Sally Yates Just Smacked Down Ted Cruz. Twitter’s Response Is EPIC
In today’s much anticipated Senate Intelligence Committee hearing looking into President Trump and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s secret communications with Russia, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) used his time for an ill-fated effort to discredit former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
The Senator tried to ambush Yates with an off-topic question about the legality of her’ decision not to enforce Trump’s Muslim ban, but Yates replied with a swift smackdown. She cited the actual law. Reading aloud from the Immigration and Nationality Act, she said “No person shall receive preference or be discriminated against in issuance of a visa because of race, nationality, or place of birth.”
Cruz’s humiliating moment exposed his partisan agenda, and the twitterverse loved it. Below are some of the best retorts. Enjoy:
That burn Ted Cruz got from Sally Yates will forever be a pre-existing condition.
— shauna (@goldengateblond) May 8, 2017
Usually when you humiliate Ted Cruz this throughly, he ends up endorsing you for president. https://t.co/3ZOk5thigA
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/861678006888263680
Ted Cruz left the chamber to have his jaw iced.
— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) May 8, 2017
Sally Yates responding to Ted Cruz pic.twitter.com/lWDOTJKj3x
— elizabeth (@Elizasoul80) May 8, 2017
#SallyYates to Ted Cruz pic.twitter.com/1muowVbtd3
— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) May 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/_nasaspork/status/861681315233628168
https://twitter.com/jenerallyspeaks/status/861678592652193792
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/861675562942726145
Ted Cruz's career right now #SallyYates pic.twitter.com/6odgmA9n8D
— Associated Press Grey (@apipergrey) May 8, 2017
