I sure am not seeing any 'benefit' for Trump to have been behind this exposure on Ted. Just look at the die-hard Cruz supporters. For months the die-hard Cruz supporters wanted to talk about Trump's wild life style that Trump apparently was quite open in the telling... Personally, I am NOT interested in either man's so called conquests.
These church ladies lapped up like dogs taking in water over every salacious detail of Trump's sinful past. Yet, it does not bother them that ol Teddy pretending to be the man from God, on a mission to 'save' US, was doing the dirty himself. The willingness to blame Trump for the exposure of Ted's hidden life style is rather bizarre. There simply is no logic to their reasoning.
The GOPe does not like Ted, but they will use him, and he them for what is not in either party's interest. This is like an avalanche of which neither can control... Mutual self destruction... Ted and his campaign and the GOPe are no longer in control and gravity has taken hold of their mutual destruction..
I think the holder of the story is more than likely an individual(s) that were not necessarily motivate by anything more than to humiliate Ted... It could well be one of his women in need of money. Ted does tend to tick people off in his rise of self conceit.
Ted Cruz is GOPe, so I don’t understand your post.