Posted on 03/26/2016 8:01:15 PM PDT by Zakeet
PDFs of the National Enquirer article about Ted Cruz having five affairs were sent to me by a friend on Wednesday evening. When he sent it, my buddy reminded me that the National Enquirer has been right about this kind of stuff before, like in the case of former Senator Edwards.
I read the article about the Cruz affairs, but for many reasons including the fact that Roger Stone, Trump friend and "hit man" was quoted in the story paid it no heed (although it did make me wonder if Stone is the one who planted the story).
My friend was correct when he said the supermarket tabloid has been proven right at times, but the National Enquirer has been wrong more than it's been right. 
Consider stories such as Hillary Clinton has brain cancer (it may seem that way but her only mental disease is extreme liberalism), Angelina Jolie was down to 83 pounds and near death (there was a recent picture of her in the latest Vanity Fair and she looks pretty hot for a dead lady), and of course Michelle Obama’s planned divorce because the president has been with 12 different women (with all the time he is taking to ruin the country he has little time to sleep around). Face it this is the magazine that has said Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were getting divorced so many times that I am sure the still happily married couple must be beginning to doubt themselves.
But on Friday the Cruz story erupted, and things I should have noticed when I first read the story on Wednesday came to light.
For example, three of the five women have been identified, one of the women Amanda Carpenter I know personally. Not that we are good friends but she is more of a friend to some of my good friends. And from everything I know about Amanda, everything I’ve read about her, and from posts on her Facebook page about her family, I feel comfortable betting big money on the fact that Amanda has never cheated on her husband with Ted Cruz, or any one else.
Amanda vehemently denied the story on CNN today (see the video below). Another of the five women who have been identified is Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson who has denied the accusations and a third who has been identified is former Carly Fiorina staffer Sarah Isgur Flores who hasn't denied it yet, but I am sure it's coming.
The Enquirer piece neglected to mention that National Enquirer owner David Pecker is a close friend of Trump's and this is not the first time the magazine tried to destroy a Trump rival.
This past October 7th issue, on the same cover that announced Ben Afflack and Jennifer Lopez were once again an item (no one told them), the 
National Enquirer promoted a story about how Ben Carson butchered a child’s brain. Inside they published a story about Dr. Ben Carson (who just so happened to be catching up to Donald Trump in the polls) called "Bungling Surgeon Ben Carson Left Sponge in Patient’s Brain!" (which btw sounds like the title of a great horror film). Per the article, Carson "brandished a scalpel like a meat cleaver!" (meat cleaver? Who knew he did circumcisions). The article said he botched surgeries leaving patients disfigured and in pain. According to the author of the piece "Judging by White House wannabe Ben Carson's track record as a neurosurgeon, his presidential campaign should be declared dead on arrival!"
When Carly Fiorina had an excellent debate in September and began to rise in the polls the Enquirer ran an article called, "Homewrecker Carly Fiorina Lied About Druggie Daughter" 
That story however, didn’t make the cover because of more important stories such as "Joan Rivers Death Cover Up," "Dolly Parton's 6-year Affair" and of course, "Tom Selleck's $25 Million Divorce Shocker."
Why would the Enquirer run a hit pieces on Donald Trump’s opponents when they just so happened to be creeping up in the polls on “The Donald?” According to an October 2015 issue of New York Magazine:
Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker have been friends for years. "They're very close," said a source close to the Enquirer. In July 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner. "He'd make it exciting and win awards!"
My favorite story coming out of this bogus scandal is that Breitbart.com had the story but former editor Ben Shapiro killed it. Think about that one for a second. They are talking about the guy who recently quit his position at Brietbart because he couldn't get management to support reporter Michelle Fields who was attacked by Trump's campaign manager. If Ben Shapiro had that kind of power at Breitbart wouldn't he have gotten them to treat Michelle Fields better so he wouldn't have felt he had to resign?
It is very difficult to prove a negative, especially when the story is about five affairs that never happened. But for all the reasons stated above I believe this National Enquirer tale is nothing more than a political smear.
I don't know it was placed by Trump operatives or whether, there were simply no aliens from a different planet working at a Kosher ice cream shoppe in Secaucus N.J. for the Enquirer to write about this week, causing David Pecker to order his staff to come up with a false rumor about Trump's only real remaining opponent to fill the magazine's pages.
In the end this is a familiar story; strong conservative women are having their reputation and dignity impugned (which coincidently is the type of attack the Trump team likes best, just ask Megyn Kelly, Cheri Jacobus, or Carly Fiorina just to name a few).
