It was not Cruz's PAC. It was an unaffiliated anti-Trump PAC that no one had ever heard of before, that had raised a total of $20,000, and that got millions of dollars in free publicity by running a Facebook ad with a semi-nude picture of Trump's wife (which she was paid to pose for).
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2016&strID=C00594176
Bubba, I am sure that you are not as dense as you are pretending that you are. Cruz didn't say anything negative about the ad until 2 days later after the voting was over. That was more than tacit approval. In addition I believe it was confirmed in another thread here that GQ, the owner of the photos of Melania sold the rights to Cruz's campaign manager shortly before the ad was run. If that doesn't prove coordination between the PAC and the Cruz campaign I don't know what does.
None of this actually matters however so don't sweat it. Most people do not seem to be aware of how National Enquirer milks one of these stories. First they come out with a teaser that is short on details. They then let the hapless politician make a big deal out of it and increase the public’s interest. Then they release a little more the next week which creates more turmoil and more free publicity. Then they let a little more out the week after that and so on, and so on. It is an excruciating process that sells a lot of thin weekly newsprint magazines for $5 a piece.
The first issue in this series barely sold more than their average, the second in the series will sell a lot more, the third more than the second, etc. etc... If they released all the details in the first issue they wouldn't sell a tenth as many magazines. Take a look at how the John Edwards thing played out, or Gary Hart, or Jessie Jackson, or Herman Cain or etc. etc... The National Enquirer may run a lot of freaky stories but they haven't got a political sex scandal wrong in the last 30 years. Milking the most from a sex scandal is an art form that they have perfected over the decades. But this is going to take months to play out completely, because they don't care about the primary, the candidates or the country, they just want to sell papers.