Cruz on Loan: ‘If That’s the Best Hit the NYT Has Got, They Better Go Back to the Well’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BARTIROMA: "Goldman Sachs and Citibank during your Senate race. Your campaign says it was inadvertent. A million dollars is inadvertent?" 
CRUZ: "Well, MARIA, thank you for passing on that hit piece on the front page of "The New York Times." [Laughter]. You know the nice thing about the mainstream media, they don't hide their views. "The New York Times" a few weeks back had a columnist who wrote a column saying anybody but Cruz. Had that same columnist wrote a column comparing me to an evil, demonic spirit from the movie, "It follows," that jumps apparently from body to body possessing people. So, you know "The New York Times" and I don't exactly have the warmest of relationships. Now, in terms of their really stunning hit piece, what they mentioned is when I was running for Senate, unlike Hillary Clinton, I don't have masses of money in the bank, hundreds of millions of dollars. When I was running for Senate just about every lobbiest, just about all the establishment opposed me in the Senate race in Texas. And my opponent in that race was worth over $200 million. He put a $25 million check up from his own pocket to fund that campaign. And my wife Heidi and I, we ended up investing everything we owned. We took a loan against our assets to invest it in that campaign to defend ourselves against those attacks and entire "New York Times" attack is that I disclosed that loan on one filing with the United States Senate, that was a public filing but it was not on a second filing with the fec. Both of those filings were public. And yes, I made a paperwork error disclosing it on one piece of paper instead of the other. But if that is the best hit the New York Times has got, they better go back to the well."