‘It was not me’: Ted Cruz defends accidental porn like from Twitter account in bizarre CNN interview
Senator insists it was a staff member with who ‘accidentally hit the wrong button’
By Maxwell Tani
Sen. Ted Cruz sat down for a bizarre interview in which he explained at length the reason why his Twitter account accidentally liked a pornographic tweet earlier this week.
Speaking to CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday, the Texas senator repeatedly described the incident as a “screwup” on the part of a staffer who “accidentally hit the wrong button.”
“It’s generated a lot of amusement, it’s prompted a lot of jokes, I understand it,” Cruz said, emphasising that he was “not going to out the fella.”
He added: “We have looked into it, yes, we have identified it, we pulled it down. It was an honest mistake, it wasn’t malicious, it wasn’t deliberate, it was a screwup.”
Cruz emphasised that he was not responsible for the tweet.
“It was not me, and it’s not going to happen again,” he said.