A story linking Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) father and President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was fabricated, former National Enquirer Publisher David Pecker revealed on Tuesday.
Publisher David Pecker revealed on Tuesday.hush money trial in New York, Pecker was pressed on negative stories the outlet wrote on the former president’s rivals during the 2016 Republican primary. Pecker admitted that one of the most infamous, alleging a connection between Cruz’s father and Lee Harvey Oswald, was completely fabricated.
“We mashed the photos and the different picture with Lee Harvey Oswald and mashed the two together. And that’s how that story was prepared — created, I would say,” Pecker said, describing the process by which a picture appearing to show the two together was created. “After the Republican debates, and based on the success that some of the other candidates had, I would receive a call from Michael Cohen and he would direct me and direct Dylan Howard which candidate and which direction we should go,” Pecker said.
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