Ted Cruz defended himself at Thursday’s Republican presidential debate from a new report that suggested he has been less than forthcoming about $1 million-worth of loans he took out to finance his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2012.
Cruz called the report, published this week by The New York Times, a “stunning hit piece” and chalked it up to a publication that simply doesn’t like him.
“The New York Times and I don’t have exactly the warmest relationship,” he said, after referring to critical columns written about him by the Times’ David Brooks and Frank Bruni, who compared Cruz to “the body-hopping spirit” in the 2014 horror movie “It Follows.”
The issue over Cruz’s loan centers on how he disclosed the loan on campaign documents, which he has admitted was an oversight. “Unlike [Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, I don’t have masses of money in the bank,” he said.
He dismissed the report as a “stunning hit piece” about a “paperwork error.”
