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Interview with a Candy Wrapper, the Lollipop Edition
It’s not often, I do a story myself. I have a team writers so I don’t have to. This leaves me the freedom to investigate and track leads. But this story is so hot, I felt I should do this one.
If you have been on twitter #cruzsexscandal has been over the top and widely circulated but let’s not forget the anonymous video released that promised if Cruz did not drop out his dirty secrets would come out. I can say this day has come, given the release from the National Enquirer. But Avenger has a leg up on everyone. Our anonymous source found one of the alleged escorts who Ted Cruz frequented. Her picture released in our previous story is not how she looks today. Let’s call her Jane Doe.
We were given the exclusive interview done by the detective that found her. We will not disclose her real identity nor her location, since the initial leak she has gone off the radar. She was found in a West Texas trailer park after a former escort feared that she would too become part of this drama and gave up her location. As promised, both identities are strictly confidential and shall remain anonymous. For now, we are just releasing some parts of this explosive transcript. An excerpt of his interview with our Jane Doe is transcribed below. Be forewarned it’s explosive. While we believe 100% that is true, we’re are advised to refer to the statements below as allegations. I do have the video of this conversation. Our job is to shed light and not to master.
Detective: As agreed during our interview, your identity and location will be kept secret, as sworn and recorded. When, did you first meet Ted Cruz?
Jane Doe: 2004, I was 18 and my regular client in Dallas gave him the contact. It is not unusual for this to happen, many clients for the service I worked with are lobbyist, donors, attorneys and politicians. That is why, I am scared for my life that you found me.
Detective: I will not disclose any location or your true identity, I found you because one of your former clients gave me the information. That led me to one of your associates that brought me here. I did this because if I can find you, others can as well. This interview is only to assure you are who they say you are. Your face will be not shown, nothing will be asked to directly identify you.
Detective: Did Ted Cruz ever tell you he was married?
Jane Doe: Some clients do and some do not, he never said anything about being married. He seemed to need mothering of some sort, before we engaged in some of his requested acts.
Detective: Requested acts?
Jane Doe: sometimes I would dress as a catholic school girl for role play, that is popular with many clients though. Other times he would request for me to dress like a judge.
Detective: I see, so would you say he is odd than other clients?
Jane Doe: Who am I to judge my clients? I just do what, I am paid for and go on my way.
Detective: What locations would you meet him?
Jane Doe: Houston/Dallas and I have been to Alexandria as well.
Detective: Virginia?
Jane Doe: Yes
Detective: How many times would he visit you within a week?
Jane Doe: In the beginning, it was every time he had business in either of the locations. He would even pay for my flights to Baltimore then rent a car for me to drive to Alexandria.
Detective: Have you ever seen his wife?
Jane Doe: Yes, many times were close calls. I guess that is why I am terrified how I was found.
Detective: I only found you because of your friend/associate. I think she is about to leave as well.
Jane Doe: After this, I will have to move again. I am leaving Texas and I wished I had never met him. I never experienced this kind of problem as an escort. I knew, when he said he was going to run for president that I would be at risk. As a senator, I was not worried. I have met many politicians doing this service but never had my life been at risk.
Detective: You have my contact so you can reach me if you need help. Let’s get back to talking about Ted more.
Did anyone give you a specific phone at any time for contact?
Jane Doe: yes, until recently. I was getting weird calls with no way to call it back. The number would be local and I would answer to silence. None of the calls were of the same number, so I threw away the phone.
Detective: So, you are saying this is why you feel threatened?
Has he ever called you recently?
Jane Doe: Yes, it is why I feel threatened and No, he has not called since January. This is when all the strange calls started.
At this time, we are deciding to either pass this on to syndicated publication or what are our legal options. We will update once a decision is made.
https://avengersocial.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/interview-with-a-candy-wrapper-the-lollipop-edition/
HAS ANONYMOUS DROPPED TED CRUZ ‘DC MADAM’ PHONE DOX?
witter accounts claiming to be allied with Anonymous have dropped alleged phone records of late DC madam Deborah Palfrey, showing Ted Cruz used her services.
One of the several Twitter accounts tied to the hacktivist group, @0Hour1, tauntingly posted a screenshot of the call log, with Texas calls highlighted:
Hey Teddy Cruz #Anonymous#CruzSexScandal
We dont DDOS
or bluff! will let the rest of you figure out the document! pic.twitter.com/nnuRioGutv
— 0 (@0Hour1) April 1, 2016
Other accounts are sharing a more detailed record through torrents, which appear to be circulating widely.
http://www.therightperspective.org/2016/04/01/has-anonymous-dropped-ted-cruz-dc-madam-phone-dox/
Cruz Not Only Won't Seal Border, He WILL Shower With Gifts
TheMArketTicker.com
April 2, 2016
Ted Cruz is just one big lie.
One of the worst is his claim that he will "seal and protect our borders" from illegal immigration.
He wants you to believe that.
What he really stands for is something else entirely, and it's proved by the fact that in 2014, just before he decided to run for President, he was handing out gift baskets to illegal immigrants in Texas.
Here's photographic evidence:
Yes, that's Ted.
By the way, Glenn Beck was doing it too, in fact it was the charity he founded that organized it, and he wasn't trying to hide it either.
Want another one?
But don't worry, Cruz really doesn't believe that these people should be here.
Surrrrree he doesn't.
These people don't want it stopped. They just want the photo-op.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231292
Here It Comes, Ted Cruz!
TheMarketTicker
Karl Denninger
April 2, 2016
Oh oh....
From yesterday there was a potentially-explosive claim that file(s) from the DC Madam implicated someone in the Presidential race.
The file itself was potentially-boobytrapped; my original (and cursory) scans showed the risk of material harm, and since I didn't happen to have laying around either the time or a machine I could "toss at it over a safe network and then immediately format it" I haven't grabbed it.
But.....
This now is blowing up in the media.
