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This week:
Ted Cruz endorses a guy who had allegedly had Adult Friend Finder account.
A very small update on the Crowder situation.
We check in on an Antifa-aligned school bus driver we reported on 2 years ago!
A convicted prostitute sues political activists!
Denton County Commissioner Slanders Kyle Rittenhouse?
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Cruz Backed Senate Candidate Had an Adult Friend Finder Account?
Hot off Pornhub being banned in Texas, we have another adult-website-related story.
Ted Cruz announced yesterday via X that he was endorsing Bernie Moreno of Ohio for US Senate.
Soon after, the AP released a story claiming that Moreno was linked to an adult website profile.
Moreno — who has shifted from a public supporter of LGBTQ rights to a hardline opponent — is confronting questions about the existence of a 2008 profile seeking “Men for 1-on-1 sex” on a casual sexual encounters website called Adult Friend Finder.
“Hi, looking for young guys to have fun with while traveling,” reads a caption on a photo-less profile under the username “nardo19672,” according to an Associated Press review of records made public through a massive and well-publicized data breach of the website. Records also show the profile was last accessed about six hours after it was created.
However, buried later in the story, it mentions that Moreno’s intern stated that he had created the account as part of a prank.
On Thursday evening, two days after the AP first asked Moreno’s campaign about the account, the candidate’s lawyer said a former intern created the account as a prank. The lawyer provided a statement from the intern, Dan Ricci, who said he created the account as “part of a juvenile prank.”
“I am thoroughly embarrassed by an aborted prank I pulled on my friend, and former boss, Bernie Moreno, nearly two decades ago,” Ricci said.
We have to admit, we kind of buy it. The username created for this account was "nardo19672,” which is part of Moreno’s first name and his year of birth. This seems a bit too obvious and revealing to be someone who is trying to sneak around and cheat on their spouse.
So yeah, we think the prank explanation is pretty believable here.
What do you think?
A Very Small Update on the Crowder Situation
We’ve been following the Steven Crowder divorce saga for quite a while. Something we would usually not cover except that Crowder himself insisted on speaking publicly about it.