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  • 2016-07-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Ted Cruz Plots on Air Force One (en)
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  • On 21 July 2016, the DC Whisperer published a photograph purportedly showing Texas senator (and former Republican presidential candidate) Ted Cruz exiting Air Force One along with President Obama, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shortly before the start of the Republican National Convention (RNC). DC Whisperer's copy carried the insinuation that these Democratic politicians influenced the Cruz's decision not to endorse GOP candidate Donald Trump at the convention: DC Whisperer presented the photograph as if it captured a secret meeting between Ted Cruz and high-level Democratic officials, but Cruz's passage aboard Air Force One was for a more mundane reason documented by numerous credible news outlets. The picture was taken by Jeff Mason, Reuters White House Correspondent, and shows Senator Cruz and President Obama exiting Air Force One on their way to a memorial service for the five Dallas police officers killed in an ambush shooting on 7 July 2016. However, DC Whisperer misidentified key people captured in that photograph. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are shown at the bottom of the stairs, followed by Texas Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (not Valerie Jarrett), Ted Cruz, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (not Hillary Clinton), and Texas Representative Marc Veasey: DC Whisperer suggested the photograph had troubling implications, but a Dallas News article from 12 July 2016 provided a different explanation: the photograph of Senator Cruz and Barack Obama together, two politicians who disagree strongly on the issue of gun control, showed that grief knew no partisan bounds in the wake of the Dallas shooting: In fact, Ted Cruz has already suggested a month prior to the Dallas shootings that he was not prepared to endorse Donald Trump as the Republican nominee — it took no last-minute arm-twisting on the part of key Democrats to get him into taking that position. (en)
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