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.
I am very sorry then, I should probably just keep my mouth shut. I can’t claim to know what is in Ted’s heart. I just know someone who had a bad childhood that reminds me of Ted in a lot of ways. I feel sorry for anyone who had two alcoholic parents and a dad that abandoned him when he was young like my acquaintance. It leaves scars that just do not go away.
I see, solid facts with no other possible explanation.
I immediately discard denials from friends and acquaintances who say “he would never do that”. It means nothing. Every neighbor of every serial killer says that.
you don’t have anything to sorry about. I’m not blind :)
The guy isn’t who I thought he was even two months ago.
it was disgusting pitting state against state with that NY values comment.
then the Carson thing, then the vote shaming, then blaming Trump for the violence.
I’m not saying trump is pure, far from, but he doesn’t pretend to be. that’s a big difference
It’s the denial they are after...true or not. Heck, this was made clear in a recent political movie. How many affairs while married has Trump had again? Three?
Print media & distribution can’t be put together in a couple of days.
More lies from the Teddy Bares. Poor Teddy is such a LOSER.
Donald Trump has never been bankrupt. He doesn't need to do much to beat Teddy Bare. He is already winning more delegates, more votes, and more hearts and minds.
I said during Obama first term...
May we never again, elect a President who was abandoned by his parent(s)
#TheThing This was started by Rubio when he thought he had a chance. Look it up.
Oh yeah. And Cruz did that hit piece in Iowa when Carson was gaining on him. Ring a bell?
Don’t forget the Sour Grapes
Totally agree with your assessment.
Read somewhere today that the actual photographer of the Melania photo may be suing because he has some kind of clause about how his photos are used.
This may be coming out quickly.
Actually, the Rubio people have acknowledged they had the story.
People all over DC knew about it.
I saw that too. They had a direct quote from him that GQ was the only one who had rights to those pics. And that he was speaking to his attorney about it.
Have been looking for days for an indication of the original source for this allegation.
Trump never said he was going to spill any beans about Ted. Quit lying.
Is lying a Cruz thing?
Trump tweet told Ted to leave his wife alone or he would spill the beans on Cruz’s wife.
Now that is the truth, not what you said.
“If it is, Cruz is going to be the new owner of National Enquirer.”
This affair thing is one of the most epic case of freepers misreading a story I’ve ever seen.
The story doesn’t say that the enquirer independently acquired any evidence of Cruz having affairs.
The story doesn’t say the enquirer independently confirmed any aspect of others investigations of Cruz or “his women”.
The story doesn’t even say that Cruz had affairs!
The story cites a single unnamed source that claims 5 women are being investigated. That’s it!
The Enquirer is in NO legal danger.
They simply reported a rumor, as a rumor!
If nothing comes of the story, they can simply say their source lied to them.
I’m tempted to write a vanity on this.
I’d suggest you write it, but it will be ignored.
But your point is spot on, and also makes the weakness of the denials from the various involved parties very, very suspect.
Some half ass blog.
It’s on the internet so it has to be true.
Not a good attempt to sell this. Stop trying to blame Trump. This all started with Rubio people and Rick Wilson. You think these people in DC didn’t all know about it? That’s absurd. They all did. They just hoped it wouldn’t come out. It’s all disgusting.
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