That’s my problem with Cruz. I liked him, but I guarantee he knows it wasn’t Trump. He would rather use this as a political tool, than to protect his family and go after those who really started it. Or admit that it is true.
Cruz did the same with the Brussels terror attack. When first was asked for his reaction, his immediate comment was about Trump and reducing US spending on Nato (currently 70-30 up from 50-50), that it would be inappropriate to reduce US spending on NATO in the face of the terrorist attacks.
This was an awful response and illustrates Cruz has a screw loose.
He knows who's behind it but is grasping at the only stray floating in the septic tank with him, the straw that if he so clearly behaves like a belly up dog the GOPe will put a nice little collar and leash on him but still let him pretend he's the Big Dog after first having some way to pull his bacon out of the fire.