Ted Cruz Denies Having Affairs With Five Women; Accused Donald Trump Of Sponsoring The Slander

The National Enquirer accused Ted Cruz of five affairs - all of which he denied today.



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Ted Cruz today denied cheating on his wife with five women - and claimed it was Donald Trump and his 'henchmen' who were spreading a smear.

The Republican senator found himself facing extraordinary claims of five affairs after a story in the National Enquirer magazine became the subject of Washington gossip, and two women were named as potential mistresses by a Republican operative.

The Enquirer had never named the woman it accused Cruz of cheating on his wife Heidi with.

But then the woman behind an attack on Donald Trump earlier this week which featured a naked picture of his wife Melania named two women she said were alleged to be his mistress.

Liz Mair, a respected Republican strategist, used her Twitter to name Amanda Carpenter, a former spokeswoman for Trump who is now a CNN contributor, and a Trump spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, who is also a former Cruz aide.

Both denied the claim robustly - but it lit a fire which Cruz then had to act to put out.

Donald Trump's spokeswoman Katrina Pierson pushed back on allegations - that started with a National Enquirer story - that she had an affair and 'came on' to Sen. Ted Cruz

After leaving Ted Cruz's PR shop on the hill, Amanda Carpenter is a familiar conservative face on CNN

Donald Trump's spokeswoman Katrina Pierson wrote this tweet this morning after Republican strategist publicly named her as one of the five women the National Enquirer claimed had an affair with Sen. Ted Cruz

Republican strategist Liz Mair - whose super PAC Make America Awesome produced a controversial nude Melania Trump ad - outed Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson as one of the five women the National Enquirer suggested slept with Ted Cruz after Twitter users started identifying her

'That is [obviously] false, as anyone who knows Amanda knows,' Mair continued.

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Liz Mair also named CNN's Amanda Carpenter, a former communicators director for Sen. Ted Cruz, as one of the women whose blurred face appeared in the National Enquirer story

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