Probable Zodiac Killer and noted spanking enthusiast Ted Cruz has thus far managed to dodge some of the shadier aspects of his personal history, but this one may finally bring him down: In all likelihood, his father helped Lee Harvey Oswald kill JFK in Dallas.
This shocking news comes from none other than Donald Trump, who raised the issue in a phone interview with Fox News.
“You know, his father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being, you know, shot,” Trump said on Tuesday. “I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. What is this?…Right prior to his being shot and nobody even brings it up. I mean, they don’t even talk about that. That was reported and nobody talks about it…I mean what was he doing with – what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, I mean, before the shooting? It’s horrible.”
Trump’s evidence comes from The National Enquirer, a beacon of journalistic integrity that last week ran a story claiming that Rafael Cruz, Ted’s father, was the man next to Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in this 1963 photograph, taken months before the assassination:
Now, look, maybe you’re a little cynical. A photograph taken months before the assassination is different from “right prior to his being shot,” as Trump claimed. And yeah, maybe there’s no real evidence beyond The Enquirer that the man in question is Rafael Cruz, and maybe their whole “proof” is some dude named Mitch Gladstone who works for a “digitizing photo service” who said that the man has “more similarity than dissimilarity” to Rafael Cruz. And fine, maybe the Miami Herald has pointed out several flaws in the theory. And, look, you’re probably going to bring up that the Enquirer has been running non-stop Trump propaganda, and that there’s no reason to trust this latest smear.