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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