Sen. Ted Cruz slammed liberals as “vicious” after the New Yorker published a critical piece concerning Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s age and mental acuity.
“The hard Left is vicious. Usually a Jane Mayer hit-piece is reserved ONLY for conservatives,” Cruz tweeted Thursday. “But now — despite Diane’s decades of loyal Democratic service — because she dared to say one nice word about a Republican … they’ve released the wolves.”
The hard Left is vicious. Usually a Jane Mayer hit-piece™️ is reserved ONLY for conservatives.
But now—despite Diane’s decades of loyal Democratic service—because she dared to say one nice word about a Republican…they’ve released the wolves. pic.twitter.com/SwPekqYvoG
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 10, 2020
The tweet comes in response to a New Yorker piece, titled “Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats,” written by journalist Jane Mayer.
“Several sources inside the Senate say Dianne Feinstein, who is 87, struggles to remember briefings just after they take place—and that her cognitive decline has been evident for several years. @JaneMayerNYer reports,” a New Yorker tweet on the story, which was cited in Cruz’s tweet, reads.
Several sources inside the Senate say Dianne Feinstein, who is 87, struggles to remember briefings just after they take place—and that her cognitive decline has been evident for several years. @JaneMayerNYer reports. https://t.co/CfkA32S11v
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 10, 2020
In the piece, Mayer outlined how Feinstein has fumbled questions during Senate hearings, opening the piece with how she asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey the same question twice last month.
“In a hearing on November 17th, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who, at eighty-seven, is the oldest member of the Senate, grilled a witness. Reading from a sheaf of prepared papers, she asked Jack Dorsey, the C.E.O. of Twitter, whether his company was doing enough to stem the spread of disinformation. Elaborating, she read in full a tweet that President Trump had disseminated on November 7th, falsely claiming to have won the Presidential election. She then asked Dorsey if Twitter’s labelling of the tweet as disputed had adequately alerted readers that it was a bald lie,” Mayer wrote.
“It was a good question. Feinstein seemed sharp and focussed. For decades, she has been the epitome of a female trailblazer in Washington, always hyper-prepared. But this time, after Dorsey responded, Feinstein asked him the same question again, reading it word for word, along with the Trump tweet. Her inflection was eerily identical. Feinstein looked and sounded just as authoritative, seemingly registering no awareness that she was repeating herself verbatim. Dorsey graciously answered the question all over again.”
The article, published Thursday, comes after Feinstein lauded Sen. Lindsey Graham earlier this year following Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings.
“This has been one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in,” Feinstein said in October. “It leaves one with a lot of hopes, a lot of questions, and even some ideas perhaps of good bipartisan legislation we can put together.”
She then gave the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman a hug.