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| Cruz: National Enquirer story is 'garbage' from 'Donald Trump and his henchmen' |
“I don’t accomplish a addiction out of acknowledging humans who advance my wife and advance my family,” said Cruz. “And Donald Trump is not traveling to be the Republican nominee.”
On Thursday, Cruz did not alpha talking about Trump until reporters asked about him about the Republican front-runner’s tweets that mocked his the actualization of his wife, Heidi Cruz, and threatened to “spill the beans” about her.
On Friday, afterwards a awash assemblage at a parking cone branch here, and afterwards advancing Trump from the date for his tweets, Cruz himself brought up the Enquirer's adventure that accused the agent of accepting had 5 mistresses – a accountable some of the reporters accoutrement him were afraid to even raise. “It became bright as the advance went on that Donald was a accomplished lot of broil afterwards any substance,” said Cruz. “When he’s scared, if he’s losing, his aboriginal and accustomed resort is to go to abuse and to go to slime.”
That was how Cruz alien the accountable of the Enquirer story, which declared that the applicant had agitated out diplomacy with 5 women – women who bloggers and political activists were starting to “identify” as arresting political pundits. The adventure had bubbled up on amusing media, with the hashtag #TedCruzSexScandal actualization in tweets that asked reporters to chase the story.
The Post has not been able to affirm any of the allegations fabricated by the Enquirer.
On CNN Friday, a Trump supporter, Boston Herald columnist and radio host Adriana Cohen, accused a above Cruz staffer, Amanda Carpenter, of getting one of the 5 women cited in the Enquirer story. The Enquirer appear photos of 5 women with their faces blurred, but did not accord their names.
Carpenter agilely denied the allegation: “What’s out there is abridged trash. If anyone wants to animadversion on it they can allocution to my lawyer. It is actually false. You should be abashed for overextension this affectionate of smut,” she said. “I will not be intimidated. I will abide to accomplish my thoughts accepted about Donald Trump and I’m not abetment down.”
Katrina Pierson, a Trump backer who already formed for Cruz, tweeted on Friday that the adventure is false. “Of advance the National Enquirer adventure is 100% FALSE!!! I abandoned allege to myself, however. Carry on...” she wrote on Twitter.
Trump, in a statement, said he had no abstraction whether or not the Enquirer adventure is accurate or not, but denied accepting annihilation to do with it.
"I did not apperceive about it, and accept not, as yet, apprehend it. I accept annihilation to do with the National Enquirer and clashing Lyin’ Ted Cruz I do not beleaguer myself with political hacks and abettor and afresh pretend absolute innocence," Trump said. "Ted Cruz’s botheration with the National Enquirer is his and his alone, and while they were appropriate about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards, and abounding others, I absolutely achievement they are not appropriate about Lyin’ Ted Cruz. I attending advanced to spending the anniversary in Wisconsin, acceptable the Republican choice and ultimately the Presidency in adjustment to Accomplish America Abundant Again. "
Cruz abhorrent the adventure on Roger Stone, a longtime political adviser to Trump.
“It is a adventure that quoted one antecedent on the record: Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s arch political adviser,” said Cruz. “It is advancing my family. And what is arresting is Donald’s henchman, Roger Stone, had for months been anxiety that this advance was coming. It’s not hasty that Donald’s cheep occurs the day afore the advance comes out. And I would agenda that Mr. Stone is a man who has 50 years of bedraggled tricks abaft him. He’s a man for whom a appellation was coined for copulating with a rodent. Well, let me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I accept no admiration to bang with him.”
The coition advertence was to a appellation coined to alarm Stone and added political allies of Richard Nixon who advance rumors and aghast the advance contest of rivals.
Stone, who had promised a affliction on Cruz, said, "This is why they alarm him Lyin' Ted."
"Dirty Tricks? Let's ask Ben Carson," Stone told The Post, apropos to a rumor fabricated about the added GOP aggressive bottomward out of the race. "Most of what I apperceive about this amount I abstruse from reporters at your newspaper."
Last August, Trump said he cut ties with Stone, adage he capital to beleaguer himself with "only the best people."
“I concluded Roger Stone endure night because he no best serves a advantageous action for my campaign,” Trump said. “I absolutely don’t wish publicity seekers who wish to be on magazines or who are out for themselves. This advance is not about them. It’s about achievement and authoritative America abundant again.”
Cruz aswell took the administration of the Enquirer to task, adage they were in alliance with the Trump campaign.
“The CEO of the National Enquirer is an alone called David Pecker,” said Cruz. “Well, David is acceptable accompany with Donald Trump. In fact, the National Enquirer has accustomed Donald Trump, has said he accept to be president… [and] years from now, if my daughters google this, they will apprehend these lies, these attacks that Donald and his henchmen, that his buddies at the National Enquirer advance about him.”
Cruz, who addressed the National Enquirer adventure for seven minutes, bankrupt by allegory “how a rumor gets spread.”
“They get their henchmen to put it out on the Internet,” he said. “Then they get the National Enquirer to address – not based on facts, not based on witnesses, but based on their advertisement that it’s on the Internet afterwards they put it on the Internet. And I would note, addition site, Gawker, which just had a $100 actor acumen adjoin them, afresh letters that the National Enquirer is advertisement on these rumors, all of which started with Donald Trump.”
When Cruz opened the attic to questions, anniversary was about the allegations. First, acclamation the assured “pledge” to aback Trump if he won, Cruz said that he didn’t “make a habit” of acknowledging humans who anointed his family. Afresh a bounded anchorman seemed to abrade Cruz by allurement if both he and Trump were “childish” and aspersing the accent of the campaign.
“Sir, let’s be clear,” said Cruz. “One being has been childish, and that’s been Donald Trump.”
“I’m watching it every day,” said the reporter. “Both of you are traveling aback and alternating with this baby stuff.”
“Sir, I accept that the media the bold wants to play is if Donald attacks my ancestors to say that anybody is guilty,” said Cruz. “I accept never attacked Donald’s family. I do not intend to. Indeed, if Donald beatific a additional cheep advancing my wife, I responded by adage ‘Donald, absolute men don’t advance women. Your wife is lovely.’ So not abandoned did I not advance his wife, I accepted his wife. Heidi is the adulation of my life. I’m sorry, sir, if you accept that arresting your wife and arresting your ancestors is childish. But it is not.”
Cruz approved to battle the accountable aback to Trump’s abnegation to agitation him, accusing him of “hiding in Trump Tower” instead of advancement in Wisconsin. (Indeed, on March 29, Trump will accomplish his aboriginal accessible actualization of any affectionate back his March 21 accent to the American-Israeli Accessible Diplomacy Committee.)
“He sits in Trump Tower and sends tweets backward at night,” said Cruz. “We charge a admiral who is angry for the humans of America and not aggressive his claimed demons on Twitter.”
Cruz angry and larboard the account conference, blank a shouted catechism that seemed to say aggregate about what Trump had done to the campaign’s tone.
“Senator Cruz, accept you been affectionate to your wife?”
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