People Are Tweeting about ‘The Thing’ with Ted Cruz

Gabrielle Bluestone of Gawker writes:

This week, the National Enquirer published a story claiming Ted Cruz may have been involved in as many as five extramarital affairs. But the general allegations are nothing new. People have been talking publicly about, well, something involving Cruz for weeks.

The conjecture so far has been just that—speculation in the absence of receipts. Still, people have repeatedly pointed to Katrina Pierson, a former Cruz aide and one of the women whose blurred-out photo appeared in the National Enquirer story.

On Twitter, conservatives have been discussing the scandal, in vague (and sometimes less-vague) terms since March, using the hashtag #thething, which seems to have originated, or at least gained popularity, around March 11, with the Stop Trump Super PAC twitter account and GOP strategist Rick Wilson.

Ted Cruz is vigorously denying the accusations, but as Sam Biddle of Gawker points out, the tabloid National Enquirer has been right on scandalous and at-first unbelievable things like this before. Time will tell.