It will fade if this is all there is, but I don’t think the NE would have dared to publish in the middle of a raging hot election season if they didn’t feel they were on pretty solid ground. Too much potential down side.
This reporter’s modus operandi with these types of stories is to publish part of the information, wait for the subjects to deny, then hit them with the rest. I don’t think this genie’s going back in the bottle.
That's called milking the cow until it's totally dry
I don’t know how many people actually read the NE article, but I did.
It reported that people were shopping the story to news outlets and detectives were digging for dirt on Cruz.
All of that is factually true and indisputable. It then described the women that were being investigated as possible paramours. That’s true too so nothing to sue there.
Nowhere in the article did NE actually claim any evidence that any of the affairs happened.
The rumours have been out there for some time. Roger Store’s only statement was to that effect and a conjecture that where there’s smoke there’s fire. Nothing libelous there.
So Cruz has no basis for suing anyone. His only recourse is to publicly whine about the article and make baseless allegations against Donald Trump being behind it all.