You present an interesting logical conundrum. From the sounds of things, there were plenty of GOPe types that were aware of #thething prior to #thething going public as it did. It seems to have originally be in possession of the Rubio team. Possibly. So it’s also, therefore, seems possible that Cruz’s character has just been assassinated by a segement of the establishment in order to bring about a decisive end to this primary war which isn’t helping anyone but Hillary.
Cruz has disgusted a lot of us by maneuvers such as putting Neil Bush on his campaign team. Inquiring minds want to know why he stopped pretending to be an outsider who was in agreement with Trump’s mission to change DC.