Twitter gleeful after US senator Ted Cruz’s account ‘likes’ porn post

Texas Senator Ted Cruz found himself in the spotlight Tuesday after it was discovered that his official Twitter account had "liked" a hardcore porn clip posted on the social media site.

The Washington Post described the two-minute video as featuring "a sectional sofa, the pornographic actress Cory Chase, her fictitious nude stepdaughter, and a very energetic young man."

The tweet was "liked" by Cruz's account in the early hours of Tuesday.

Twitter erupted in glee that Cruz, a conservative "family values" Republican who once argued in court that people don't have a "due-process right" to masturbate, seems to have been caught, well, red-handed.

One Twitter user shared an old Cruz tweet defining "marriage as between a man & woman."

"...and another woman and the cable guy and maybe the pizza deliveryman," the user added.

...and another woman and the cable guy and maybe the pizza deliveryman. #TedCruz https://t.co/twten3avbd

— Charles Clymer?????‍???? (@cmclymer) September 12, 2017

Cruz: "I believe porn should be between one man, one woman, and another woman watching and masturbating."#TedCruz

— Craig Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) September 12, 2017

When will Hillary apologize for #TedCruz liking porn??

— Megan Sass (@Megan_Sass) September 12, 2017

I believe that we all have our own ways of remembering 9/11, but I was taken aback by Ted Cruz's approach.
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— Chris Maughan (@Twit_ChrisM) September 12, 2017

When you make a career of shaming others for their sex lives and autonomy, I call something like this poetic justice. #TedCruz

— Charles Clymer?????‍???? (@cmclymer) September 12, 2017

Checks to see why Ted Cruz is trending, then sees why. #TedCruz pic.twitter.com/U1mNWyU639

— Weyman (@nweyman0826) September 12, 2017

Netizens also dug up a year-old tweet by Cruz's old college roommate.

"Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to 'stimulate their genitals.' I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his," writer and producer Craig Mazin tweeted in 2016.

Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.

— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) April 13, 2016

After news of the porn "like" broke, Mazin posted another pointed tweet, one that brings haunting images to mind:

"Now imagine Ted Cruz is doing this four feet below you in the bottom bunk bed. Yes, my misery very much appreciates your company," he said.

Now imagine Ted Cruz is doing this four feet below you in the bottom bunk bed.

Yes, my misery very much appreciates your company.

— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) September 12, 2017

Cruz has blamed the "like" to a "staffing issue" and said that several people had access to the account. — BM, GMA News