At a news conference while campaigning in Wisconsin today, Ted Cruz denied a recently released National Enquirer report that claims "political operatives" are looking into rumors that Cruz had multiple marital infidelities.
Cruz blamed the report on Donald Trump and his "henchmen" and gave Trump a new nickname of "Sleazy Donald."
“Let me be clear this National Enquirer story is garbage,” Cruz said today. “It is complete and utter lies. It is a tabloid smear and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen.”
"You know, Donald is fond of giving people nicknames," Cruz added. "With this pattern he should not be surprised to see people calling him 'Sleazy Donald.'"
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Cruz noted that the article quoted Roger Stone, who was Trump's longtime political adviser until he fired Stone in August of last year. Stone is quoted as saying that there may be possible political problems for Cruz with evangelical Christian supporters.
In a phone interview with ABC News, Roger Stone confirmed the accuracy of his quote in the National Enquirer report, but says he was only responding to what he’s been told and was not the original source of the Cruz rumors.
Cruz's wife, Heidi Cruz, introduced the Texas senator at his rally today in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, but was not with him when he spoke to reporters afterwards.
"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 wrote in a Facebook post Friday.
The National Enquirer allegations have not been confirmed by ABC News.
Cruz has been in a war of words with Trump over tweets Trump had been sending. Trump tweeted Tuesday he would "spill the beans" about Cruz's wife without providing further information and retweeted Wednesday a split photo of Heidi and his wife Melania Trump, with the text: “No need to 'spill the beans.’ The images are worth a thousand words.”
Cruz rebuked Trump on Thursday: "Donald you’re a sniveling coward and leave Heidi alone!"
And Heidi Cruz responded on Wednesday while on the stump for her husband, saying, "As you may know by now, there are a lot of things that Donald Trump and his campaign say that have no basis in reality."
Donald Trump sent out a statement this afternoon which reads, "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. 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. I look forward to spending the week in Wisconsin, winning the Republican nomination and ultimately the Presidency in order to Make America Great Again."
A man was shot during a tense police operation at a Brussels tram stop today amid authorities' anti-terror operations throughout the city.
It was not immediately clear why police engaged him, but video of the immediate aftermath obtained by ABC News includes a clip of the man being dragged away by police.
His condition was not immediately clear.
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In separate police operations, three people were arrested in the Brussels area this morning and several were detained last night. The intense police crackdown this week follows Tuesday's deadly attacks at the Brussels airport and metro subway. Thirty-one people were killed.
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