Ted Cruz has not taken legal action against the National Enquirer? Why doesn't Ted Cruz file legal actions against the National Enquirer or Donald Trump or your neighbor?
Once Senator Little Marco Rubio lost Florida, the money dried up and he blew off into the wind...the incentive for public airing of the Ted Cruz marital affairs was immediately diminished as it would only help Donald Trump, the elite republicans want Trump dead and buried, why help him..telling the sex stories about Ted Cruz?
Those within the #StopTrump campaign now preferring the sexual trysts did not surface because the damage only benefits Donald Trump, a candidate they despise and are working actively to defeat. Yes, some Marco people now hate that the story got out but everybody inside the GOP RNC Elite Establishment Republican party is pulling strings to get the story killed... You don't see much about it do you?
Many of the former political types who wanted to see the story surface have now joined Team Cruz and would prefer the story have stayed hidden. Cruz is in a lot of trouble but not from Heidi. Many speculate, just like Hillary Clinton, Heidi Cruz knew about the bad boy Cuban and just learned to take more pills and remain in denial for riches beyond our imagination.
Ted and Heidi, the beginning, they met on the 2000 George W. Bush campaign, when they worked three cubicles apart, and in the years since, they’d gone from an apartment in Northern Virginia to a 19th-floor condo in Houston to a series of three-star hotels in early-primary states. Heidi had taken an unpaid leave from her lucrative job at Goldman Sachs to join Ted on the trail.
But in the earliest days of their marriage, they weren’t always together. At a time when Ted Cruz felt unsatisfied with his track in Washington, he made a decision to take a high-profile job in Austin — as Texas’s solicitor general — that provided a testing ground for his conservative arguments but also forced him to move 1,500 miles from Heidi, who continued working at the Treasury Department in Washington. You see that Heidi is a big bank, big government girl and is helping the little Cuban climb the power and financial ladder. Ted had lots of time to make friends, of girls. How would Heidi find out?
The job ultimately helped to launch Ted Cruz’s political career. It also nearly backfired: He and Heidi weathered several years of strained, long-distance commuting. And when Heidi finally moved to Texas, the strain only grew. She fell into a depression, what Cruz calls the couple’s “difficult chapter.” This difficult chapter, main reason it seems, that they are both drunks or drub abusers? Ted Cruz is a drunk, a stone cold drunk and has a history, long deserved of being a bar hoping drunk. Heidi Cruz has some issues, mental disorders, depression problems, pills, booze etc. Together, they are power hungry, drunk or pilled up so you can imagine them having sex and martial problems. The Cuban Cruz likes to suck on toes, to each his own.
Cruz, now 45, looks back on that decision 13 years ago to leave Washington as an essential part of his rise as a top-tier Republican presidential candidate. The choice bore the Cruz hallmarks: ambition, a willingness to take major risks and confidence that he could pull it off. In an interview with The Washington Post, Cruz also said that the move also shows how he and Heidi work in tandem. They both held aspirations for their careers, and they were willing to live apart to chase their goals.
Ted Cruz is a fraud and the only reason is winning some at the moment is that the GOP RNC Elite establishment is trying to stop Donald Trump. The two power hungry fools, Heidi and Ted should realize that they're being played for fools and being used to cheat the American voter. I guess a Cuban could care less.
A COURTSHIP BY PHONE
In a way, ambition brought Ted and Heidi together.
She joined the Bush campaign because she decided,
during a winter break from Harvard Business School, that it would be worthwhile
to spend 17-hour days working on policy projects.
Ted Cruz responded with an ambition of his own:
When Heidi showed up, many of the single men in the office noticed. Cruz
elbowed the others away and took her out to dinner two days after they met.
“Ted is an intense one-on-one guy,” said Marc
Lampkin, a lawyer at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck who worked with the Cruzes
on the 2000 campaign. “I remember him always very intensely listening,
intensely questioning, extracting every bit of her.”
Heidi Cruz has worked at the White House and
Goldman Sachs, but she’s hoping to add one more item to her resume: U.S. first
lady.
Ted and Heidi had been married for less than two
years when Cruz got wind of the job opening in Austin. At 31, he had graduated
from Harvard Law School and clerked for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. He
talked often about a career in politics.
But in Washington, he was dealing with a degree of
career frustration for the first time, friends said. The Bush campaign had left
him with one deep relationship and many frayed ones. Some colleagues found him
abrasive; during Bush’s run, Cruz was a mid-level policy adviser who wondered
aloud why he wasn’t prepping the then-Texas governor for his debates. In an
autobiography published last year, Cruz wrote that he was “too cocky” at the time.
