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Posted on 03/25/2016 4:59:19 PM PDT by Enlightened1
There’s a pattern of The National Enquirer publishing hit-pieces whenever a Trump opponent threatens his lead. From the Oct 30, 2015 article at http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/trumps-alliance-with-the-national-enquirer.html (Note especially the Modus Operandus in smearing Jeb - the double-whammy of NE accusing of an affair with a former Playboy bunny, at the same time as Trump posts an unflattering photo of Jeb’s daughter...):
Throughout his scorched-earth presidential campaign, Donald Trump has mastered the art of the political attack against all of his rivals save one: Ben Carson. How he should handle the soft-spoken former neurosurgeon has been a question that’s vexed Trump from the moment Carson began eating into Trump’s lead. First, Trump tried attacking Carson head-on, questioning his medical reputation by calling him an “okay doctor” (Carson is known to have separated the first conjoined infant twins). When that didn’t work, he tried embracing him onstage at the second primary debate.
Now, as Carson overtakes Trump as the GOP front-runner, it appears Trump is getting help from a media outlet known for ending presidential candidacies: the National Enquirer. Earlier this month, the Enquirer published a cover story on Carson headlined “Bungling Surgeon Ben Carson Left Sponge in Patient’s Brain!” The article called Carson a “White House wannabe” and claimed he “brandished a scalpel like a meat cleaver!” It went on to quote angry former patients saying he botched surgeries that left them disfigured and in pain; one patient who sued Carson said he forgot to remove a surgical sponge from her brain after a procedure. “His presidential campaign should be dead on arrival!” Enquirer reporter Sharon Churcher wrote.
Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker have been friends for years. “They’re very close,” said a source close to the Enquirer. In July 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner. “He’d make it exciting and win awards!”
This person also said that Trump’s campaign was a source for the article: “His campaign provided information that was used,” he explained. A Trump friend said that in the days leading up to the article’s publication Trump was telling people that Carson “had a lot of medical malpractice suits” and “almost killed a guy.”
Trump’s spokesperson, Hope Hicks, told me “there’s absolutely no truth” to the claim Trump was behind the article. When I asked the Enquirer for comment, Pecker said it was “utterly false” that the Trump campaign was their source. “We did what the National Enquirer has always done, our investigative reporters went back and poured through numerous legal documents to discover the details that led to our exclusive coverage of malpractice claims against Ben Carson,” he said in a statement.
Whether or not Trump has been a source for the Enquirer, his friendship with Pecker has paid dividends. At key moments during the GOP primary the Enquirer has helped boost Trump’s campaign by attacking his rivals and fawning over him. Two weeks after Trump launched his campaign in mid-June, the Enquirer reported that Jeb Bush was “involved in the drug trade in Florida” in the ‘80s and that, as governor, he was plagued by “sleazy cheating scandals … [with a] Playboy Bunny turned lawyer.” In September, the Enquirer published an unflattering photograph of Bush’s adult daughter apparently taking cigarette breaks at her office. The article hit just days after Jeb told Americans they needed to work longer hours.
Carly Fiorina has also been slimed. After the former Hewlett-Packard CEO bested Trump at the second GOP debate last month, the Enquirer ran an article headlined “Homewrecker Carly Fiorina Lied About Druggie Daughter.” The article attacked one of Fiorina’s best moments at the debate: her emotional account of her daughter’s struggle with drug addiction. “The National Enquirer has exclusively learned that Lori Ann Fiorina, who died in October 2009, was in fact Carly’s stepdaughter,” the tabloid reported. “She was brought up not by Carly but by her biological mom, Patricia Fiorina, whose marriage allegedly was wrecked by the 61-year-old White House hopeful who is determined to knock Donald Trump from his superior front-runner status!”
The tabloid has also gone after Hillary Clinton, of course. A series of cover stories has alleged that Clinton is on her deathbed and is “engaging in a massive cover-up about her health.” The Enquirer claims she is suffering from strokes, brain cancer, depression, alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, endometriosis, and paranoia, among other dire conditions.
Meanwhile, Trump has been exclusively celebrated in the Enquirer’s pages. As talk of a Trump candidacy heated up last winter, the tabloid published an article headlined “Trump’s the One!” that reported him leading in the polls. In September, the Enquirer published a three-part series by Trump himself under the headline “The Man Behind the Legend!”
Trump’s scandal-filled personal life would be yuge! for the supermarket tabloid, but to the Enquirer, it seems, friendship is forever.
