While good people in America were sleeping, somebody got onto Ted Cruz's Twitter account and "liked" a pornographic video. I'm glad Cruz reported it to Twitter.
Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday that a staff member of his was responsible for "liking" a pornographic Twitter post with the Texas lawmaker's account, chalking up the social media snafu to a "mistake."
"There are a number of people on the team who have access on the account. It appears that someone inadvertently hit the like button. When we discovered the post, which was I guess an hour or two later, we pulled it down," Cruz (R-Texas) said of the incident. "It was a staffing issue. And it was inadvertent, it was a mistake. It was not a deliberate act. We're dealing with it internally, but it was a mistake. It was not malicious."
Cruz told reporters Tuesday that it was "still being discussed" whether the staff member in question would retain access to the senator's social media account.
Earlier Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Cruz announced via her own Twitter account that the "like" had been undone and that the post had been reported to Twitter.
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The clip itself is just over two minutes, details of its contents mostly unprintable. It features a sectional sofa, the pornographic actress Cory Chase, her fictitious nude stepdaughter, and a very energetic young man.
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