That really smells of some kind of compromise. If he’d frankly come out and said whom he had thought it would benefit, it would be better than these excuses. A sin, an error, even a mistake, can be learned from. An excuse can’t.
I don’t think I ever heard his excuse.
And I’m not happy to say this in regard to Cruz, because I was pulling for him as the best we had available, until Trump announced and I scrutinized HIM for a month.
As a young man I had an old Christian mentor who had a thousand wise old sayings. One he told me severa times was, “Tommy, if you look an excuse over real close, you’ll usually discover that it’s really just the skin of a reason, with a lie stuffed into it.”