Kathy Hochul Hits Back At Ted Cruz For His Lack Of Basic Decency

After Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York attended the funeral for Didarul Islam, a police officer killed in a shooting in Midtown Manhattan, wearing a headscarf, Ted Cruz inserted himself into the discourse. It did not go well for Ted Cruz. Or maybe it did, as MAGA seemed to love it. For normal people, where respect and decency still matter, and compassion is not a character flaw, Cruz's action just pissed them off.

Mayor Eric Adams, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and independent candidate Jim Walden all gathered at the Parkchester Jame Masjid Mosque, where Islam’s body lay.

Source: New York Times

As New Yorkers mourned the victims of a mass shooting last week in a Midtown Manhattan office building, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, inserted himself into the discourse.

His comments concerned a photo taken on Thursday of Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, sitting on a folding chair inside a mosque, next to Mayor Eric Adams. To her left, men in kurtas and police uniforms kneel on a carpeted floor. Governor Hochul wears a dark pantsuit, a somber expression and, on her head, a black scarf looped over her hair.

After an anonymous social media user posted the photo and asked — appending an expletive — why the governor was “wearing a hijab,” Mr. Cruz shared the post on Friday and added, “Um, wut?”

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