Daily Beast is pointing a finger at allies of Marco Rubio.
"""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.
"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."""
"""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"""
"""David Pecker--the CEO of American Media, Inc., which publishes theEnquirer--is tight with Trump."""
"""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.""""
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-s-allies.html
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