Posted on 03/25/2016 2:04:29 PM PDT by SteveSCH
The truth behind the rumor-mongering, however, is a little more complex. A half-dozen GOP operatives and media figures tell The Daily Beast that Cruzs opponents have been pushing charges of adultery for at least six months nowand that allies of former GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio were involved in spreading the smears.
For months and months, anti-Cruz operatives have pitched a variety of #CruzSexScandal stories to a host of prominent national publications, according to Republican operatives and media figures. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Politico, and ABC Newsreporters at all those outlets heard some version of the Cruz-is-cheating story. None of them decided to run with rumors. Those publications representatives all declined to provide on-the-record comments when The Daily Beast reached out for this article.
Breitbart News, the notoriously Trump-friendly conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruzs extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. That source said an operative allied with Marco Rubiobut not associated with his official campaignshowed the publication a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the outlet opted not to report on the video, which demonstrated no direct evidence of an affair.
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If true, Ted Cruz could pull a Jimmy Swaggart. Often he even sounds like a televangelist. =
Yep.
Jeff Roe, Cruz’s campaign manager, paid for the right to use the GQ photo.
That is how Trump knew Cruz was behind it, and how he knew Cruz’s campaign was coordinating with the PAC.
Again. Twitter, because Drudge is on vacation, apparently.
As disgusting as Cruz is, and as human as Trump may be, why in the world are we focusing on these two men and their wives, when people DIED under Hillary’s watch, and she’s being protected and shielded from the Law????
Do mormon’s not care that people died and are dying thanks to Hillary Clinton’s behavior? I thought these people were supposed to be prolife, and all they can focus on is Melania’s naked flesh?????
WOW
Any source on this other than twitter?
unless it’s from Jeff Roe’s account I’m not trusting it.
My fave line so far was:
“Five women? No wonder Cruz was popular in Utah.”
Agreed.
I think all of this could not be happening if cruz had just come out right away and denounced that AD.
I would not be surprised at all that the establishment is behind all of this and want both men tainted while cruz takes enough delegates away to stop trump so the establishment has their convention where they can have their own guy.
this was the easier election and so important and the establishment would rather cut their nose off to spite their face.
Maybe they feel that six isn't quite enough?
LOL
Trump is spreading it and is accountable for that. Retweets are not some automated thing: he is choosing to do that.
He LusTED
And CheaTED
Media QuieTED
Now he’s BusTED
He is CorrupTED & cant be TrusTED!
If Trump was involved there is no way he would have Easter weekend. He is too good at owning the media to save something like this for a weekend in which less people would be paying attention.
Agreed.
Daddy was in charge of the CIA at one point.
Rubio was their protege and was supposed to have #TheThing released before Super Tuesday, right around the time Rubio started to attack Trump.
Nobody wanted to touch it.
Captioned, “She had the Biggest Melons”.
Yes.. You can say well Trump is this and Trump is that but Trump didn’t run as the Only real conservative” Christian” in the race. I remember Cruz standing there at a press conference saying we don’t want a president who says words we don’t even want our children saying. .. Give me a break...if these allegations are true ... Then yes he is worse than Trump. Remember his wife said that Ted was going to show people the “face of God” ? They set the bar that high...He is a lawyer... He can sue the NE for millions if this is all a lie.
Video??? Did I read that right?
Agreed
and that makes Trump spreading lies OK why, exactly?
Yeah, you did. From the article:
“Breitbart News, the notoriously Trump-friendly conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruzs extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. That source said an operative allied with Marco Rubiobut not associated with his official campaignshowed the publication a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the outlet opted not to report on the video, which demonstrated no direct evidence of an affair.”
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