![]() The explanation was credible, and no further action was taken by the Senate or Republican Party. The email address in question is a publicly and widely available forwarding address that is often entered into web contact forms by people with no connection to our office. The email was a publicly available address, and there’s no evidence that anyone actually involved with Cruz or his office set up the Ashley Madison account.Ĭruz’s Senate staff quickly put out a response denying any connection with Ashley Madison and (correctly) pointing out that the email was not private: Included in the list of email accounts associated with accountholders, in addition to White House workers and several House and Capitol Police accounts, was one email account associated with Cruz’s Senate office. In 2015, hackers calling themselves the Impact team hacked adulterous dating site Ashley Madison’s email list, publishing the results on the open-source site Pastebin. The homepage of Ashley Madison, a website for aduletrers. While Buckingham Palace denied the report, Trump got weeks of free media retentionm and a brief correction in the New York Times a month later was barely noticed.įor her part, Pierson dismissed the idea of a scandal before she was named, in a manner that suggests no love lost between the two and blaming Rick Wilson of anti-Trump PAC Make America Awesome: In 1994, he told the press Prince Charles and Princess Diana of the United Kingdom would join his Mar-a-Lago country club. Trump has a history of taking advantage of massive media coverage using information later revealed as false. It feels to me like Trump dropped a whole lot of garbage over at the Enquirer to discredit Ted Cruz, and that sense is backed up even more by the fact that one of the lovely ladies is supposedly Donald Trump’s spokeswoman. The image above suggests that Katrina Pierson is one of his so-called mistresses, as well as others. The pictures they weakly disguise are pretty easy to match up with people. Her current employer and the timing of the announcement have led to skepticism about the story, including this bit from left-leaning blog Crooks and Liars: Katrina Pierson, a spokesperson for Donald Trump, is one of the women accused by the Enquirer of an affair with Cruz. Ted Cruz and Katrina Pierson during her 2014 Congressional campaign. ![]() Through the media, Cruz attributed the story to the Trump campaign and adamantly denied the claims: But there are plenty of reasons to be more than a little skeptical of the Enquirer’s report. ![]() The “story” has dominated Twitter, with #CruzSexScandal trending worldwide and allegations of hush money and questions about what the other candidates knew flying, especially in light of Cruz’s recent high-profile spat with Donald Trump over the use of Melania Trump’s photo in campaign ads. Internet detectives claim to have identified three of the five women whose pixelated likenesses appear in the Enquirer story, two of whom worked on other candidates’ campaigns in 2016 and one of whom worked for his own. While the Enquirer didn’t name any names and ran only pixelated photos, the Twittersphere has been rife with speculation and Internet detective work under the hashtag #CruzSexScandal. The National Enquirer’s March 25 issue features a potentially troubling accusation against 2016 Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz: a private investigator is looking into claims he’s been having an affair with five different women. Ted Cruz, here at a campaign event in Wisconsin, has been accused of having an affair with five women.
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