Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz hit back at Dan Rather on Thursday after the former CBS anchor said Cruz’s tweets should come with a “trigger warning.”
“When Cotton or Cruz trends on Twitter it should come with a trigger warning,” Rather tweeted on Wednesday. Cruz responded a day later, writing, “I’m sorry your sensitive soul is triggered. You’ve spent 60 years being a professional liar.”
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1382543936053510145
Leading up to the exchange with Rather, Cruz had tweeted about a Washington Post column on the public’s declining trust in media. “This must be parody. Author laments public mistrust of press & identifies four ‘core values’ of journalists: Transparency, factuality, spotlighting wrongdoing, giving a voice to the voiceless. Ignores that the press ONLY FOLLOWS THEM WHEN IT HELPS DEMOCRATS,” Cruz wrote Wednesday.
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