Rachel Maddow and others are on this. But the file allegedly out there now has also allegedly been grabbed (despite the risk; heh, some people just can't resist either out of not knowing the risk or don't care) and, allegedly, Cruz's private numbers are on it. The problem with this alleged data is that the previously known AT&T records don't coincide with this list. I thus cannot cross-reference it and there are enough little "tells" in the supposed invoice compared against other known-legit pages that I'm suspicious as to the providence of the claimed page.
In addition supposedly Ashely Madison had an account from a Cruz-linked official email address registered on it too. That one was brushed aside by the media, and perhaps it should have been, unless the account was paid or confirmed, which would be hard evidence that someone (hi Ted!) was actually interactive with it. After all, you could easily put editor@market-ticker.org into Ashley Madison and then try to claim I had such an account (although being both unmarried and presently single, I would chuckle at the presumption that I was cheating you were trying to create.)
However, if in fact that alleged list of numbers already found does include Cruz's private phone numbers and the list itself is legitimate, and/or the Verizon list that the DC Madam's attorney wants leave of the court to release and is threatening to release even if they refuse to grant him said relief contains Ted Cruz's phone numbers, well.....
Gee, Ted, are you going to try to claim that you were calling the DC Madam to have a conversation about how she should stop pimping out escorts or will we have an immediate and obvious explanation for why you haven't and won't sue The National Enquirer for their story? Never mind Carly Fiorina's recent gatekeeping performance.... so were you in on it Carly, or did Ted dupe you too -- and if the latter, where's your righteous indignation aimed not at the press, but at Cruz?
Just asking questions, you know..... especially considering that Ted Cruz's raison d'etre for being in the Presidential race is his supposed "Conservative" Christianity and religious values which, I remind you, includes marital fidelity.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231291
Ted Cruz ‘Affair’ Rumors Peddled by Marco Rubio’s Allies
March 27, 2016
The senator accused Donald Trump of planting a National Enquirer sex scandal story. If that’s true, Trump wasn’t the only Cruz opponent trying to traffic in smears.
If you enjoy daydreaming about Ted Cruz’s sex life, then today is your lucky day.
The National Enquirer alleged on March 23 that the senator has had five extramarital affairs. And the descriptions it provided of the women—along with barely-pixelated headshots of them—left little to D.C. insiders’ imaginations as to who the Enquirer had accused of being Cruz paramours.
“A HOOKER, A TEACHER & COWORKERS: 5 romps that will destroy Ted Cruz!” the Enquirer piece boldly claims, in an article that includes a wild “sex-in-closet” allegation.
Cruz fired back on Friday, charging that the piece was baseless and that the Enquirer was taking its marching orders straight from “Donald Trump and his henchmen.”
“We got it from a Rubio ally,” said the source. “It was too thin, so [Breitbart’s Washington political editor Matt Boyle] decided not to run it. There was no way to verify the claims.”
A Rubio spokesman wasn’t immediately available for comment.
The Cruz campaign team has been aware of the sex-scandal rumors for months. But it took the National Enquirer’s report to force the story into the mainstream media conversation.
Friday afternoon, Trump disavowed any connection to the Enquirer’s story—while giving their credibility a backhanded boost.
“I have no idea whether or not the cover story about Ted Cruz in this week’s issue of the National Enquirer is true or not, but I had absolutely nothing to do with it, did not know about it, and have not, as yet, read it,” he said in a statement.
He then proceeded to praise the publication.
“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,” he said.
The truth behind the rumor-mongering, however, is a little more complex. A half-dozen GOP operatives and media figures tell The Daily Beast that Cruz’s opponents have been pushing charges of adultery for at least six months now—and that allies of former GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio were involved in spreading the smears.
For months and months, anti-Cruz operatives have pitched a variety of #CruzSexScandal stories to a host of prominent national publications, according to Republican operatives and media figures. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Politico, and ABC News—reporters at all those outlets heard some version of the Cruz-is-cheating story. None of them decided to run with rumors. Those publications’ representatives all declined to provide on-the-record comments when The Daily Beast reached out for this article.
Breitbart News, the notoriously Trump-friendly conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruz’s extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. That source said an operative allied with Marco Rubio—but not associated with his official campaign—showed the publication a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the outlet opted not to report on the video, which demonstrated no direct evidence of an affair.
You can’t blame Cruz for seeing Trump’s tiny fingerprints on the story—and it’s fully plausible that the mogul or one of his allies (rather than a Rubio booster) gave the story to the tabloid. After all, the supermarket tabloid is, for all intents and purposes, the Trump Train’s caboose.
“TRUMP MUST BE PREZ!” began the Enquirer’s endorsement of the mogul, published earlier this month. “INSIDE: VOTE FOR HIS VICE PRESIDENT!” (One of the options is Sen. Cruz, who the publication had previously dubbed, “Boozin’ Ted.”)
In that same issue, the editors call Marco Rubio “NERDY.” The issue, dated March 14, 2016, also features bombshell exposes on the Illuminati taking control of Hollywood to erect a “totalitarian world government,” as well as Dr. Phil’s “REIGN OF TERROR.”
David Pecker—the CEO of American Media, Inc., which publishes the Enquirer—is tight with Trump.
Trump has repeatedly praised Pecker and tweeted several times in 2013 that his pal should be named the new CEO of Time magazine.
The tabloid has provided Trump’s presidential bid with glowing coverage, and has been rewarded with “exclusive” interviews. In January, “America’s most popular presidential candidate” gave a two-part interview on the “most intimate details of [his] amazing life!” Trump is even an occasional National Enquirer contributor.
“Trump is a big friend of Pecker,” an anonymous source told the New York Daily News, claiming that the billionaire reality TV star is “protected” by the Enquirer. “So no John Edwards-type investigations… Some of the staff are furious.
Trump’s such fertile ground, and it drives them crazy to not only be staying away from it, but running puff pieces for him.”
