via Reuters Senator Ted Cruz speaks to the media at Cancun International Airport before boarding his plane back to the United States in Cancun, Mexico on February 18, 2021.
After Ted Cruz told Texans during a radio interview from Washington on Monday to “just stay home,” he stormed into the mild climes of Cancun, Mexico on Wednesday evening.
After photos of Cruz boarding his flight from George HW Bush International Airport went viral, Cruz changed his flight schedules and returned to Texas on Thursday, February 18. Cruz staff initially issued a statement on his behalf, claiming it was a “long-planned trip.” However, flight records and text messages show that the trip came together at the last minute and how Cruz was originally supposed to return on Saturday. 20th
Earlier Thursday, aviation / airline reporter Edward Russell tweeted, as his sources at United Airlines confirmed, that Cruz changed his flight schedules early Thursday morning for an afternoon departure.
Senator Ted Cruz spoke to a source at United Airlines and rebooked his return flight from Cancun to Houston around 6 a.m. today (Thursday). He was originally supposed to return on Saturday
– Edward Russell (@ByERussell) February 18, 2021
Additionally, Reform Austin has received text messages from a group chat in River Oaks, the exclusive neighborhood Cruz lives in when he’s in Houston. In the messages that are shared on condition of anonymity to protect the identity of other chat members, Heidi Cruz, Ted Cruz’s wife, apparently complains to the neighbors about the freezing temperatures in her house on Monday evening and asks them whether she wanted to do this with her on her trip to sunny Cancun.
Heidi Cruz then shared the planned flight route (with a return flight on Sunday), spoke about the need for COVD-19 tests to return to the US, and the idea of staying at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Cancun, which she claimed at the time of her Texted that the rooms would cost $ 309 a night plus tax.
Senator Cruz then issued a statement claiming he wanted to bring his daughters to Mexico with their friends, and he always planned to return after a day. This claim has met with skepticism throughout the media ecosystem and contradicts the reported facts.
As reported by the Associated Press, even Texas Republican chairman Allen West was less than supportive of Cruz’s decision-making. “He has to answer his voters about this. I’m here to take care of my family and my friends and others who are still without electricity, ”West said. “That’s my focus.”
While some Texans grapple with a fourth day of no power and the state continues to be plagued by freezing temperatures, Senator Ted Cruz has made nationwide headlines again for lying to Texans. As the story moves on, we need to find out if Ted Cruz will ever tell the truth.
