“I’m told this is a joke. In LA, you never know…,” Ted Cruz later wrote of the 12-year-old fake photo that’s been debunked by Snopes.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas doesn’t have the best track record responding to natural disasters.
In February 2021, the senator infamously fled for sunny Cancun as devastating winter storms crippled his home state. And Monday morning, he quote-tweeted an obviously fake photo of a shark swimming on a flooded highway that a Twitter user said was in Los Angeles, which is being hit by its first tropical storm in over 80 years.