A source close to the tabloid also told New York magazine in October that Trump’s campaign was the source for an Enquirer cover story on one of the mogul’s former rivals.
“Bungling Surgeon Ben Carson Left Sponge in Patient’s Brain!” the headline bellowed. (The Trump campaign and Pecker flatly denied this allegation.)
The Enquirer has also savaged other Trump foes, including Rubio, Cruz, Carly Fiorina, and Jeb Bush. It recently reported that Bush, as governor of Florida, was embroiled in “sleazy cheating scandals… [with a] Playboy Bunny turned lawyer,” a rumor Bush publicly denied over a decade ago.
“There have been few presidential candidates in recent history that have generated the kind of discussion that Donald Trump has,” Pecker told The Daily Beast this month. “It’s no surprise that the readership of the Enquirer recently told us that they wanted to read more about Trump than any other 2016 candidate. The coverage of the Enquirer reflects what its 6 million readers want, and expect, from the publication which has shown no hesitation in presenting an unvarnished look at past or current candidates for president.”
But unvarnished isn’t the same thing as true. Cruz and several of the women accused in the Enquirer’s story have denied its lurid claims.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/ted-cruz-affair-rumors-peddled-by-marco-rubio-s-allies.html
#LIAR-TED CRUZ!
:)
- Go USA
Ted Cruz: busTED
Ted Cruz had an Ashley Madison account: The only Senator with same.
Cruz's office denies it, but.....
Cruz plays dangerous game in Wisconsin
He’s suffered from inflated expectations before. Now he’s making that gamble again.
By Katie Glueck
03/24/16
(stupid is as stupid does,..and Ted Cruz does stupid with Pythagorean accuracy ~ nlightn)
Ted Cruz’s campaign manager predicted Cruz would win Iowa “outside the margin of error.” Marco Rubio stole the spotlight. Cruz himself predicted that Super Tuesday’s slew of southern primaries would be the firewall against Donald Trump’s surging campaign. Trump thumped him.
Now Cruz is playing the same high-stakes expectations game again in Wisconsin, with his campaign talking up a primary election win that Cruz badly needs — but can’t promise to deliver.
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“Absolutely, Cruz will win Wisconsin,” said state Rep. Bob Gannon, one of his Wisconsin co-chairs.
An internal campaign memo from mid-March, that found its way to many reporters, was only slightly less cautious: “Based on internal polling and proximity to neighboring states in which Cruz has already won, our Campaign is in a strong position to win both Utah and Wisconsin,” the memo read.
But the few polls that have been conducted suggest Wisconsin is a wide-open race. And this time, if Cruz falls short of expectations again, there will be no safety net to catch him. After Wisconsin’s April 5 primary, the race heads to a string of northeastern states that are unfriendly territory for the Texas senator.
Winning Wisconsin, on the other hand, would be a huge boon for Cruz. Forty-two delegates are at stake, and Wisconsin’s primary rules means the victor takes almost all of them. Not only would that severely complicate Trump’s quest to get to 1,237 delegates, a purple-state win would also go a long way toward proving Cruz can win outside the deeply conservative states where his wins have been concentrated so far.
Cruz is pulling out all the stops in the hopes of making his Wisconsin gamble pay off.
He is opening field offices across the state; he has campaign chairs in nearly every county in Wisconsin; and both he and his wife, Heidi, have campaigned there this week. He’s even opening “Camp Cruz,” a space for out-of-state volunteers.
He’s getting support from other big names in the party too, now that some prominent party leaders have settled on Cruz as the lone viable anti-Trump alternative. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has indicated he could endorse as soon as this weekend. And after winning Utah Tuesday with the help of Mitt Romney and other state power players, Cruz got Jeb Bush’s endorsement Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Cruz's Wisconsin leadership team is seeking to lock down former backers of Marco Rubio, who enjoyed significant support in the state legislature.
They are hopeful that as Cruz continues to rack up his delegate totals, a significant slice of the formerly pro-Rubio contingent will come on board, seeing Cruz as the party's most viable alternative to Trump, especially given that Ohio Gov. John Kasich is stuck at 143 delegates and only one win — his home state.
“We’re definitely seeing a migration over to Cruz now that Rubio dropped out,” said state Sen. Duey Stroebel, Cruz’s campaign chair in the state who is courting, among others, Speaker Robin Vos, previously a prominent Rubio backer. “It’s an ongoing process.”Cruz’s strongest asset, however, may be the strong “Never Trump” movement that began earlier and more aggressively in Wisconsin than did the national efforts to halt the GOP frontrunner's march to the nomination. It is led by prominent local conservative radio hosts like Charlie Sykes, and also embraced by Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, both of whom are now backing Cruz.
“The heart of the Republican vote in Wisconsin is in suburban Milwaukee, and that area in particular has been hostile to Trump,” said Mark Graul, a longtime Wisconsin-based GOP strategist unaligned this cycle.
“A leading factor is that conservative media, particularly talk radio, has been very anti-Trump from the start, and that those voices have gone from being anti-Trump to being pro-Cruz, as the election now comes to Wisconsin, that will be very beneficial to Sen. Cruz in areas where probably 40 percent of the Republican vote comes from in two weeks,” a reference to suburban counties around Milwaukee.
Still, Cruz’s team has plenty to overcome.
Demographically, the state should favor Trump, who tends to do better with blue-collar workers: according to exit polls from the 2012 GOP primary in the state, 57 percent of those who voted had no college degree and 98 percent were white. Sixty-two percent were not evangelical Christians.
Trump could also benefit from the fact that Wisconsin is an open primary, meaning voters with any party registration, rather than just committed Republican voters, can participate. State officials said earlier this week that they expect voter turnout to hit 40 percent on April 5, a number not seen since 1980 in Wisconsin—and high turnout is often good news for Trump, who tends to draw voters with little previous involvement in the political process.
“We expect Donald Trump to bring new voters to the polls – for and against – in the Republican Presidential Preference Primary,” said Kevin J. Kennedy, Wisconsin’s chief elections official, in a statement posted by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a caucus night rally, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in Las Vegas.
