Posted on 05/28/2022 5:43:39 PM PDT by nwrep
In the wake of the Tuesday mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, Twitter users went viral by making false claims about two of the state's most prominent politicians: Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, both Republicans.
The tweets purported to be written by someone whose nephew was shot in the massacre at Robb Elementary School. The tweets claimed that an Abbott representative knocked on their door, shortly after they returned home from identifying their nephew's body, and that this representative "informed us he's willing to pay us to stand with the Gov and say we don't need stronger gun laws."
Facts First: The viral story about Abbott is fake. The "My Cancer Journey" account deleted the three viral tweets on Friday, then the account was taken offline entirely.
False claim about Cruz's tweets
Another Twitter user accused Cruz of having tweeted the exact same three sentences after 12 different mass shootings, changing only the location each time.
Facts First: Eleven of the 12 supposed Cruz tweets in the viral collage are fake. Cruz did tweet those three sentences after the mass shooting in Uvalde, but not after any other incident.
The man behind the "chavito" account did not respond to a request for comment. Cruz's office confirmed that the senator tweeted this message in response to the Uvalde massacre but not in response to any others.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
This is a snippet of Cruz's barn-burner NRA speech. I know at times he's maddening but the man is an intellectual beast.
CNN is under new management and they start and ratings.
not pigs flying, new bosses eager to fire......
Beat me to it!
CNN is under new management and they want ratings.
Better.
I could swear that pig is flying, and doesn’t even have wings.
Sounds like an internet troll for the Democrats is afraid some grieving families may indeed decide to speak out, so putting out that lie is probably calculated as a kind of insurance policy in the event some parents do come out. Now, if any do speak up, the libs will claim “they should be disregarded, the families were just bribed.”
Perfect!!
They who posted the intentional fake tweets needs to be sued.
That’s what I was thinking too.
Isn’t that kind of honesty against CNN policy?
Usually CNN pushes lies against conservatives... one of most unethical networks in the past 20 years. So yeah - this is news.
Yeah man, they lit the after burner!
Excellent! 😂
“CNN is under new management ...”
Since when? and why wasn’t it “Five Bells” “Doomsday Headline” BREAKING NEWS around here for, like, an entire week?
CNN is bad yes, but NBC has always been the worst of the worst, they’re filthy lying propagandists.
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