Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Democrats this week for trying to push Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) out of office, saying that he has never seen a party cannibalize their own this way.

Cruz made the remarks on his podcast “Verdict,” with co-host Ben Ferguson, while discussing Feinstein’s recent absence from the U.S. Senate as she battles shingles.

“Shingles, by all accounts is a horribly painful disease,” Cruz said. “I’m grateful I haven’t had it. But everything I’ve heard about it, it sounds terrible. Shingles is also curable, it’s not a permanent affliction, but it is very painful while you have it. So Dianne has been out for a couple of months with shingles. She has been at home recuperating.”

Cruz then explained why Democrats are anxiously trying to push Feinstein out of office while she recovers.

“The Radical Left is pissed because while Dianne is gone, the Democrats no longer have a majority on the Judiciary Committee,” Cruz said. “Because they don’t have a majority, it means they can’t ram through their most radical and extreme judicial nominees. Now, most of their judicial nominees they can pass.”

Cruz noted said that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) votes to advance “almost every” nominee that President Joe Biden has put forward.

“He votes to confirm most Biden judicial nominees,” he said. “I vote against almost all Biden judicial nominees. But given that Lindsey votes for practically all of them, the Democrats can move almost the entirety of Biden’s judicial slate. The ones they can’t move are the most radical or the nominees that are so extreme.”

Cruz said that he and other Republican senators are working to stop attempts by Democrats to temporarily replace her on the Senate Judiciary Committee until she can come back.

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“I don’t see any reason why we should be complicit in helping the Democrats confirm their most radical and extreme nominees,” Cruz said.

“Look, the Senate is a body with a crap ton of really old people, like, they’re a bunch of people in their 70s and 80s. I’ve served with a bunch of colleagues who are way past their expiration date,” Cruz said. “It’s striking to me that the only senator I’ve ever seen that a party has tried to drive out because of health is Dianne Feinstein. Listen, John McCain, who I served with for a long time, John McCain was hospitalized and was incapacitated for months. He was the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee. There was no effort throw John McCain out of the Senate, nor should there have been. I would not have supported that. I didn’t support that. It’s really striking.”

“By the way, right now, Joe Biden is profoundly mentally diminished,” Cruz continued. “None of these left-wing radicals calling for throwing Dianne Feinstein out are calling for throwing Joe Biden out. And by the way, to be clear, John Fetterman, the senator from Pennsylvania, has been medically unavailable and absent for most of this Congress. He’s been in the Senate only a few days since he was elected. And none of these radicals who are calling to throw Dianne Feinstein out are calling to throw Fetterman out. And so it raises an obvious question, why the double standard? Why is she the target of their ire?”

Democrats are doing everything they can to drive Dianne Feinstein out of the United States Senate.

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— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 19, 2023

Twitter suspended a WIRED senior reporter on Wednesday after he allegedly used the social media platform to solicit stolen information belonging to Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, whose account was hacked the day before.

Walsh’s account appeared compromised Tuesday night after an anonymous hacker posted a series of out-of-character tweets on the conservative commentator and documentary filmmaker’s feed.

Less than 24 hours later, Dell Cameron, a senior reporter with WIRED, published a story interviewing the alleged hacker, who claims to have compromised Walsh’s account “to stir up controversy and sow chaos on Twitter” without causing any harm.

“Spoke with the hacker who says he compromised Matt Walsh’s account, and who was able to supply some convincing proof they’d gained access to his personal email account,” Cameron wrote on Twitter before the platform suspended his account.

Dell Cameron, a leftist senior reporter for WIRED, used Twitter to solicit stolen information belonging to @MattWalshBlog, who was hacked last night. pic.twitter.com/wsaOWRmPnc

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 19, 2023

According to Cameron, a hacker under the alias “Doomed” told the reporter that they hacked Walsh’s account to “make funny tweets,” as the Daily Wire host likes to “‘trigger’ people.”

Those “silly words” made up several tweets that used defamatory language against fellow conservative media figures, including colleague and Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro, podcast host Joe Rogan, and former British kickboxer and alleged human trafficker Andrew Tate. Doomed also pinned a tweet on Walsh’s profile with a racial slur.

“We caused no financial harm, threatened anyone, [nor] ruined anything,” Doomed said, adding it was “a few silly words on social media.”

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In the article, WIRED also alleged the hacker provided screenshots of Walsh’s private information and email accounts, including his W2 tax form, direct messages on Twitter with Shapiro from 2017, and emails with conservative commentator Steven Crowder from 2014.

“I noticed he panicked and removed his iCloud and stuff,” Doomed said. “I literally only wanted his Twitter account to make stupid tweets. And it worked, both sides are arguing over it.”

After going live with the story, Cameron posed on Twitter-alternative Mastodon, saying that he “just got permanently suspended for publishing this story” with a link to the article. A separate post from the WIRED report showed that Twitter suspended him for violating the platform’s policy, which prohibits “the distribution of hacked materials.”

Walsh returned to his Twitter account on Wednesday after regaining access to his feed.

The Daily Wire host first sarcastically asked if he missed “anything important” after being away for the last couple of days, followed by a short thread adding getting hacked to the list of backlash he and his family have received in the previous year.

“Over the last year my family has been harassed, threatened, doxxed, and now we can add hacked to the list,” Walsh said. “Apparently the hacker had an ‘insider’ who gave him access to my phone. A lot we still don’t know. But we’re finding out. And there will be consequences.”

“I have also made note of the members of the media who openly solicited stolen information from my phone,” Walsh added. “There will be consequences there too. Fortunately we can afford very good lawyers.”

I have also made note of the members of the media who openly solicited stolen information from my phone. There will be consequences there too. Fortunately we can afford very good lawyers.

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 19, 2023