Ted Cruz blasted a few “lefty press outlets” for just parroting Dick Durbin’s lies without checking the facts underlying his amendment on illegals getting COVID relief. Cruz says this is exactly why the country is so divided:
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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
11/x And on this issue, it isn’t a matter of opinion. It’s a question of fact. Millions of illegal immigrants either WILL or WILL NOT receive $1400 checks.
That’s a question of fact. Lefty “journalists” don’t do facts anymore, so Daily Beast, Vox, etc don’t even pretend to care.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 7, 2021
Cruz is right. This is a perfect example of the partisan bias that’s ripping American apart. Each of these outlets, The Daily Beast and Vox, have journos on staff that easily find out the truth here. But they don’t care about the truth, just what side they are on.