New Billboard Slams Ted Cruz, Praises Local BBQ Shack Owner Helping Texans.Texas Party Store Sells Ted Cruz Piñatas After Cancun Fiasco.Trevor Noah Lambasts Ted Cruz for 'Lame Photo Ops' After Cancun Fallout.Now look, our neighbors, we've got a number of Republicans who are neighbors, but we also have a number of Democrats.' 'She actually was over at a neighbor's house walking through-so she texted several of our neighbors.

'I will say Heidi's pretty pissed at that,' Cruz said of the leaked text messages. The senator started out the interview by sarcastically saying he'd had a 'calm and uneventful' week with 'not much of anything going on.' He suggested that Democratic neighbors may have been the ones who leaked the text messages to the media.

Responding to the criticism, Cruz quickly booked a return flight to Texas for the next day, saying he had been trying to be a 'good dad.' But the backlash persisted, with Democrats and some Republicans strongly criticizing the senator's judgment and actions.ĭuring a Tuesday episode of the conservative Ruthless podcast, Cruz discussed the negative reaction to his trip and took aim at his neighbors. The Texas Republican received swift backlash after photos of him boarding a flight last Wednesday to the tourist hot spot with his family circulated online.

USA TODAY, Oct.Senator Ted Cruz called out his neighbors for leaking text messages inviting them to join a controversial family trip to Cancun, Mexico, while millions of Texans remained without electricity and water last week during severe winter weather.

USA TODAY, May 16, Buffalo suspected gunman was kicked out of Tops store the night before rampage: What we know about shooting.

ProPublica, accessed May 30, Deleted Tweets From Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Associated Press, May 27, Ted Cruz hasn’t posted identical tweets after 12 mass shootings.

USA TODAY, May 27, Stunning revelations about Texas school shooting fill intense Friday press conference.

USA TODAY, May 29, Slow police response may have delayed treatment for injured students in Texas elementary school massacre: Live updates.

Ted Cruz, accessed May 30, Twitter profile.

Reuters, May 27, Fact Check-Republican Senator Ted Cruz did not tweet identical messages following multiple mass shootings in the U.S.

The manipulated tweets are not found on any of Cruz's Twitter accounts. The tweets in the image are manipulated versions of a May 24 tweet Cruz shared in response to the Uvalde shooting. Our rating: Alteredīased on our research, we rate ALTERED a photo that purports to show Cruz using a Twitter template for mass shootings. 27, 2018, Cruz said in a tweet that he and his wife were 'praying for the victims and their families, the entire Jewish community in Pittsburg, and our brave members of law enforcement.'Ĭruz has not tweeted from his personal or official account responding to mass shootings in Indianapolis, Rochester, Virginia Beach and Parkland, according to the Associated Press. USA TODAY and other independent fact-checking organizations also found no evidence Cruz has used identical wording from his May 24 tweet in past responses to any mass shootings.įor example, in response to the deadly supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York that left 10 dead, Cruz wrote in a May 16 tweet that the killer 'must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law' and that he is 'thankful there are heroes like security guard Aaron Salter, Jr., retired police officer, who fought back, and lost his life defending those around him.'įact check: Comparison of school shootings in the US, other countries uses old dataĪnd after a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. The tweets shown in the social media posts do not exist on Cruz's personal or official accounts, in any archives or on a ProPublica database that tracks his deleted tweets. The tweets in the social media posts are digitally altered versions of a tweet Cruz shared on May 24 in response to the Uvalde shooting. The location of the shooting in the tweet and the date and time were changed on the others to make it appear as though Cruz has a programmed response to mass shootings. USA TODAY reached out to the social media users who shared the claim for comment. There is no evidence these tweets exist on any of Cruz’s Twitter accounts. Similar posts have spread widely on Facebook and Twitter.īut the purported tweets in the post are digitally manipulated to look like the Republican senator shared identical messages during each shooting. The post generated over 600 likes in less than three days. Follow us on Facebook! Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks

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