On Tuesday night, Houston-based media outlets reported that police had been called to the Texas home of Sen. Ted Cruz over an alleged incident of attempted self-harm involving a 14-year-old. The teenager was reportedly taken to the hospital:
Houston police and fire department personnel responded to the Houston home of Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday night.HPD told Eyewitness News that officers responded to reports of a 14-year-old with self-inflicted stab wounds on the arms in the upscale neighborhood of River Oaks. Police were in the front yard of Cruz’s home when ABC13 arrived.
While law enforcement didn’t provide any details beyond that, including whether any member of the Cruz family was involved, a statement released later by a spokesman for Cruz indicated that it was indeed a “family matter” involving one of Cruz’s daughters and that thankfully she was “okay”:
“This is a family matter and thankfully their daughter is okay,” a representative said in a statement. “There were no serious injuries. The family requests the media respect their daughter’s privacy at this time.”
While most of the Twitter reactions I saw from prominent leftists to the news expressed support for Cruz’s daughter, the sentiment was not the same when it came to the suggestion that people ease up on Cruz on the non-stop attacks he faces every day.
Prolific Twitterer/CNN commentator Ron Filipkowski, a self-described “national social media influencer” and avowed hater of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, found out the hard way what a cesspool of stupid Twitter can be when he asked his followers to give Cruz “a break” after he’d read the reports of what allegedly happened:
Though reactions were mixed, it got ugly quickly:
In response, Filipkowski expressed disappointment that there wasn’t universal agreement with his original sentiment:
Separately, woke radio host/gamer Liana Kerzner thought quite differently, making an unfounded claim about Cruz’s daughter and a grotesque comparison to Hunter Biden in the process:
Hmmm. Methinks the two issues aren’t the same, but you do you, Ms. Kerzner. Because clicks and stuff.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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