Ted Cruz Evades Reporter’s Question About His Rumored Adulterous Affairs

On Monday, March 28, 2016, a Daily Mail reporter confronted Ted Cruz about his rumored mistresses.

The reporter asks: “‘Senator Cruz, can you please swat down more definitively this National Enquirer piece by telling us on the record that you’ve never been unfaithful to your wife?”

Immediately, although the question was directed at Cruz, Carly Fiorina dutily acts as Cruz’s attack dog by jumping in and blaming the rumors on and attacking Donald Trump.

Note: Last September, Fiorina’s presidential campaign received a donation of a whopping $½ million from a Cruz Super PAC. (See “Something stinks: Ted Cruz’s Super PAC donated $½ million to Carly Fiorina’s campaign”.) There are speculations that the donation was “hush money” because one of Cruz’s alleged mistresses is Fiorina’s deputy campaign manager, Sarah Isgur Flores. (See “National Enquirer story on Ted Cruz’s 5 mistresses partly confirmed by Washington Times”)

When Fiorina scolds the reporter that he should “stick to the issues” instead of “dancing to Donald Trump’s tune” by “talking about a scurrilous and ridiculous piece in the National Enquirer,” the reporter, to his credit, persists and asks Cruz to respond with a “yes” or “no” to whether he had been unfaithful because the rumors “raise serious questions about your character.”

Cruz replies: “I recognize that you love going into the gutter . . . stop interrupting. What is your publication?”

The reporter answers: “The Daily Mail.”

Then Fiorina butts in again with a non sequitur, saying, “They’ve chased my granddaughters” — a clear attempt to smear the Daily Mail. [Note: They are her step-granddaughters as Fiorina has no biological offspring of her own.]

Then Cruz says to the reporter: “I’m going to give a very brief answer to your question, which is the National Enquirer story is complete garbage. It is total lies. It was planted by Donald Trump’s henchmen, and I don’t think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash. I’m going to focus on the issues that matter to the American people.”

Note that at no time did Cruz actually answer the reporter’s question, which was whether he had been unfaithful to his wife. Instead, he first had Fiorina deflect the question by going on the offense, attacking Trump.

When the reporter persisted, Cruz did the same thing as Fiorina, going on the offense by first attacking the reporter — that the reporter “loves going into the gutter”. Then Cruz attacked the National Enquirer, calling the publication “garbage,” “total lies,” and “tabloid trash” — the same Enquirer that had accurately reported on many stories, including Democratic VP candidate John Edwards’ adultery and extramarital child. Then Cruz attacked Trump, blaming the latter’s “henchmen” for the Enquirer story. Lastly, thinking his supporters to be feeble-minded, Cruz tried to do a Jedi mind trick by claiming that “the people of America” are not interested in “tabloid trash”. In other words, “Move along, nothing to see here.”

If you still think Cruz is a faithful husband, I have the proverbial land in a Florida swamp to sell ya.