Two major ex-Bush donors now backing Cruz
By KATIE GLUECK
And as long as Kasich, a fellow Midwesterner, remains in the Wisconsin race, there remains the risk that he dilutes Cruz’s alternative-to-Trump message by offering another option to voters who see Cruz as too conservative or unelectable in a general election. His campaign in the state is run by former Gov. Tommy Thompson.
State insiders are well aware of Kasich’s threat to play spoiler.
“For those who are not wanting to vote for Trump, Cruz is probably the leader in the pack, but he’s going to have to work on that, because I don’t think he’s well-known in Wisconsin—that’s why he’s going to have to run a good campaign,” said Graul, the unaligned GOP strategist. “Otherwise, Kasich is probably better-known, and might be in a spot to take some of those votes.”
“But if Cruz does the right things over the next two weeks,” Graul said, “that should put him in a strong position to win the state.”
His team, as they made clear last week, is counting on it.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/ted-cruz-wisconsin-expectations-221220#ixzz446pISGzn
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Trump Aide "Spills The Beans" On Heidi Cruz As Media Goes Crazy Over #CruzSexScandal
March 26, 2016
The "wife" feud, which initially many though was merely a sideshow between Donal Trump and Ted Cruz, has taken a quick turn for the ugly and is escalating dramatically with every passing day, and now that even the National Enquirer has entered the fray, has rapidly devolved to nothing less than the surreal twilight zone.
For those who need a primer of what is rapidly becoming the biggest "issue" in the presidential race, here is a reminder, courtesy of our post from last night "Tough Guy Ted Warns "Sniveling Coward" Trump: "Leave My Wife Alone":
Phase 1: Cruz Reps "Cross The Line", when a "SuperPAC" run by a Cruz supporter launched a Trump ad campaign showcasing a naked posing Melania Trump
Phase 2: Trumps Warns Cruz: "Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!"
Phase 3: Cruz firez back, warning Trump: Don't Do The Same Thing To Me That [My Reps] Just Did To You (Or Else!).
Phase 4: Trump Goes There, retweeting an image "comparing" Heidi Cruz and Melania Trump
Phase 5: Cruz Goes Full Rambo, says 'Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi alone.'
Or, as we summed up, "a Cruz fan uses naked images of Trump's wife to disparage him to saintly 'Utah-ans'; Trump pissed; Cruz warns Trump not to reciprocate; Trump shows ugly picture of Cruz's wife; Cruz unleashes inner Hulk as Trump dares to do what Cruz reps did to him."
That was just the last few days.
And then the tabloids jumped on board.
Overnight, Trump-linked National Enquirer, alleged that the Texas senator is "hiding five different mistresses." According to its source, identified as a "Washington insider," "private detectives are digging into at least five affairs Ted Cruz supposedly had," and "the leaked details are an attempt to destroy what's left of his White House campaign." The supposed affairs are detailed in the Enquirer's most recent print issue.
Though unconfirmed, the rumor sparked chatter across social media Friday with the hashtag #CruzSexScandal, with reactions, as expected, ranging from one end of the spectrum to the other.
Considering the source, we doubt there is much veracity to the alleged "Cruz sex scandal", although the tabloid has had its share of "broken" news stores in the past.
As was to be expected, Cruz immediately denounced the article as "garbage, complete and utter lies" and accused his opponent Donald Trump of being the source of the story as Reuters reports.
"It's tabloid smear, and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen," a clearly perturbed Cruz told reporters at a press conference in Wisconsin, as the battle for the Republican presidential nomination reached new levels of personal rancor.
Trump issued a statement saying he was not responsible for the article.
"I have nothing to do with the National Enquirer and unlike Lyin' Ted Cruz I do not surround myself with political hacks and henchman and then pretend total innocence," Trump said in the statement. "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."
In other words, just as Cruz had "nothing" to do with the first naked photo of Melania that started off this latest scandal, so Trump had "nothing" to do with the Enquirer article.
Alas, the damage for Cruz may already have been done: the article exploded on Twitter overnight on Thursday. By Friday morning #CruzSexScandal was a worldwide trending topic on Twitter.
And while Trump has distanced himself from the Enquirer article, very much the same way Cruz distanced himself from the original attack ad, an aide to Donald Trump on Friday did fulfil the businessman's threat to "spill the beans" on Republican presidential rival Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi.
As The Hill first reported, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson rattled off a list of attacks three days after Trump first made the threat.
"Spilling the beans is quite simple when it comes to Heidi Cruz," Pierson said in an interview with MSNBC's Steve Kornacki.
"She is a Bush operative; she worked for the architect of NAFTA, which has killed millions of jobs in this country; she was a member on the Council on Foreign Relations who — in Sen. Cruz's own words, called a nest of snakes that seeks to undermine national sovereignty; and she's been working for Goldman Sachs, the same global bank that Ted Cruz left off of his financial disclosure," Pierson said.
"Her entire career has been spent working against everything Ted Cruz says that he stands for," she added.
Cruz spokeswoman Alice Stewart responded to the remarks in a statement to The Hill, saying, "There's no low the Trump campaign won't go."
Earlier in the MSNBC interview, Pierson said "this isn't about Heidi Cruz, this is about Melania Trump. Melania Trump was the one that was attacked."
Incidentally, she is right, even though that means that this most hypnotic scandal in the republican presidential primary race - and perhaps any US presidential race yet - is nowhere close to over as neither candidate can possibly concede defeat on a topic that is "near and dear" to the heart as one's wife.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-25/trump-spokeswoman-spills-beans-heidi-cruz-media-goes-crazy-over-cruzsexscandal
Anonymous Threatens To Expose Ted Cruz Prostitution Scandal
March 26, 2016
There were many shots fired yesterday as the "wife feud" between Donald (and Melania) Trump and Ted (and Heidi) Cruz hit new lows, dragging none other than the National Enquirer tabloid into it and escalating the #CruzSexScandal into one of the most talked about topics on social media.