And his penance, once Bush took office, was an unglamorous posting in the
Federal Trade Commission.
“The FTC was like buying a suit off the rack at
Joseph A. Bank,” said Jim Bayless, a Cruz friend who served in the Ronald
Reagan administration. “It didn’t fit his shoulders.”
For Cruz, the key decision was not whether to take
the job in Austin, he said; it was whether to apply. He wasn’t going to waste
time pursuing the position, he said, without being certain he was doing the
right thing. Determining that meant talking to one person: Heidi.
He had long told her that he would one day take a
job in Texas, his home state. “If you want to be in elected office, the last
thing you want to do is be in D.C.,” said Noel Francisco, a lawyer and close
friend. But Heidi had also figured their move would come toward the end of
Bush’s presidency, not at the beginning.
“They were on a 10-year plan, and then this
happened after two years,” said Suzanne Nelson, Heidi’s mother. “Heidi likes to
have everything planned.”
Heidi loved her job running the Treasury
Department’s Latin American desk. She had learned Spanish during late-night
cram sessions and wanted a career in international affairs. Cruz encouraged her
to stay in Washington instead of following him to Texas.
They had reason, he said, to think they could make
a long-distance marriage work. Long distance meant phone calls, and they had
fallen in love over long phone calls. Sure, they had met on the campaign, but
Heidi had returned to Boston only weeks later at the end of her break. Before
leaving, she had told Ted to call her every night.
“But I’m getting home at 2 and 3 in the morning,”
he recalled telling her back then.
“I don’t care,” Heidi said. “Call me at 2 or 3.”
So Cruz called every night and woke her up, and
they talked sometimes for as long as an hour, and occasionally Cruz would wake
up with the phone by his ear and the call still running. They kept that up for
months, and within a year they were married.
Talking, Cruz said, “was how the relationship was
built.”
When they discussed the solicitor general’s job,
Heidi said it fit his strengths. He should go for it. And so he did. He called
Bayless, who had a friend in the attorney general’s office, and asked him to
put in a good word. Cruz knew he was a long shot, given his dearth of
experience arguing cases. And in Texas, the position was particularly high-profile.
Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is now Texas’s governor, wanted the state to
be assertive about taking conservative issues to the Supreme Court.
Cruz interviewed for the job on a Saturday and came
prepared. He laid out a vision for the position that was even more aggressive
than what Abbott had envisioned, said Barry McBee, the deputy attorney general
at the time. Cruz suggested that Texas partner with other states and form
coalitions to go before the Supreme Court, a way of broadening the state’s
platform.
“I saw clearly incredible — not raw, but developing
— talent,” McBee said.
Abbott offered Cruz the job while he and Heidi were
in California, staying with her parents for Christmas in 2002. The call came
early, 6 a.m. on the West Coast, when both were still in bed. Cruz accepted on
the spot.
“I was blown away,” Cruz said, “and Heidi was, too.
We were both like, ‘Wow.’ ”
Only years later, Cruz said, did Heidi admit why
she had been so encouraging about applying for the job: She’d doubted Cruz
would be chosen.
A ‘DANGER TO HERSELF’
In Cruz’s last days in Washington, a friend threw a
goodbye party. There was a final poker game. Cruz sent an email on Feb. 5,
2003, to his co-workers — subject: “New Contact Info” — and told them the news.
“Tomorrow is my last day at the Commission,” he wrote. “I head to Austin Friday
morning.”
Ted and Heidi gave up the lease on their apartment in
Virginia, and Heidi helped Ted pick out a two-bedroom home in Austin. Meantime,
she moved in with some friends in Washington.
And both dealt with the
separation by keeping busy at work. Heidi took a job with the National Security
Council, working for Condoleezza Rice. Ted wrote briefs many nights at the
office until 1 a.m.
“Burnout was not in his DNA,” said Daniel Hodge,
who worked in the office with Ted Cruz in Texas.
Said Cruz: “If your spouse isn’t at home, there’s
no reason to rush home. What are you going to do? Turn on ‘Law & Order’?”
Heidi and Ted tried to get together — in either
D.C. or Austin — every weekend. There were no direct routes; Continental
flights connected in Houston, and American flights connected in Dallas. Some
weekends, they booked flights and missed connections. Other times, they skipped
travel because of last-minute work. Cruz racked up so many ticket-change fees
that he kept an Excel spreadsheet.
