Cruz Smacks NYT Over ‘Hit Piece’ On Goldman Sachs Loan

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charleston, S.C. (A... Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) MORE LESS
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) railed against a New York Times report that he failed to disclose a large loan from Goldman Sachs while running for the U.S. Senate during Thursday’s GOP presidential debate, calling the article a “stunning hit piece.”

The article charged that Cruz did not disclose loans from Citibank and Goldman Sachs, his wife’s employer, on campaign finance reports during his 2012 campaign.

Despite dismissing the article as an “attack,” Cruz referred to his failure to properly disclose the loans as a “paperwork error.”

He framed the Times’ article as an intentional smear campaign from a “mainstream media” publication, pointing to a recent column that compared him to “an evil, demonic spirit” from the horror film “It Follows.”

“The New York Times and I don’t exactly have the warmest of relationships,” he said.

The Times reported that Cruz took out loans totaling up to $1 million, with the loan from Goldman Sachs amounting to up to $500,000.

Cruz disclosed both loans to the Senate after failing to include them on disclosure forms filed to the Federal Elections Commission, calling his lapse a “technical and inadvertent filing error.”

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  1. So, to extend Michael Kinsley’s definition of a gaffe, a smear is when somebody else intentionally tells the truth about you?

    God, I loathe this human simulacrum of a lizard POS.

  2. Avatar for sandyh sandyh says:

    How dare a NY newspaper point out that Cruz is chummy with New York bankers…those that caused the worldwide bank failures which made middle class Americans lose a fair share of their life savings and home equity.

  3. Anyone who takes a million in loans from Goldman and Citibank knows about New York values so you better listen to him

  4. Just a small receipt error — Like forgetting to return “Green Eggs and Ham” to the library —

  5. Avatar for ken_t ken_t says:

    Cruz referred to his failure to properly disclose the loans as a “paperwork error.”

    Right. And Willie Sutton didn’t really rob any banks, he just forgot to file the proper paperwork for the loans he took out.

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