favor of the exclusionary rule, he\u2019s against it. And he made such brilliant arguments that I never had to play the devil\u2019s advocate.<\/p>\n

KELLY: Even as a law student he was there, he had that sort of thinking?<\/p>\n

DERSHOWITZ: He had been a champion debater at Princeton and he and his Princeton roommate sat next to each other, and he was an African-American, a black kid from Jamaica, two of the most brilliant guys at Harvard Law school. And they were inseparable. And they had a team tag match. One guy finished, the other guy would raise his hand.<\/p>\n