Thread by @tedcruz

1/x THREAD

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://twitter.com/morgfair/status/1368446067725889538

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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!!”

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...

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.

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.

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.

12/x And on the question of who was telling the truth about the actual facts, it wasn’t Durbin:

dailywire.com/news/democrats…