To be sure, Trump washed his hands of the affair saying "I have nothing to do with the National Enquirer and unlike Lyin' Ted Cruz I do not surround myself with political hacks and henchman and then pretend total innocence. 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."
Cruz was adamant, repeating that the Enquirer article linking him to five women is "garbage, complete and utter lies" and that "it's tabloid smear, and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen," a perturbed Cruz told reporters at a press conference in Wisconsin.
On this one occasion, however, Trump may be telling the truth because the source of the original Cruz rumor is none other than Donald Trump's old nemesis, the same hacker collective which recently released his social security and phone number, Anonymous.
As the following YouTube clip released on March 15, the Anonymous hacker group warned Ted Cruz last week to leave the race "or else."
As part of its #OpCruz assault, the hacker collective threatened to release information on Cruz engaging with prostitutes if he did not leave the race. Some of the highlights from the clip:
Mr. Cruz, we are now demanding that you exit this race within 24 hours, or Anonymous will release all of the information we have found.
It’s time that we tell America what’s hiding behind the curtain.
Have you heard of the expression “candy wrappers”? Do you recall visiting prostitutes?
Mr. Cruz, we are now demanding you exit this race immediately or Anonymous will release all of the information that we have found. Your so-called underground acts that you think were done in the dark, will be brought out for all the public to see. It will be sent to every media outlet to publicize your disgusting behavior.
We assure you it will go viral on every social media platforms in a matter of minutes. Mr. Cruz your disgusting campaign ends now; your campaign to gain power with ulterior motives that include your wife will also be exposed.
There is nothing from your past that won't haunt you."
In other words, the Anonymous #OpCruz started long before Trump and the Enquirer got involved, and in fact was already active when the Cruz SuperPAC released the first naked photo of Melania Trump early last week.
Judging by a twitter account linked to anonymous, it may well have been an Anonymous leak to the Enquirer that started it all, in which case all of Cruz' accusations aimed at Trump (such as even this most bizarre one) are slanderous, although there is no way to know for sure.
The question now is whether Anonymous will carry through with its threat, and release the factual backing of its accusations either directly or via media outlets, just as it did in its feud with Trump, or will it quietly back down.
The latest tweets from the Anonymous-linked twitter account suggest that something big may be indeed imminent:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-26/anonymous-threatens-expose-ted-cruz-prostitution-scandal
Big Money — If Not the GOP Establishment — Has Been With Ted Cruz From the Start
March 26, 2016
TED CRUZ IS TRUE HUMAN LYING GARBAGE ~ nlightn
Ted Cruz, effectively anointed by Jeb Bush this week as the Republican party’s last best hope to stop Donald Trump from becoming its presidential nominee, was emphatically not the standard bearer the GOP establishment had in mind at the beginning of this campaign.
The brash Texas senator’s anti-Washington rhetoric — often aimed at leaders of his own party — made him a tea party favorite and has won him an impressive network of small donors. Contributors of $200 or less made up nearly 42 percent of the $66.2 million in individual contributions that Cruz has raised so far for his presidential campaign committee. These grassroots donors are the kind who have the commitment to show up at the polls.
Rather than deploying a single mammoth super PAC… Cruz’s supporters set up several groups that each took gifts from different donors and had distinct assignments.
Cruz represents a unique double fundraising threat, though. From early on, he has also attracted big money — six-, seven- and even eight-figure checks that have gone to super PACs organized to support him. Eight groups have brought in a combined $52 million so far in pro-Cruz money. In fact, he’s the candidate most of the largest donors this cycle have backed.
For the super PACS that have been backing Cruz the longest — a quartet whose names are all variations on “Keep the Promise” — just six donors account for 79 percent of their total fundraising. Three billionaire families gave $36 million to Keep the Promise I, II and III.
These are the donors whose gifts are helping keep Cruz competitive this late in the game. His own presidential campaign committee, which — unlike the super PACs — can’t take donations totaling more than $5,400 from an individual in the 2016 election cycle, has spent down much of its money; there was $17 million in the bank as of March 1. But Cruz can take comfort in piles of unused super PAC cash sitting in the bank: At the beginning of March, the groups had nearly $20 million waiting to be spent.
Rather than deploying a single mammoth super PAC, like those that have been behind most of the other White House contenders, Cruz’s supporters set up several groups that each took gifts from different donors and had distinct assignments. Keep the Promise I, for instance, was largely the purview of Long Island hedge fund CEO Robert Mercer, who sank a tidy $11 million into the group. A computer programmer turned investor, Mercer manages Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that’s battling the IRS over what the feds contend are tax dodges. His eclectic interests were outlined in a lengthy profile earlier this year on Bloomberg Politics. Keep the Promise I was the most active of the groups early on in the process, spending down most of its money on media and direct mail, and leaving just $422,562 in the bank as March began.
Not a problem, though, since Keep the Promise II and Keep the Promise III have largely kept their powder dry so far. Keep the Promise II, which was meant to use its funds for television ad buys, has yet to spend nearly $9 million of its stash. Entrepreneur Toby Neugebauer, a relative newcomer to the top tier of political giving who is an energy investor and the founder of an engineering company, is the group’s sole contributor, having thrown $10 million into the pot. Neugebauer, who moved to Puerto Rico after the territory set up a tax break that’s attracted the super-rich, is the son of conservative Texas Congressman Randy Neugebauer.
Keep the Promise III, tasked largely with digital organizing though it was recently spending money on robocalls in Michigan, similarly received 98 percent of its funds — $15 million — from four members of the Texan Wilks family and has $9.4 million left. Brothers Dan and Farris Wilks became billionaires when they sold their business providing trucks and other equipment to frackers; Farris Wilks is pastor of a fundamentalist church in rural central Texas. They have never before contributed anything like the sums they forked over for the pro-Cruz groups at the federal level.
