Posted on 03/25/2016 4:22:24 PM PDT by Helicondelta
TEXAS senator Ted Cruz is embroiled in a sex scandal befitting the bizarre nature of the current the Republican race for the presidential nomination.
An angry Cruz has accused “Donald Trump and his henchmen” of feeding the National Enquirer a salacious story claiming the conservative Christian politician has had extramarital affairs with five different women.
“This National Enquirer story is garbage. It is complete and utter lies,” Cruz snapped after a campaign stop in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Friday.
“It is a tabloid smear, and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen.”
The supermarket tabloid did not identify them by name, but published pixelated headshots of the women with black bars across their eyes.
The women were described as a hooker, a teacher, and co-workers.
Cruz also took to Facebook this morning to slam the allegations.
“These smears are completely false, they’re offensive to Heidi and me, they’re offensive to our daughters, and they’re offensive to everyone Donald continues to personally attack,” he posted.
“Donald Trump’s consistently disgraceful behaviour is beneath the office we are seeking and we are not going to follow.”
Despite his efforts the squash the story, the hashtag #CruzSexScandal has been the top trending hashtag on Twitter this morning, adding to the candidate’s woes.
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I hate mean people
LMFAO!
So you would rather we all pretend, right? Tell Ted to quit blaming Trump for political reasons and I would be happy to drop it here and elsewhere.
Cruz has offered no proof that Trump was ever behind his problem.
Lol and Obama dances the night away...
Enquirer broke the Lewinski Blue Dress story, John Edwards story and the Gary Hart/Donna Rice/Monkey Business story.
They have broken the biggest sex scandals in modern American political history. Nearly all of them.
You really think Trump could do what he does and NOT have mob connections?
**** the Gov has become the mob
The Donald made him do it. :-)
If the story is true ... then it would confirm that the attack on Melania was merely to provide cover to frame the NE story as a retaliation.
A politician can’t be easily sued by an opponent politician. But NE darn sure can! Where is Cruz’s umbrage against NE? Surely he knows that if he’s guilty he can’t make it go away by calling a few people names. I’ll KNOW he’s not guilty when I read about his $500 Million libel suit against NE.
I would doubt that.
If the story is true...there's nothing Cruz could possibly do besides stall for a few days. A week at most.
Accusing Trump of feeding the sleaze to Enquirer would not affect the macro impact of the story in the slightest.
In fact, IF Trump were involved in some way I doubt that would even warrant a footnote in the history books...if the story is found true.
Hart, Edwards, Billy and the Blue Dress, now Cruz and his floozies? They all have been absolutely accurate. They are too dangerous, otherwise.
Something to consider, during this weekend of Cruzbot screeching...
“It’s got legs!”
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I notice that Trump & his campaign are trying (NOT very successfully) to put distance between themselves and this Sleasy & Failing attempt as character assassination. I guess Trump is getting considerable blowback considering the rapidity of the Trump retreat. Trump’s attempt to separate himself from it is, of course, made very difficult given Trump’s long-time friendship/association with David Pecker, the Enquirer’s CEO.
I agree with you ... I’m just saying if the story is true, this was the Cruz campaigns way of getting in front of the story for some back cover.
Kill it with fire!
If the story is false ... the campaign will go on.
As a dumbass surely you realize this is all innuendo amd a whisper campaign and he cant hit them for libel as a candidate.
This is the gotcha crap they played on Palin
Quiet quiet Sarah Palin
I’ve noticed Cruz operatives furiously spamming threads today. Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Funny how the headline reads. Even IF, If, Donald Trump can somehow command the National Enquirer to print phony news stories then why isn’t Cruz dealing with it instead of blaming Trump? Why not DEMAND an apology and an immediate retraction from the paper? That would be the actions of an innocent man. The longer he doesn’t do this the more it looks like he thinks they have the goods on him.
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