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Sen. Ted Cruz responds to Jon Stewart's fact-check of his vote on veterans' health care; Updated

When President Joe Biden got around to giving his State of the Union address this March, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seated behind him, stood up and started doing the cha-cha when he spoke about veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits overseas. Of course, Biden suggested that his son Beau was one of the victims of burn pits.

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Our troops in Iraq in Afghanistan faced many dangers.

One was stationed at bases and breathing in toxic smoke from “burn pits” that incinerated wastes of war — medical and hazard material, jet fuel, and more.

When they came home, many of the world’s fittest and best-trained warriors were never the same.

Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness,

A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin.

I know.

One of those soldiers was my son Major Beau Biden.

There’s some “damning” video going around from Sawyer Hackett — the same guy who started the Border Patrol whipping story — of Sen. Ted Cruz giving fist bumps after the PACT Act was voted down.

Jon Stewart (clown nose off) has made these veterans a personal cause of his and used his show to call out Cruz for lying:

Cruz was good enough to respond to Stewart’s charges later that night:

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Yep, he got all of the headlines about Republicans voting against veterans’ health care.

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Update:

Here’s “The Burn Pits” author Joseph Hickman:

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Update:

Here’s Sen. Pat Toomey:

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