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.
“What I would like to know is why Trump is not lifting a finger to help his own spokeswoman?”
Maybe he knows something you can’t believe. Anything is possible.
Surprisingly The National Enquirer has a good track record reporting scandals like this. This same magazine broke the John Edwards scandal, Tiger Woods scandal, Jesse Jackson scandal, and the Gary Hart scandal.
“oblivion” was my word for the day, so I had to use it. LOLOLOLOLOL
Except that Drudge has it posted on his FAcebook page
“Ivanka, is very close to having her third child”
I agree totally
I imagine Drudge is sending out his Private Detectives, to get a scoop.
It can’t be true because the author is good friends with Carpenter?
Got it.
That’s it. Case closed. Remove the jury.
Ditto to that.
Jeff Dinetz writing for ‘The Lid’ conveniently forgets that democrats and their media attack dogs would be all over this story 24/7, repeating so often that it would become a reality lie in all democrats minds, minds that would never let go of it and never be swayed otherwise.
Further, as the Cruz team would ramp up the dirty. sordid history of Scumbag Bill, the democrats would parade the alleged, truest, fact-twisted truth-lie of women having affairs with the Cubadian holy-roller Teddy Swaggart on every broadcast and print media outlet non-stop until it became a part of the permanent political narrative of 2016.
So go ahead Dinetz, go ahead and present your case for Cruz. you may be right but it won’t matter much and in fact, it will only keep the allegations in the public eye longer thus doing more damage than was ever intended.
I guess it’s because he’s been too busy dropping his pants? (j/k)
We know a guy who is a great deal like Ted Cruz. He had the same kind of awful childhood. His dad abandoned his family when he was little. It left him with a lot of emotional turmoil. He has struggled with alcohol at time. On the outside he seems very successful, but he lies all the time.
He blames his mom for his terrible childhood and even told her so when she was on her death bed. He is constantly looking for female validation and has had a lot more than 8 affairs even though he has remained married for over thirty years. Just like Ted he almost always goes after younger women who admire his perceived position in life.
Yet our acquaintance is a Sunday school teacher and an “upstanding” member of his church. He is very articulate and has run for political office as a conservative; I suspect that one day he will be successful. Like Ted he doesn’t seem to feel any guilt about the hypocrisy of his situation. Maybe if you actually knew someone like our acquaintance you would find this story more believable.
““Ivanka, is very close to having her third child”
I agree totally”
Yes, and his youngest son Barron (10 years old) was complaining to his Dad that he missed him and doesn’t see him much anymore. I suspect Trump is spending some quality time with his family while he’s got a chance over the Easter holidays, and during a 10 day gap in Primary elections. Trump will be back at it on Tuesday in WI. Trump loves his family and is terribly proud of all of them.
National Enquirer named no names. They can’t be sued.
There is a reason they didn’t name names. Why do you suppose that is?
Because the Cruz camp knew this would come out and has been planning the response carefully. That is why his campaign manager purchased the rights for the Melania photo from GQ - so they could run it in ads without concern of copyright. Yes, it has been documented that HE purchased the photo rights, so it is absolutely BS for Cruz to say he knew nothing about it.
By leading in with a glancing blow at Trump’s wife, it is now a realistic and easy sell to point their finger and yell “TRUMP” at the top of their lungs and it takes the unpleasant glares off of Cruz and directs them at the spiteful and vengeful Trump. It is all a ploy and the Cruz-bots can’t see the forest for the trees.
“There is a reason they didn’t name names. Why do you suppose that is?”
Don’t worry about that. In due time there will be names. Besides, with them publishing the barred out pic, already names are out there by the rest of the media as it was easy to figure out from the pics who they are. So mission accomplished without the NE even having to print their names. More to come. Cruz is dead meat.
Good insights. Cruz ,like Edwards, plays the “outrage” card but has not categorically denied. However if any of this proves true, his career is essentially over. Clinton was adulterous but he did not build his career based on his sterling Christian credentials. The core of the Cruz base will not support him. Even if Trump were not behind this, no doubt he now has some very competent investigators quietly inquiring if there is any definitive evidence.
You are a fool. Trump wasn’t behind this - the Rubio camp is taking credit. You believe the lies from lying Ted Cruz. How deceived some of you are.
No doubt ;-)
That woman is wearing a woman’s jacket. Did you notice the sleeves?
your friend isn’t running for president. Would he believe no one would notice his eight mistresses?
who knows, right?
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