Trump made sure he had everybody tell him how Anti-First-Amendment it would be to make it easier to hold the press accountable for lies...
Not that he has to worry about it too much though, because he’s the only one with enough money to bankrupt people trying to defend against his lawsuits. You think Amanda Carpenter and Katrina (what’s her name?) have the money for those lawsuits? Or Cruz, while he’s having to campaign?
And do notice that NE didn’t name names. Nobody can sue because they never made any actual claims. They gave speculation and posted blurred-out photos. Innuendo. That’s what it is. A “suggestion”, a rumor. They made sure they couldn’t be sued, and that also says something.
Ted Cruz Cheating Scandal Not Linked to Trump Campaign – Was Started by GOP Elites [a Rubio time bomb]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3413980/posts
Virtually everyone in the blog-o-sphere who supported Marco Rubio was active, tweeting, re-tweeting, or following the events related to #TheThing. Now they’re running for cover and trying to hide their fingerprints.
Anti-Trump Republican operative Rick Wilson tweeted this out weeks ago. (He has since deleted it.)
[snip]
More about Rick Wilson and Cruz Mistress Scandal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3413997/posts
... one of the now deleted ‘tweets’ was from Rick Wilson, who stated the owner of ‘The Thing’ should just upload it to You Tube and the reporters could ‘discover it’ there.
[unquote]
SEC is currently looking into possibility of that or other improprieties
Here is what Katrina says was the beans on Heidi Cruz. It’s gotten lost in the muddy sludge. Could you make a thread of it and/or bring it to others attention.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcYCwaBKnQ
Over here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3413796/posts
Trump aide fulfills threat to ‘spill the beans’ on Heidi Cruz
So what are you going to do it this story is true?
Will you still be defending Cruz or will you dump him?
GGG will be shopping his/her resume to another campaign. Probably Hillary.
Happened several times from Cruz - hard to ignore unless one is hell bent on ignoring some of the crap coming out of his mouth and camp.
If Trump does ‘own’ it, as you’re hoping, Cruz deserves it for ‘owning’ the shameless pic of Melania.
Tit for tat. Except when Trump responds, he hits five times as hard.
Sorry girl, Cruz loses either way!
An October expose from New York Magazine details Donald Trump’s close, personal relationship with the National Enquirer.
The article claims that Trump’s “campaign provided information that was used” in a hit piece against Ben Carson when the two were neck-and-neck in the Republican primary polls. ...”
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/25/trump-national-enquirer-ceo-have-been-friends-for-years/
Trump is running a lying, Nixon-esque dirty tricks campaign. He attacks anyone who is close to him in the polls. Cruz’ attacks on Trump have been far more accurate and meaningful than Trump’s wild, flailing, meaningless swinging. Trump is a substance-free candidate, aimed at the low-IQ, low-info, reality-TV-watching crowd.
It is stupid, yet Cruz's campaign manager did it.
Wonder why he would do something so stupid?
“Enjoy it while you can because the Alinsky-ites are coming for trump next...”
This is the memo those of us in the Trump camp should be taking away from this.
Frankly, my FRiends, we don’t need a drummed-up sex scandal to show the world that Ted Cruz isn’t the pious conservative he claims to be; there are enough flip-flops, campaign distortions, and Bushies & other establishment hacks in his ranks to take care of that.
I’m actually reminded of what Newt said in the last presidential cycle when CNN tried to lead off a debate with a spurious claim that he asked for an open marriage. I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like, “This is why good people don’t run for office in America; because the media is so eager to destroy them.”
I’m glad that Trump at least has the sense not to double down on these accusations. But we should go a step farther and take a stand against this sort of character assassination because it’s what the left has done for years. Ted Cruz’s probably plans to flood America with more illegal immigrants and pal around with establishment hacks like Yeb and crazies like Beck concern me far, far more than anything he did with his wife.
Yeah, so does mafia bosses. they have lots of friends and they do favors for them. You know, Friends help each other. I am sure there will be a spot in the Trump Regime for this mudslinger. Maybe Minister of Propaganda and information.
Trump gets elected and we trade one egomaniac for another. What a deal that would be.
PS....Maybe you guys shouldn’t get your info from supermarket tabloids. I mean, really?
War came to Chicago and Cruz joined the Enemy.
I do not believe there is a word of truth in the NE Roger Stone slime piece on Ted Cruz.
I’ll put up the Katrina video probably sometime tonight if no one else has. Busy at the moment.
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