With their leftover funds, Keep the Promise I and Keep the Promise III recently announced plans to consolidate into one super PAC to re-up their fundraising effort. Trusted Leadership PAC, the new umbrella group, won’t include Neugebauer’s Keep the Promise II.
The constellation of outside spending groups (which aren’t supposed to coordinate their strategies with the Cruz campaign) have in one sense made Cruz this cycle’s most successful beneficiary of big money backing. Three of the five families giving the most money to outside groups — of whom four are conservative — picked Cruz as their top choice in the Republican presidential primary. The Keep the Promise groups secured huge contributions, including the eight-figure gifts from the Wilks family, Neugebauer and Mercer, by mid-April 2015.
Even former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who was deeply involved with the super PAC juggernaut Right to Rise USA behind him, couldn’t compete at that level. The $100 million fundraising blitz Bush led for the group before becoming an official candidate produced just one donor who gave more than $10 million: Hank Greenberg, the man behind C.V. Starr & Co. and at least $15 million in contributions to presidential super PACs.
Super PACs fat with cash haven’t saved the candidacies of several Republicans who’d been expected to do better this cycle, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and of course Bush. Equally true, though: It’s highly unlikely that any Republican candidate — with the exception of the one with vast wealth of his own to spend — can succeed without one.
http://billmoyers.com/story/big-money-if-not-the-gop-establishment-has-been-with-ted-cruz-from-the-start/
The End Times Hunger Games Rafael Cruz Style
This is going to the SC.
The 4 Must-Follow Lawsuits Challenging Cruz’s Presidential Eligibility
Donald Trump has a habit of causing controversy, and his remarks on Ted Cruz‘s Presidential eligibility have been no exception. Trump’s accusations have created an unwelcomed distraction for the Texas Senator and, now, several lawsuits across the country are seeking answers.
When Trump first floated the question over Cruz’s eligibility in a January debate, he did so nonchalantly, asking, “Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years? That’d be a big problem.” Classic Donald, stirring the pot and letting it sit. That’s when Cruz’s poll numbers rose and Trump turned up the accusatory rhetoric. Since January 17, Trump has made inflammatory threats of litigation over Cruz’s Canadian-birth and the question of whether Cruz is a “natural born citizen” five times.
It appears for Cruz, lawsuits, or threats of lawsuits, are coming at a faster rate then even Trump can threaten with. Legal scholars and the media have waffled over whether Trump actually has standing to sue Cruz, or seek a declaratory judgment on the question of his eligibility. However, it appears Trump has inspired some citizens and followers to do the dirty work.
Of the litany of filed suits, four in particular pass muster, either by creatively suing a state election board, scaring Cruz’s campaign into a response, or originating from lawyers in pursuit of more than political gamesmanship or political frivolity. Here’s what we know.
Illinois: Separate lawsuits filed by Lawrence Joyce, an Illinois pharmacist and attorney, and William K. Graham, have forced the Cruz campaign to respond to the idea of an eligibility conundrum through a motion to dismiss. Joyce, a Ben Carson supporter, filed a complaint with the Illinois State Board of Elections to remove the former Texas Solicitor General from the state ballot. The Board of Elections dismissed the complaint and Joyce sued. The appeal is expected to be heard Friday in Cook County Circuit by Judge Maureen Ward Kirby.
New York: Two New Yorkers, Barry Korman and William Gallo, filed a complaint last Wednesday in New York state court in Manhattan alleging that the junior Senator should be disqualified from the New York Republican primary set for April 19. Like in Illinois, Cruz is not a named defendant, rather the suit requests that the New York State Board of Elections have Cruz’s name struck from the ballot.
Texas: No love for the hometown candidate in The Lone Star State. Newton B. Schwartz, Sr., an 85-year-old Houston lawyer, filed suit back in January seeking a declaratory judgment in the U.S. District Court in Southern District of Texas over Cruz’s Presidential eligibility. Schwartz, an apparent Bernie Sanders supporter, said to The Hill, “However persuasive one finds each side in this debate, the final decision ultimately rests in the hands of five or more of nine Justices on the Supreme Court as mandated by the Constitution.” Clearly, Schwartz spoke prior to the shocking and politically salient death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Utah: Walter L. Wagner, a Utah citizen and trained lawyer, also filed a complaint in January in federal district court seeking a declaratory judgment. Wagner’s suit, like the others, rests on the accusation that Cruz is not a “natural born citizen” because Cruz was born in Canada. “I’m a natural-born citizen, and most people are in this country, and it just doesn’t seem proper,” Wagner told BuzzFeed News.
Derek T. Muller, an Associate Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law, has a complete tally of the pending “natural born citizen” challenges and litigation against Cruz—and Rubio for that matter—on his blog Excess of Democracy.
Additional challenges have been filed in Indiana, New Hampshire, New York, Alabama, Arkansas, and Vermont. Some of those have already been dismissed.
If nothing else, Trump has effectively shifted the attention away from substance and towards the ‘will he or will he not get kicked off’ reality TV flair of this election cycle, a strategy that suits the billionaire’s style well.
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/the-4-must-follow-lawsuits-challenging-cruzs-presidential-eligibility/
here is some of the most insane, narcissistic and psychotic religious bullsheit that i've ever heard,...
and this man has a following who will gulp down the purple kool-aid,...
absolutely stupid people,..like Ben Franklin stated
Cruz Father: Ted Cruz "Anointed" To "Bring the Spoils of War to the Priests"
More dangerous than Trump!
Meet The People Behind Ted Cruz’s Terrifying Foreign Policy Plan
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is set to announce his foreign policy advisers, according to a new report by Bloomberg’s Eli Lake — and the list thus far includes some very controversial figures.
Cruz has previously called for carpet-bombing the Middle East to combat ISIS, said the United States should send troops to Iraq and Syria, and said something is torture only when it causes “pain equivalent to losing organs and systems.” Still, the list of advisers were surprising to many.
