Ted Cruz blamed Donald Trump for the National Enquirer's affair allegations

Ted Cruz denied Friday the allegations published in the National Enquirer that he's had at least five extramarital affairs.

"I want to be crystal clear: These attacks are garbage," the Republican presidential hopeful wrote on Facebook. "For Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you that there is no low Donald won't go."

Trump said he had nothing to do with the tabloid story, The Washington Post reports.

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"I did not know about it, and have not, as yet, read it," the frontrunner said in a statement. "Likewise, I have nothing to do with the National Enquirer and, unlike Lyin' Ted Cruz, I do not surround myself with political hacks and henchman and then pretend total innocence."