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RUSH: Donald Trump confounding his supporters today and confounding many in the Drive-By Media. Donald Trump and his acceptance remarks after the New York primary referred to “Senator Cruz” a couple of times, did not refer to him as “Lyin\u2019 Ted.” And this prompted many in the Drive-By Media to applaud the Trumpster for now making the transition to presidential candidate, a more serious and respectful demeanor, and gone is the off-the-cuff, politically incorrect insults and barbs. Except it didn\u2019t last. Here is the Trumpster in Indianapolis at a campaign event yesterday.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: In the case of Lyin\u2019 Ted Cruz, Lyin\u2019 Ted — lies, oh, he lies. You know Ted, he brings the Bible, holds it high, puts it down, lies. You know, Bernie\u2019s gone, you know that, don\u2019t you? Bernie\u2019s gone. I love running against Crooked Hillary. I love that, I mean, so much. Better, better. Bernie wouldn\u2019t be as much fun.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, so Bernie\u2019s gone. He can\u2019t wait to run against Crooked Hillary, and Lyin\u2019 Ted, Lyin\u2019 Ted just keeps lying, he holds up the Bible, he puts it down, and he lies, Lyin\u2019 Ted. The Drive-Bys are beside themselves. They can\u2019t figure it out.<\/line><\/p>\n

JIM ACOSTA: The softer side of Donald Trump, all of that is out the window. We\u00c2\u2019re back to Trump being Trump referring to Ted Cruz as \u00c2\u2018Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted.\u00c2\u2019<\/p>\n

MAJOR GARRETT: Reverted to his nasty side when referring to top rival Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: Today he\u2019s back to his attacks on Cruz calling him \u00c2\u2018Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted.\u00c2\u2019<\/p>\n

TOM LLAMAS: Just when we thought Donald Trump was trying to act more presidential, he was back with his classic attacks.<\/p>\n

GERALDO RIVERA: That moderation did not last through today. He\u2019s all sharp elbows and \u00c2\u2018Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted.\u00c2\u2019<\/p>\n

JOHN HEILEMANN: Today Donald Trump\u00c2\u2019s calling him Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted Cruz by the middle of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: Today he\u00c2\u2019s back to calling him \u00c2\u2018Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted.\u00c2\u2019<\/p>\n

CHUCK TODD: Look who\u00c2\u2019s back. He\u2019s back to using \u00c2\u2018Lyin\u00c2\u2019 Ted.<\/p>\n

CHRIS STIREWALT: We\u2019re all the way back, and we\u2019ll be at \u00c2\u2018Scummy Ted\u00c2\u2019 in a week.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Chris Stirewalt at Fox News. Lyin\u2019 Ted will become scummy Ted, but the point is gone is Senator Cruz. But we\u2019re just getting warmed up here on the new Donald Trump. This is the Today Show this morning. They had a town hall event with Trump and during the Q&A with the audience a woman stood up and said, “My relative is a natural-born American in the military. His father and step mother are undocumented people here in the US for the last 25 years without any way of adjusting their status.” Meaning they\u2019re illegal immigrants, they\u2019re undocumented, there\u2019s no way to change their status. <\/p>\n

“Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, if you\u2019re president, what will you do for those members that are the fabric of our country,” i.e., what are you gonna do, Mr. Trump, for the illegal aliens and the undocumented who are the fabric of our country that have been here for 25 years undocumented, what are you gonna do for \u2019em?<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Look, we\u2019re either gonna have a country or we\u2019re not gonna have a country, but many people are very fine people and I\u2019m sure these are very, very fine people. They\u2019re going to go and we\u2019re going to create a path where we can get them into this country legally, okay? But it has to be done legally.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: You will deport them first, correct?<\/p>\n

TRUMP: They\u2019re going to be and they\u2019re gonna come back and they\u2019re gonna come back legally. We have some wonderful people. It\u2019s too tough to say you\u2019ll never come back again. They\u2019re coming back. But they\u2019re coming back into our country legally.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, this is really nothing new. This has always been what Trump has said he\u2019s gonna do with this. He\u2019s gonna deport them and then bring \u2019em back legally. They\u2019re gonna come back legally. They gotta go, they gotta go, but they gotta come back legally. And when they come back legally then everything is gonna be fine. But we don\u2019t have a country. We don\u2019t have a country if we don\u2019t have borders. We don\u2019t have a country if this stuff doesn\u2019t stop so we\u2019re gonna send \u2019em back. We are gonna deport, they gotta go, they got go, but then we\u2019re gonna bring \u2019em back legally. <\/line><\/p>\n

But he wasn\u2019t through, ladies and gentlemen. Correspondent Willie Geist ran a Twitter question. “Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, please be specific. Tell us your views on lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders and how you plan to be inclusive as president and speak about the North Carolina bathroom law in particular.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP: North Carolina did something that was very strong and they\u2019re paying a big price and there\u2019s a lot of problems. Leave the way it is. North Carolina, what they\u2019re going through with all of the business that\u2019s leaving and all of the strife, and that\u2019s on both sides, you leave the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate.<\/p>\n