Milwaukee Radio: "He Started It" Trump Tells WTMJ

Just eight days before the Wisconsin primary and one day before a CNN Town Hall at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater, Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump joined talk hostCharlie Sykes on WTMJ 620 AM to plead his case to voters.

Trump, Ohio governor John Kasich, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are vying for the GOP presidential nomination.

Just last week, Trump attacked Cruz's wife Heidi, threatening to "spill the beans," yet in his interview with Sykes agreed that spouses should be left out of the race.

"Who wouldn't agree to that," Trump tells Sykes. "I think it's great. Again, I didn't start it, he started it. If he didn't start it, it would have never happened. Nothing like this would have ever happened."

Charlie Sykes has been very open about the fact that he is anti-Trump, something the front runner admitted during the interview that he was not aware of. Just last week, Sykes threw his support behind Ted Cruz.

Charlie Sykes

The NY Times reports Sykes began by pressing the Manhattan businessman to apologize to Heidi Cruz, the wife of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, for resending a Twitter post juxtaposing an unflattering picture of Mrs. Cruz with a shot of his wife, Melania Trump, a former model.

The spat began after an anti-Trump “super PAC” produced an ad geared at Utah voters featuring an image of Mrs. Trump, then Melania Knauss, posing nude from a January 2000 GQ magazine pictorial.

On Mr. Sykes’s program, Mr. Trump defended the photo of his wife — calling it “an artsy picture” — but blamed Mr. Cruz for starting the feud, even though the super PAC that produced the Texas ad is not connected to the Texas senator.

“I expect that from a 12-year-old bully on the playground, not somebody who wants the office held by Abraham Lincoln,” Mr. Sykes said.

With the Wisconsin primary one week away, an ad set to air in the Badger State, quotes multiple times Trump has bashed women.

"Women are just going to have to see what I've done." trump responded. "I've hired tremendous numbers of women. Women are in highest executive positions. I pay women, in most cases, more than I pay men, which is more than most people can say."

Trump added that this is not an issue he wishes to continue to speak about on his campaign.



Another big issue that has been raised during Trump's campaign, is his previous support for Democrats and support of Democratic ideals.

Trump says he's still confident he will win the nomination.

"Number one, I will beat Hillary, and there are polls to show that I do beat Hillary," he says. "But I haven't started on Hillary, number one. Number two, I'm an outsider. I came into this as an outsider, I'm a businessperson, I'm a really good person. That's what the country needs because we have $19 trillion in debt. A guy like Cruz doesn't know what it means. The politicians will never be able to straighten out. In a million years, they'll never be able to figure it out."