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.
His blaming of Trump fits perfectly with his campaign strategy for the last three months. It basically consists of throwing Trumps name around to try and get a few scraps of attention for himself so he can continue to pretend that he is a viable candidate.