Ted Cruz, NY Post Falsely Pass Off Black Hawk Helicopter Video as a Taliban Hanging
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Dan Crenshaw were among those who falsely declared Tuesday that a video showed Taliban fighters flying an American helicopter and hanging someone from it. The New York Post was duped, too, but wasn’t quite as credulous. The Post wrote a story on the man suspended from the helicopter, but noted it was “not immediately clear exactly how he is attached or if he is alive.”
In fact, he was alive. The video was posted from a now-suspended account, but another video of the same flight shows the man waving. Both videos make it clear he is not suspended by his neck.
In a now-deleted tweet, Cruz wrote, “This horrifying image encapsulates Joe Biden’s Afghanistan catastrophe. The Taliban hanging a man from an American Blackhawk helicopter. Tragic. Unimaginable.” He later issued a follow-up that said, “It turns out the post I shared w/ a video of Taliban ‘hanging a man’ from a helicopter may be inaccurate. So I deleted the tweet.”
He added that it “remains accurate” that “the Taliban are brutal terrorists” and “we left them millions in US military equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters.” He then lashed out at CNN for covering his original duping.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ted-cruz-ny-post-pass-182730026.html