Cory Booker Blocks Revenge Porn Bill To Spite Ted Cruz

Democratic Senator Cory Booker blocked a piece of bipartisan legislation that was sponsored by Republican senator Ted Cruz, just so Cruz couldn’t get a much-needed victory ahead of November’s election. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Democratic Senator Cory Booker blocked a piece of bipartisan legislation that was sponsored by Republican Senator Ted Cruz, just so Cruz could get a much needed victory, maybe lose in November election. That's what it was about. But you know, there's another part to it, I think it's about money too. Anytime there's a story about Cory Booker or Ted Cruz, follow the money. Okay. Just follow the money. You're gonna find that's what this is about. Farron, this was legislation that would've prevented fabricated porn, AI porn generated fabricated porn where a child is in, and there's case after case.

A 15-year-old.

15-year-old.

Who spoke to the Senate.

Yes, exactly. The 15-year-old, they create this porn with AI and they have it all over the world and makes it look like she's some kind little pervert. Cory Booker said, no, that's okay. Let's do that. Let's allow that. He's the only one who said it. Gave no reason for doing it. Follow the money on Cory Booker. He is, I swear to God, I've never done a story on Cory Booker where there was not a money trail to either big pharma, weapons industry, here, tech. Tech is his guy that they're trying to protect. Now, you have your point. Your point is, no, it's about the election and I think that's a factor. But talk about it.

Yeah. Ted Cruz right now is in a neck and neck race with Colin Allred in the state of Texas. In fact, there's actually a poll, the most recent poll that came out, Allred is ahead by one point, which is not much. So Cruz needed a victory, something to take back to the people of Texas and this could have been one of those victories because it's a good bill. In my book, Ted Cruz is the proverbial stopped clock. He is right twice a day because there's a couple things that Cruz has said over the years where I've sat here and said, hey, I agree with him. Term limits for the courts, term limits for Congress. I like it. But this was a good thing. Had the support, God, how many Democrats do you have on it? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Virtually, name the Democrat. Name the Democrats. Just think, these are Democrats who said, we gotta have this because of what happens to kids if we don't.

Yeah. Its Amy Klobuchar, Richard Blumenthal, Jacky Rosen, Laphonza Butler, John Hickenlooper, Raphael Warnock, Martin Heinrich, all of them co-sponsored this with Ted Cruz. And Booker comes along at the last minute. They're about to bring it out. Here is our bill. We're gonna protect people from revenge porn. And Booker says, I'm submitting a formal objection to this legislation, which halts it immediately and then what usually happens in that situation is that whoever puts forward the formal objection offers the reasoning. Booker says, nope, I'm not gonna give you any reason at all as to why I'm blocking this. Now, let's all go on our six week vacation.

Here's something you need to know, Mr. Booker, here's what you need to know. This revenge porn that we're talking about, I represent human trafficking victims. I represent kids that are 14 and 16 years old. What these folks are doing is you'll have an organization in in Canada, for example, MindGeek, they'll call traffickers and they'll say, we want video of a 14-year-old being raped or sodomized in a hotel. That trafficker then goes out and does it, sends it to them, and they put it all over the country. He knows this. He knows that this is part of the human trafficking saga. He knows how ugly it is. But I'm telling you, I really do believe this, I think some of it has to do with that election. But I think if you follow the money on Cory Booker, every single time he votes, you're gonna find money in his pocket. Every time.