Here are three of the most shocking names:
Frank Gaffney, who served in the Department of Defense under President Reagan, was named as a foreign policy adviser for Cruz, according to Bloomberg. Gaffney is a major proponent of conspiracy theories, and has been described as “one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Perhaps one of Gaffney’s favorite theories is the connection of politicians to the Muslim Brotherhood. In the past, he has accused Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, as well as President Obama, of having connections to the group. In an interview with The Daily Beast in July 2012, Gaffney said the Muslim Brotherhood was waiting to seize power in Washington, D.C., a moment which he called “zero hour.” He also told the publication that President Obama, whose citizenship and religion he has questioned in the past, is not Muslim but is “sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood supremacist agenda — I think that is now beyond dispute.”
A year earlier, Gaffney had called for a new House committee, modeled on Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s House Committee on Un-American Activities, dedicated to investigating “the extent to which the Obama administration’s anti-American activities reflect the success of the toxic Muslim Brotherhood… in penetrating and subverting both U.S. government agencies and civil institutions.”
The organization Gaffney founded and has led since leaving public service, the Center for Security Policy, has also been noted for its promotion of conspiracy theories by CNN, the International Business Times, Salon, the Washington Post, and countless others.
Recently, it was responsible for an unreliable poll which Republican candidate Donald Trump said in a statement found that “’25 percent of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad’ and 51 percent of those polled ‘agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.'”
According to the Bloomberg report, three of Gaffney’s colleagues at the Center for Security Policy are also on Cruz’s list of foreign policy advisers: former CIA officers Fred Fleitz and Clare Lopez as well as former Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Jim Hanson. Like their boss, all three believe in the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of the U.S. government, and have even connected the non-profit Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to the organization.
Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan administration official involved in the Iran-contra scandal, publicly endorsed Cruz last month. “We’re at war with a coalition of radical Islamists and radical secularists. It’s not all one thing, nor is Islam all one thing,” Ledeen told Bloomberg.
Ledeen is a current Freedom Scholar at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a former scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, whose involvement with Islamophobic ideologues ThinkProgress has previously documented.
He has been an avid supporter of U.S. military action and before 2003, he was a vocal supporter of regime change in various countries in the Middle East, including Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Just months before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he published a piece in the Wall Street Journal titled “The War on Terror Won’t End in Baghdad” in which he called for the “liberation” of people in those four countries and described the invasion of Iraq as a “just war.” “If we come to Baghdad, Damascus and Tehran as liberators, we can expect overwhelming popular support,” he wrote, before praising Donald Rumsfeld, a key architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Ledeen’s support for military action is overwhelming. In 2002, Jonah Goldberg noted that the bedrock tenet of the “Ledeen Doctine,” “in more or less his own words,” was that “every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” As The Intercept’s Murtaza Hussein also noted, in 2002, Ledeen also called for turning the entire Middle East into a “cauldron.”
Ledeen has focused specifically on regime change in Iran throughout his career. He previously served on the board of the Coalition for Democracy in Iran, an organization which worked with members of Congress to pass resolutions calling for regime change in the country in 2003 and 2004 and which blamed Iran for the insurgency in Iraq. Ledeen has also believed in and spread strange fabrications about the country. As independent political analyst Nima Shirazi has noted, during a debate at the Atlantic Council in March 2010, Ledeen said that the government had banned the color green after protests following Iran’s 2009 presidential election, due to its use by the opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
“You can’t wear green. I’m wearing green today as a sign of solidarity with them,” Ledeen said falsely at the debate. “But the funniest is that there are streets in Tehran — as I’m sure you’ve seen — which have green stripes on them to tell you where you can park and where you can’t, and there are now teams of people out spraying black on top of the green because you can’t have green. That is not a self-confident and stable regime… These are people who are scared to death even of a bit of colored paint on a sidewalk.”
Elliott Abrams, a leading neoconservative who served as Deputy Special to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser under President George W. Bush, was another shocking name on Bloomberg’s list of Cruz advisers.
A former Reagan administration official, Abrams was at the forefront of U.S. anti-Communist activities in Central America, which were plagued with human rights violations. In Nicaragua in particular, the International Court of Justice found the U.S. support of anti-communist rebels, as well as the mining of the country’s ports and waters, during the Reagan administration was a violation of international law. Salon called Abrams during that time “combative and arrogant” and “a proto-Donald Rumsfeld.”
Still, Abrams defended U.S. intervention in the region years later. “The violence [in the region] is ending now in part because of the collapse of Communism throughout the world, but more because Communist efforts to take power by force were resisted and defeated,” he wrote in an article in the National Review. “In this small corner of the Cold War, American policy was right, and it was successful.”
Heavily involved in the Iran-contra scandal, Abrams was indicted for his role in illegally raising money for the Nicaraguan Contras, and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor for withholding information from Congress as part of a plea deal. He was later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.
Abrams was also a key architect of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. “We recognize that military action in Iraq, if necessary, will have adverse humanitarian consequences,” he told CNN less than a month before the invasion. “We have been planning over the last several months, across all relevant agencies, to limit any such consequences and provide relief quickly.”
As a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Abrams often comments on Islam and the Middle East — which may be why he was picked by Cruz. He has been a vocal critic of the Iran nuclear deal and has previously blamed the rise of ISIS on President Obama’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/17/3761344/cruz-foreign-policy-advisers/
Lawsuit Challenging Ted Cruz's Eligibility For President Officially Filed
02/21/2016
Ted Cruz’ eligibility to run for president has been put to a test of legality. On Friday, the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago heard questions in a lawsuit challenging the Texas senator’s legal qualifications to determine if his bid for the nomination can continue.
Illinois attorney Lawrence Joyce sued after his previous attempt to dispute Cruz’ placement on the ballot with the state’s Board of Elections was dismissed on February 1.
Joyce reportedly supports Ben Carson in the race for president, and he maintains he has no connections to Donald Trump, who has also threatened to take action over questions of Cruz’ eligibility.
