U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who once argued that people have no legal right to masturbate, might have been masturbating last night because his Twitter account apparently liked a video of hardcore pornography. Forty minutes later, the video was un-liked, leaving people to wonder whether Cruz himself, a soon-to-be-fired intern, Satan or a hacker liked it.
Cruz blamed a staff member, stating, “a number of people on the team that have access to the account and it appears that someone inadvertently hit the like button.” Nevertheless, it’s hardly his first brush with pornography.
Cruz liked the porn video late at night…. and people noticed
The video was originally posted on the Sexuall Posts Twitter account and came from RealityKings.com. The video (NSFW) featured a large-breasted blonde coming home to discover a different-sex couple having rear entry sex on her couch. Unsure at first, she then decides to partially strip and start masturbating.
Despite the fact that Cruz’s account un-liked the video 40 minutes later, lots of Twitter users noticed:
Somewhere Ted Cruz's staff is trying to wake him up to unlike that video. But he's sound asleep after watching it.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 12, 2017
Breaking: @tedcruz displays human-like tendencies https://t.co/OWpEFZCKX2
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) September 12, 2017
ted cruz liking porn on twitter on 9/11 is wild there's literally no way we don't live in the matrix
— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) September 12, 2017
Please don't make me think about Ted Cruz's taste in porn.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 12, 2017
In response to Cruz liking the video, Cruz’s undergraduate college roommate, documentary filmmaker Craig Mazin, tweeted the following message: “Now imagine Ted Cruz is doing this four feet below you in the bottom bunk bed. Yes, my misery very much appreciates your company.”
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Some Twitter users also began making jokes using still images from the video that Cruz liked:
When you notice Ted Cruz liking twitter porn pic.twitter.com/DnzMw2ayJv
— Daniel M. Chick (@TheDukeWindsor) September 12, 2017
Ted Cruz's press sec right now: pic.twitter.com/QwPna0RYaa
— Forsberg (@forsberg) September 12, 2017
At 2:16 a.m. Tuesday morning, Cruz’s senior communications adviser, Catherine Frazier, tweeted “The offensive tweet posted on @tedcruz account earlier has been removed by staff and reported to Twitter.”
The offensive tweet posted on @tedcruz account earlier has been removed by staff and reported to Twitter
— Catherine Frazier (@catblackfrazier) September 12, 2017
Cruz’s previous brushes with politics and pornography
Cruz liking pornography is all the more wonderful considering that in July of 2016, he voted to add a plank to the Republican platform that called pornography a “public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions,” especially children.
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Weirdly, this isn’t the first time Cruz had liked a porn actress. Last year, his campaign created a campaign ad targeting his political rival Florida Senator Marco Rubio — it featured softcore porn actress Amy Lindsay. His campaign later pulled the ad.
