The Protests -- And the Lies -- In The Life of Sen Ted Cruz
Texas Republican capped unpleasant 24 hours by getting on right-wing media -- and just lying
Sometimes it just sucks to be Ted Cruz.
His travails this week have been already well-documented.
The senator from Texas was in New York, where he faced humiliating hecklers at a Sunday New York Yankees baseball playoff game against the Houston Astros.
That was followed, the next day, by his appearance on the ABC TV chat program, The View, where Cruz was interrupted multiple times by protesters.
The thing is, of course, is that Cruz brings all of this on himself.
Such as later Monday, when he appeared on right-wing media and just straight-up lied in defense of Donald Trump and his ownership of sensitive national security materials at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., following his time in office.
Cruz attempted to, falsely, normalize Trump's actions by dishonestly claiming that his predecessors also removed similar documents from the White House at the end of their respective terms — in violation of federal law.
“This was a fishing expedition,” Cruz said of the FBI agents executing a legal search warrant on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in August. “Every former president has taken documents from his administration. [Barack] Obama did that. [Bill] Clinton did that. [George W] Bush did that.”
MeidasTouch, a pro-democracy and pro-Democratic online content political organization, fact-checked Cruz.
“This is a lie. No president did what Trump did. The Republican Party is a lawless party that doesn’t give a damn about our national security. This is so fundamentally un-American,” the organization tweeted.
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