“We spent thousands of dollars on change fees,” he
said.
Nearly two years of living apart was “hard on a
young marriage,” Cruz wrote in his book, “A Time for Truth,” so the couple
decided that Heidi would move to Texas.
But she wanted a job in banking, having
previously worked at J.P. Morgan. That meant living in Houston, not Austin.
Nearly every weekend, one or the other made the three-hour drive.
The move to Houston, friends and family now say,
was brutal for Heidi. She valued her reputation and her group of friends, and
in Houston she was building both from zero.
While at her first banking job in
Texas, at Merrill Lynch, she fell into a depression.
Cruz said Heidi struggled
initially in a “male-driven” industry. Suzanne Nelson said her daughter was
grappling with the realization that her life — and the trajectory of her career
— wasn’t fully in her hands.
“I don’t think she realized it would be as hard for
her to move as it was,” Nelson said. “She realized it wasn’t all about her.”
Heidi did not seek professional treatment and was
able to function at work, Nelson said.
But on one particularly worrisome night,
while she was in Austin in August 2005, she wandered toward an expressway
on-ramp, where she was found by an officer with her “head in her hands” and no
car, according to a police account first reported.
There was no car
visible.
The officer determined that Heidi was a
“danger to herself.”
The Cruz campaign did not make Heidi available for
an interview, but Heidi told The Post in September that the move to Texas
“really was for Ted, and I wasn’t comfortable with that.”
According to friends, Ted struggled to figure out
the root of her depression. He wrote letters to her, tried to help her widen
her social circle and spent hours talking with her.
What he didn’t do was move
to Houston; nor did Heidi move to Austin.
“We worked through it as a couple,” Ted Cruz said
in The Post interview, without specifics, before quickly moving to discuss
other periods in their relationship.
Heidi improved when she settled into a different
banking job in Houston, at Goldman Sachs’s investment management division.
She
worked all the time and often slept only four hours per night;
Cruz said Heidi
was on her BlackBerry while in labor with the first of their daughters, in
2008.
Though she officially changed her primary residence to Austin that same
year, she was still heading to Houston weekly for work — a pattern that
continued until 2010, when the whole family moved to Houston.
It was the first
time in seven years that the Cruzes were living together full time.
They had
another daughter in 2011, and Heidi was promoted by Goldman to managing
director one year later.
For Ted Cruz, meanwhile, the solicitor general’s
job was a springboard into politics.
Only months after he accepted the
position, one friend said, Cruz was already speculating about what he would do
next.
He thought briefly about an attorney general run.
Instead, he vaulted
even higher, launching a long-shot Senate bid that he won.
He was sworn in,
family by his side, just days after turning 42 in 2013. The long-distance
routine started anew, Ted in Washington during the week and Heidi and the girls
in Houston.
In a campaign video, Heidi said that, once, when
Ted returned to Texas after a week in Washington, his older daughter ran to the
door. “There’s a guest in the house!” she shrieked.
Cruz announced a run for president before finishing
his first Senate term. He talked about it for months with Heidi, said one close
friend, and Heidi had few reservations. She liked that Cruz was aiming
impossibly high — and she could, too.
A JOINT CAMPAIGN
Now, on the campaign trail in late December, Cruz
was closing in on Donald Trump in some national polls and pitching voters on
his fervent conservatism.
Cruz talked often about his tenure as solicitor
general, offering it as hard proof of his conservative core.
The meatiest
section in the official bio on his website describes his nine Supreme Court
arguments on behalf of Texas and victories he won defending the right to bear
arms and the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument.
But in the suburbs of Birmingham, Ala., the pitch
for Cruz was also about his — and his family’s — values.
In the relationship
Heidi described onstage, the Cruzes were the slightly overscheduled couple just
trying to get by. Ted was the more playful parent, scheduling movie nights and
reading to the kids before bedtime.
Heidi took pains to portray herself as a mom and
spouse, and she didn’t mention that at Goldman she had managed the wealth for
individuals worth tens of millions. Or that she had become the campaign’s key
fundraiser, soliciting donations from a similarly wealthy group of power
brokers.
After a video played, Ted Cruz bounded up the
steps. The audience stood. He kissed Heidi on the left cheek. “Yeah!” he
roared.
Heidi left the stage and settled into her seat in
the front row, along with the Cruzes’ daughters and a family nanny.
“Let me say something,” Cruz said. “Isn’t Heidi
going to make an extraordinary first lady of the United States?”
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