{"id":249,"date":"2017-09-12T21:27:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T01:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-03-01T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:34:02","slug":"ted-cruz-likes-explicit-porn-video-from-account-called-sexuallposts-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz &#8216;likes&#8217; explicit porn video from account called &#8216;SexuallPosts&#8217; on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"gigya-share-btns-1_gig_containerParent\">\n<p class=\" \">Mr Cruz has sought to make light of the incident, which he blames on a &#8216;staffing issue&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caption meta inline-pipes-list\">\n<li class=\"author\"><a title=\"Rachael Revesz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/rachael-revesz\">Rachael Revesz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RachaelRevesz\">@RachaelRevesz<\/a><\/li>\n<li title=\"12 September 2017 06:34 London\"><time title=\"Tuesday 12 September 2017 06:34 BST\" datetime=\"Tue, 09\/12\/2017 - 06:34\" data-microtimes=\"{&quot;published&quot;:&quot;1505194440000&quot;,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;changed&quot;:&quot;1505194440000&quot;}\">Tuesday 12 September 2017 06:34 BST<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"featured-media medium-width\"><picture title=\"ap-senator-ted-cruz-republican-party-.jpg\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2016\/11\/27\/20\/ap-senator-ted-cruz-republican-party-.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 620px) and (max-width: 929px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/article_large\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2016\/11\/27\/20\/ap-senator-ted-cruz-republican-party-.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 930px) and (max-width: 1239px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/story_large\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2016\/11\/27\/20\/ap-senator-ted-cruz-republican-party-.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 1240px)\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/article_small\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2016\/11\/27\/20\/ap-senator-ted-cruz-republican-party-.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\">Mishap comes a year after Cruz&#8217;s campaign pulled an advert as it featured a softcore porn actor\u00a0<span class=\"copyright\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"main-content-column\">\n<div id=\"gigya-share-btns-2_gig_containerParent\" class=\"text-wrapper\">\n<p>Liking something by mistake on social media is all too easy \u2013 something Senator Ted Cruz and his team may have discovered after accidentally sharing pornography on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cruz said an aide was responsible for the \u201clike\u201d given to a two-minute porn video on the social media platform from @SexuallPosts.<\/p>\n<p>The footage of two women and a man engaged in sexual activity showed under Mr Cruz\u2019s \u201clikes\u201d briefly early Tuesday morning, but was removed by 1.30am local time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-left\" data-nid=\"\/news\/world\/americas\/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-removes-advert-featuring-adult-film-actress-amy-lindsay-a6869801.html\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-removes-advert-featuring-adult-film-actress-amy-lindsay-a6869801.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/readmore_card\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2016\/02\/12\/12\/Amy-Lindsay.jpg?ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h5>Ted Cruz campaign removes advert featuring adult film actress<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Texas Republican and 2016 presidential candidate said that several aides have access to the account and that one inadvertently posted the pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cruz told reporters that \u201cit was a staffing issue and it was inadvertent. It was a mistake. It was not a deliberate action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiking\u201d \u2014 which only people with access to a Twitter account are able to do \u2014 causes it to appear on one&#8217;s feed. Twitter prohibits pornography on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Frazier, senior communications adviser to Mr Cruz, tweeted: \u201cThe offensive tweet posted on @tedcruz account earlier has been removed by staff and reported to Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image\">\n<div class=\"dnd-atom-rendered\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ted-cruz.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/story_medium\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2017\/09\/12\/07\/ted-cruz.jpg?resize=564%2C423&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ted-cruz.jpg\" width=\"564\" height=\"423\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dnd-caption-wrapper\">(Twitter \/ Chris\u00a0<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-lang=\"en_GB\" data-scayt-word=\"Geidner\">Geidner<\/span>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mr Cruz sought to make light of the episode, which gained widespread notice on the popular social media site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not how I envisioned waking up this morning,\u201d Mr Cruz said. \u201cAlthough I will say that if I had known that this would trend so quickly, perhaps we should have posted something like this back during the Indiana primary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the failed Presidential candidate, who Donald Trump nicknamed \u201cLyin\u2019 Ted\u201d, has been associated with pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, his campaign had to retract an advert attacking his former rival, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, after learning the team had hired softcore porn actor Amy Lindsay.<\/p>\n<p>The evangelical Christian politician has tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to ban sex toys in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He has also regularly voted against bodily autonomy for women.<\/p>\n<p>In a town hall event during his campaign for President in April 2016 he admitted to searching for hardcore pornography using the term \u201ccantaloupe\u201d alongside retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day when he was a young law clerk for then Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The justices were considering a case challenging online porn regulations and they wanted to see how easily porn could be found on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Cruz has sought to make light of the incident, which he blames on a &#8216;staffing issue&#8217; Rachael Revesz @RachaelRevesz Tuesday 12 September 2017 06:34&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopplaybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-03-01_10-33-06.jpg?fit=815%2C592&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8VBh7-41","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":692,"url":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=692","url_meta":{"origin":249,"position":0},"title":"5 Things to Know About Texas Sen. 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