In a response to actor Morgan Fairchild, Sen. Ted Cruz unleashed a fact-filled 10-tweet tweetstorm where he called out Dems and the media for lying about his amendment to “prohibit sending those $$ to criminals (murderers, rapists, child molesters) currently IN PRISON”:
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Want to understand why we’re so divided? Why each side seems to live in alternate universes? Take a moment & examine the misinformation here (both deliberate & inadvertent).
FACT 1: Dem spending bill sends $1400 to each adult in US.
FACT 2: Dems voted against… https://t.co/gqk1QnG3GY
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
2/x …my amendment to prohibit sending those $$ to criminals (murderers, rapists, child molesters) currently IN PRISON.
EVERY Dem voted to send criminals the $$.
FACT 3: I then called up my amendment to prohibit illegal aliens from getting the $1400 checks.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
3/x FACT 4: Durbin then screamed “liar!” and insisted no illegal immigrants would get $$ because the bill requires social security numbers.
FACT 5: Lefty “press” outlets, like Daily Beast, dutifully repeated Durbin’s charge. They did ZERO fact checking fo their own, just said…
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
4/x …that my claim that illegal immigrants would get the $$ was “false.”
FACT 6: Lefty pundits & celebrities like Morgan Fairchild happily repeat the charge that I “lied.” They know none of the facts, but in this politically charged world, the other side must always be wrong.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
5/x FACT 7: As it so happens, it was Durbin who was lying, and he knew it.
Why?
FACT 8: There are 12mm or more illegal immigrants. 60% of them are from visa overstays. Many (if not most) of them have social security numbers.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
6/x FACT 9: When Durbin said “illegal immigrants don’t have social security numbers,” he was deliberately saying something false, knowing it would be repeated.
FACT 10: Under the bill’s language, MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will get the $1400 checks.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
7/x FACT 11: My amendment required that recipients would be “lawfully present,” i.e., legal.
FACT 12: When Durbin falsely said ZERO illegal immigrants would get $$, I asked if he would yield for a question. Schumer, sitting next to him, bellowed “no!!”
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
8/x FACT 13: If Durbin had taken my Q, I would have asked, “if you’re right that no illegal aliens will get $$ under this bill…WHY ARE YOU AND EVERY DEM OPPOSING MY AMENDMENT TO DO JUST THAT?”
The answer is that Durbin was lying, and he knew that Lefty partisans would…
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
9/x …reflexively believe his gals charge that I was the one lying.
FACT 14: When the checks go out, millions of illegal immigrants WILL GET $1400 checks.
PREDICTION: the Lefty press & pundits won’t cover it, and won’t care.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
10/x Sadly, that’s why we’re so divided. Facts don’t matter.
Journalists don’t care about truth.
Everyone is a partisan warrior.
And we only believe news from our own side.
For America to come together, this must change.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
And now we wait for the inevitable stories of people getting relief payments they’re not entitled to.
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