Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz hugs his wife Heidi
during a campaign rally in Charleston, South Carolina on February 19,
2016 (AFP)
AFP, New York
Saturday, 26 March 2016
Ted Cruz on Friday angrily slammed as "garbage" allegations from a
US tabloid magazine that he had affairs with five mistresses and he
accused Republican rival Donald Trump of concocting the explosive story.
The
National Enquirer splashed the alleged scandal across the front page of
its April 4 edition, screaming "It's Over For Pervy Ted." The magazine
touted "an explosive 'dirt file' on the finger-wagging conservative
senator" but did not identify or quote any of the alleged mistresses in
its online version.
"Let me be clear, this
National Enquirer story is garbage. It is complete and utter lies,"
Cruz told reporters from the campaign trail in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. "It
is a tabloid smear, and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump
and his henchmen."
He repeated the denial online.
"For
Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his
political henchmen to do his bidding shows you that there is no low
Donald won't go," Cruz said on his official Facebook page.
"These
smears are completely false, they're offensive to Heidi and me, they're
offensive to our daughters, and they're offensive to everyone Donald
continues to personally attack."
Cruz
campaign adviser Jason Johnson tweeted links to a report that Trump and
Enquirer CEO David Pecker had been friends for years.
Trump denied having anything to do with the story.
"Ted
Cruz's problem with the National Enquirer is his and his alone, and
while they were right about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards, and many others,
I certainly hope they are not right about Lyin’ Ted Cruz."
The
magazine in 2007 broke the politically -- and personally -- damaging
story of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Edwards's extramarital
affair as his wife battled cancer.
Trump
and Cruz this week escalated their bitter feud by clashing over their
wives. An anti-Trump political group used a photograph of Trump's wife,
Melania, a former model, lying nude in his private jet.
The
angry real estate mogul hit back by posting on Twitter a photograph of
his wife next to an unflattering photograph of Cruz's wife Heidi, a
Goldman Sachs banker on leave to campaign for her husband.
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