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People Think There’s Something Familiar About Ted Cruz’s Airplanes Story

“Did they call him ‘sir,’ with tears in their eyes, too?” one Twitter user mocked the Texas Republican.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) met with the small group of truckers protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates around Washington on Tuesday and told a story that many people thought sounded suspiciously similar to tall tales often recalled by former President Donald Trump.

Cruz claimed: “Almost without exception, every time I’m on an airplane, either the captain or a flight attendant will come up to me, will hug me and say, ‘Thank you for fighting for us.’”

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Critics were highly skeptical.

And to many, the braggadocio sounded like Trump’s highly embellished recollections about people becoming emotional in his presence.

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