Ted Cruz launched a Twitter spat with Joe Scarborough Friday evening saying the MSNBC host ‘chased after Trump for two years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band.’
In the bitter exchange Scarborough hit out at the Republican senator in a series of Tweets accusing him of selling his ‘soul’ by supporting Donald Trump after the president ‘called your wife ugly and said your dad killed JFK.’
There was no love lost between the two as they threw insults back and forth on social media over each of their relationships with the president.
The war of words began when Scarborough posted a Tweet sharing a video that had been labeled as ‘manipulated media’ by the social media platform.
Ted Cruz (left) launched a Twitter spat with Joe Scarborough (right) Friday evening saying the MSNBC host ‘chased after Trump for two years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band’. There was no love lost between Cruz and Scarborough (above) as they threw insults back and forth on social media over each of their relationships with President Trump
It all started when Scarborough posted a Tweet sharing a video of Vice President Mike Pence delivering empty boxes of PPE into a hospital in an apparent publicity stunt (above). The video was later labeled as ‘manipulated media’ by Twitter
In the video – shared by TV host Jimmy Kimmel – Vice President Mike Pence is seen delivering empty boxes of PPE into a hospital in an apparent publicity stunt.
However it transpired that Pence had been carrying full boxes of PPE before the footage was shot and then joked that the remaining boxes be used ‘just for the camera’ and the video was debunked.
Scarborough then deleted the Tweet and issued an apology to the vice president for sharing the content.
‘I guess Twitter is a full time job. I apologize to Mike Pence for retweeting a tweet that had been disproved. I’m deleting now,’ the Tweet read.
But before Scarborough had time to admit his mistakes, Cruz blasted the TV host as ‘dishonest and corrupt’ in a Tweet of his own.
‘Hmm. When you’re on the defensive for being dishonest & corrupt, perhaps best not to forward fraudulent stories from Jimmy Kimmel (that he’s admitted were false)? You are claiming to be a journalist, after all….’ Cruz Tweeted.
This sparked a series of Tweets between the pair into the evening.
Scarborough slammed the senator for supporting Trump despite the president personally attacking him and his family when the two Republican politicians were fighting it out for the White House in 2016.
‘Ted, when I make a mistake I admit it. You remain mired in shame because you kowtow to a man who called your wife ugly and said your daddy assassinated JFK,’ replied Scarborough.
‘Me messing up a tweet or two will never erase the shame you carry every day of your life.’
There was no love lost between the two as they threw insults back and forth on social media over each of their relationships with the president
Scarborough was referring to Trump’s comments back in May 2016 – a day before Cruz pulled out of the presidential race – where he alleged that Cruz’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald soon before he murdered the president.
‘His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous,’ Trump said.
‘I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting? It’s horrible.’
The president also called Cruz’s wife Heidi Cruz ‘ugly’.
But Cruz did not take kindly to Scarborough dredging up the incidents and hit back at the TV host’s own show of support for Trump, after the president made regular appearances on his show during the GOP primary.
‘Joe, you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band; now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says & does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties & thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC,’ Cruz tweeted.
The video of Pence that triggered the spat was posted by democrat pollster Matt McDermott and then shared by TV host Jimmy Kimmel who has left the footage on his feed
In the video Pence is seen delivering empty boxes of PPE into a hospital
However it transpired that Pence had been carrying full boxes of PPE before the footage was shot and then joked that the remaining boxes be used ‘just for the camera’ and the video was debunked
Things got uglier when Scarborough retaliated again, reinforcing his previous comments about Trump’s attack on Cruz’s family and saying he ‘sold your soul to him’.
‘Ted, Trump called your wife ugly and said your dad killed JFK. The difference between you and me is the closer Trump got to power, the more I criticized him. The closer Trump got to power, the more you sold your soul to him. You even sold out your own father’s name for Trump,’ Scarborough tweeted.
He continued in a follow-up Tweet: ‘You lose this fight every time. You sold your soul to Trump. You. Lose.’
Scarborough then dismissed Cruz’s accusations that he enjoyed the high life in Washington DC circles.
‘PS. I don’t do cocktail parties. I went to University of Alabama and University of Florida. You’re a Harvard and Princeton boy who spends your life around lobbyists and billionaires. You can cut out the man-of-the-people BS. Nobody believes anything you say,’ he Tweeted.
The video of Pence that triggered the spat was shared by democrat pollster Matt McDermott who has left the footage on his feed.
It had gained more than 8.6 million views as of Saturday morning.
Kimmel also issued a sarcastic apology of his own to the vice president but did not take the footage down.
Cruz’s feud with Scarborough came just hours after he showed his support for Texas salon owner Shelley Luther who was jailed for two days for repeatedly defying stay-at-home orders
The Republican senator hopped on a plane and traveled to Salon A la Mode in Dallas to get a hair cut Friday after the stylist was released from jail Thursday
‘It would appear that @vp was joking about carrying empty boxes for a staged publicity stunt. The full video reveals that he was carrying full boxes for a staged publicity stunt. My apologies. I know how dearly this administration values truth,’ Kimmel wrote on Twitter.
Cruz’s feud with Scarborough came just hours after he showed his support for Texas salon owner Shelley Luther who was jailed for two days for repeatedly defying stay-at-home orders.
The Republican senator hopped on a plane and traveled to Salon A la Mode in Dallas to get a hair cut Friday after the stylist was released from jail Thursday.
‘Shelley Luther was wrongly imprisoned when she refused to apologize for trying to make a living,’ Cruz said in Friday tweet.
‘Today, I went to get my hair cut at Shelley’s salon to show my support for her, her small business, and all business owners trying to safely help Texans get back to work.’
The salon owner was sentenced to seven days in jail on Tuesday for refusing to shut down her business in accordance with the state’s stay-at-home orders – despite repeated court orders.
She was freed Thursday after Texas Governor Greg Abbott amended his executive order removing confinement as a punishment for non-compliance and the Texas Supreme Court ordered her release.