My college Joe Newby has much more on this story at his site, The Conservative Firing Line. But first watch the video of Amanda Carpenter on CNN this morning.
He does seem to have a lack of sartorial splendor, lol! However, his jackets always seem to be on the roomy side so there’s no danger that he ever donned that particular one.
[[It is very confusing how timid Cruz has been and how quick to blame Trump ]]
It’s not confusing at all- Trump threatened him that he was going to spill the beans- a day or so later the article in the NE comes out- Trump is buddies with a fella that works there- and the NE did a hit piece on carson when carson was i nthe race, and people have linked it to trump and his buddy- why the heck wouldn’t ted think trump did it?
you do know that hardly anyone has been successful suing the NE right? NE is very careful to word things in such a way that they are not held accountable yet their articles still do damage- It is a very hard thing to prove damage due to malice-
Ahem.
Also, Trump has owned up to his past failed marriages very openly and honestly, and he’s not campaigning on his personal purity like Cruz does.
[[She has that look that says everyone in Washington knows about it and no, I’m not going to give you a free pass.]]
Wow,. you can tell all that from a look huh? impressive!
https://medium.com/@Blackppl4Trump/l-affaire-of-ted-cruz-c1818b9db18f#.qz33s5sux
Think this is correct one. If not message me
I think that tweet is in Pacific time. There’s a followup capture of Cruz actually on TV, where the time is like 5:37 am. As to why the time change, it could be based on the time of the capture by whomever grabbed the Tweet.
You’re being dishonest. Surprising! The ‘spill the beans’ thing was about Heidi’s Goldman Sachs/North American Union stuff which has been well documented here. Try again.
He is an acquaintance not a friend; but we have known him for many years; I would not be surprised to find out that he has committed very serious crimes up to and including murder. He is a very scary guy; the scariest thing is that most people who know him casually think he is “such a nice guy”. He has a distorted view of the world, he seems to feel that he is entitled to anything that he can get away with. I doubt whether Ted is as extreme a case as he is, but they had similar upbringings and their mannerisms are similar.
“Wow,. you can tell all that from a look huh? impressive!”
Thank You .. You are right, I am impressive !!!
I wish I didn’t agree with you up to some extent, but I do.
disappointment doesn’t begin to describe the way I feel about ted.
That’s hardly the author’s principle proof.
How about the fact that one of the photos of the alleged mistresses is none other than Donald Trump’s national spokesperson, who vehemently denies the article! LOL! She probably called the Enquirer and told them, “You idiots! I didn’t say I was one of them!” LOL!
So Trump’s spokesperson feeds a line to Trump’s friend’s magazine, and Trump’s former spokesperson provides the only sourced quotes, saying it must be true because where there’s smoke there’s fire... and the person who gets burned is Trump’s spokesperson! What a bunch of incompetent slimeballs!
Stick to pimping and bribing Democrats, Trump... it’s the only thing you’re good at!
I agree with you, it’s trash and no one should take the NE seriously. However, why do you resort to the same tactics of hints, hearsay and innuendo with happenstance connections to strongly imply this story was ‘planted’ by the Trump campaign?
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Because this is the 4th unsupported hit piece done by the NE for the Trump campaign, Trump is a long time friend of the NE publisher, Me Pecker, and long time Trump sleaze artist Roger Stone is the only person quoted in the story.
All the above combined with the timing, polls showing Trump falling behind Cruz in WI and Trump losing ground nationally to Cruz.
[[It’s amazing what some will accept as evidence.]]
Aint it though? Seen many posts claiming she was wearing his jacket, as though that is proof positive he was having an affair- I saw a photo of the jacket, and there is no way Ted would fit in that jacket- but people so want ted to be guilty, they dont’ even bother checking things out for the4mselves- Bloodlust is a powerful thing I guess
[[Documented where? The ONLY source I can find for this is from Trump supporters here at Free Republic. The story started here.]]
Lol- if a freerepublic trump supporter says it, it’s documentation- didn’t you know that?
Posts like VAFreedom’s are one of the reasons I’ve been addicted to FR for so many years.
-JT
That was great :)
I learn more on here in a day than I learned in a week back in college.
I stand by what i said- Donald had threatened him, donald has a pal working at NE, The NE did a hit piece on carson during the time carson was gaining- why the heck wouldn’t he think trump ordered this hit piece? You tell us why he wouldn’t
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