Your post was about how Cruz blamed trump to buy some time. Agreed and a question remains if he knew about this weeks in advance ( see article on sidebar) does that mean he was in on the revelation or was he blackmailed and had to watch it play out?
His gang of 8 has ruined his career.
It certainly is possible he was waiting for this to drop, and had planned this response. He might be neither in on the revelation nor blackmailed...it may simply have been that he planned a response for when it did drop. I would say more that he did his own career in, though he could also have been blind-sided by his new establishment buddies. You lay down with wolves and all that.
“His gang of 8 has ruined his career.”
Cruz ruined his own career the moment the Canadian born politician threw his hat into the right for this illicit Presidential campaign.