Allegations Ted Cruz engaged in extramarital affairs

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In 2016 the media widely covered allegations that Ted Cruz engaged in extramarital affairs.[1][2]

Cruz, who was then one of the Republicans competing to be his party's candidate for President, denied the allegations, and attributed them to rogue elements of the Donald Trump campaign.[2]

Jennifer Carr

The profile picture of a beautiful young university student was used on a fake Twitter account that sent out tweets claiming to be Cruz's mistress.

On April 1, 2016, reporters noted tweets from a beautiful woman, named Jennifer Carr, who claimed to be a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who reported she had had an affair with Cruz.[1] Reporters determined there was no one with this name, working for the LATIMES. Later that day the young woman whose image was used came forward, saying she had no connection with the fraud, and had never met Cruz.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "DePaul student unexpectedly tangled in alleged Ted Cruz sex scandal". ABC News Raliegh (Chicago). 2016-04-01. Archived from the original on 2021-01-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20210118225521/https://abc11.com/depaul-samantha-rivera-ted-cruz-mistress/1272097/. Retrieved 2022-01-21. "Rivera said someone used her picture and created a fake Twitter account claiming to be someone named Jennifer Carr, a writer for the Los Angeles Times. Carr isn't real, but whoever created the Twitter account tweeted that she was a mistress of the Texas senator." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Nicole Gaudiano (2016-03-25). "Ted Cruz blames Donald Trump for 'Enquirer' affairs story". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2020-08-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20200812215301/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/03/25/ted-cruz-blames-donald-trump-enquirer-affairs-story/82257996/. Retrieved 2022-01-21. "'I want to be crystal clear: these attacks are garbage,' Cruz wrote on his Facebook page. '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. 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. Donald Trump’s consistently disgraceful behavior is beneath the office we are seeking and we are not going to follow.'"