“The child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a U.S. citizen,” Cruz asserted in response to questions. Born in Canada to a noncitizen father and U.S. citizen mother, Cruz emphasized the issue of such eligibility dates back to the founding of the country. “Indeed the very first Congress … wrote the very first laws on citizenship,” he said. “And they explicitly defined the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad as a U.S. citizen.”
According to the Washington Times, Joyce’s concerns with Cruz hinge on the potential that he could garner the nomination, only to be challenged in court by the Democratic Party — when it would be too late.
“At that point, all of his fundraising would dry up. And his support in the polls would drop dramatically,” Joyce said. “He may be forced at that point to resign the nomination.”
At the heart of the issue is the term “natural-born,” the technicalities of which academics, politicians, and scholars of the Constitution have not agreed upon. Vox, which has published a detailed account of the minutiae in this debate, explained one potential avenue for resolution:
“Congress could at least stick some kind of bandage on the question by passing a ‘sense of the Congress’ resolution — that’s what it did in 2008 to affirm the eligibility of John McCain, who landed in the ‘natural-born’ gray zone for different reasons from Cruz. But the Senate has made it clear that it intends to do no such thing for Ted Cruz. This probably is less because they don’t think Cruz is natural-born than because Senate Republicans really don’t like Ted Cruz, but it’s a problem for him nonetheless.”
There were no reports indicating an expected date for the court’s ruling on the matter.
http://theantimedia.org/lawsuit-challenging-ted-cruzs-eligibility-for-president-officially-filed/
What Are The Rules of Evidence?
The Market Ticker
Feb. 20, 2016
Hmmmm...
Lawrence Joyce, an Illinois voter who has objected to Cruz's placement on the Illinois primary ballot next month, will have his case heard in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago. Joyce's previous objection, made to the state's Board of Elections, was dismissed on February 1.
The question before the bar ought to proceed in stages, with the first hurdle for Cruz to jump being whether or not he has facially-acceptable evidence that he's a citizen at all.
Specifically, does Cruz have (and can he produce) his CRBA? Ted Cruz admits he was born abroad to a citizen mother. That makes him a citizen unless his citizenship was renounced. The CRBA is his evidence that (1) he had citizenship from birth and (2) it was not renounced. If he does not have this document then the plaintiff should win right there, right now.
The only reason this comes up is that Teddy hasn't produced that for anyone to my knowledge as of yet. When challenged on his citizenship he produced his mother's birth certificate and his, which is Canadian, has also shown up.
The problem is that the law at the time in Canada prohibited, with few exceptions, dual nationality. Further, there is evidence that his mother was registered to vote in Canada. To be registered to vote one must of course be a citizen. If she took Canadian citizenship her birth certificate is immaterial because at the time she gave birth to Ted she was Canadian, not American.
The US State Department would have checked this to at least some degree before handing over a CRBA. That's the entire point of a CRBA -- to document that a person holding it is in fact a citizen because they were born to a citizen parent who held citizenship at the time the birth occurred even though they were not in the United States.
Cruz knows all this as he's an attorney, and from his own claims a pretty good and accomplished one. He could have put the question to rest immediately by releasing his CRBA, but instead he released his mother's birth certificate, which proves nothing at all regarding his citizenship status.
This will be interesting to watch, but the real fun only comes in if the court demands that Cruz pony up his CRBA -- which it damn well should, and if he refuses or is unable to do so said court should issue a summary judgment for the plaintiff.
Unfortunately for Cruz he has a further problem as regards natural born status, but we'll get to that once we dispose of the first question: Where is your documentation that you're a citizen AT ALL.
I am a big billy fan... Not so much a Hillary fan ...my prized possession (other than my kids & maybe a tie with my 72 cutlass conv. ) is the picture of us hanging in my bar at home... I met him 12 years ago at a library fundraiser in little rock...
...Ted in tx ... I don't think anyone here knows how right you are about being owned by Goldman sacks .. Of course the hickfks here would prob. say - well I ain't about to tell a man where he can shop for his suits... he has to wear nice suits for his work and all...
Rubio the robot is ... Well just that ... My wife has said all along he would win over on that end... I just wait for the day when he loses it and snaps while in a debate or with cameras rolling ... It will be big.
Have a great day- be cool
welcome fishreplicas1. well this entire 2016 presidental campaign is a TOTAL joke.
look at what we have to choose from,..on the Democratic side there is Hillary whom is bought and sold by the big banks and brokerage houses,...who has racked up speaking fees just this year of $12.5 million dollars and her total since sucking up to the banks is $125 million dollars,..for speaking fees. what could she be saying that these closed door meetings with institutions who are willing to pay speaking fees of $225,000 per speech. ya think she's kissing ass and as the saying goes, 'who knows what goes on behind closed doors.'
on the Republican side we have Trump whose hate and arrogance will get us in trouble domestically and internationally,... Cruz whom is also owned by Goldman Sachs,..Rubio (the policital punk whore of the bunch) is also bought and paid for by billionaires to do their bidding,...
the list goes on and on of individuals that have their right foot over the criminal/non criminal line,...
pathetic and sad and it looks like this nation is going down the tubes. we've got to get rid of these political whores and put the bankers who f*cked this nation over in jail,..now would be appropriate.
ok,..rant over,...
I am sad to say I live in Texas ... but not sad to say this is my favorite board on ihub ... I hope I was the first to follow a couple days ago! Thks
i understand. it's difficult for a trumpette to comprehend any idea outside their own little myopic world.
if you don't get it,..then you don't get it. can't assist you there. try thinking,..it works for most of us.
the trump ad, like the man himself, is bullsheit and filled with hate and lies.
guess that is what is attracting most white dudes that are living vicariously through trump.
here's a better ad,...
DUMP TRUMP and BE FREE AGAIN !
I dont get your point Ted Cruz liar ? ?? Trump make America great ad nice..
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