Cruz Posts Photo with F Word in Full View
and Claims Kirk Suspect Had Trans Roomie
Capitol Inside
September 15, 2025
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz declared on Sunday that a "deranged bastard" had defaced a Houston freeway structure with an obscene remark about Charlie Kirk before the veteran federal lawmaker claimed that the conservative activist's alleged killer had a transgender roommate.
Decked in long-sleeve shirt and jeans, Cruz didn't let the muggy weather with temperatures in the mid-90s stop him from spending part of the afternoon trying to hide the Kirk-inspired graffiti that began with the F word by covering it with white paint with the help of a long-handle roller.
"Some deranged bastard put this graffiti on the 59 freeway in Houston," Cruz said in a post on X. "TXDOT has been notified & I’m sure sure they will remove it expeditiously.
But, in the meantime, Texans don’t have to look at this hateful garbage anymore."
But Cruz post a picture on social media with the obscenity in plain view for anyone who visited his page on X to see along with a second photo that shows it covered up with paint. The state's junior U.S. senator remained laser-focussed on the Kirk assassination during an episode of his podcast called Verdict.
"Charlie Kirk's Killer Caught, Assassin has Transgender Roommate, How the Left is Lying about it & Why Political Violence is a Massive Problem for Them," Cruz wrote on X in a pitch for the talk show.
Cruz appeared to be passing along unsubstantiated speculation about the suspect in the shooting - Tyler Robinson - without mentioning that his father was a police officer and that the family is Mormon. Conservatives have contended that Robinson had been a product of a radicalized upbringing without any apparent supporting evidence.
Two days before Cruz seized on the roadside graffiti for the photo op and video, a Texas Tech student was arrested for mocking Kirk mourners in Lubbock on Sunday in an incident that will give a new Texas House and Senate committee timely fodder for an investigation into political extremism on college campuses in the Lone Star State.
Camryn Giselle Booker, an 18-year-old who's Black, was charged with battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest on Friday after a physical altercation erupted at the Kirk vigil in Lubbock. Kirk supporters contended that Booker was behaving overly aggressively, putting her phone up to their faces, calling them racists and fascists and using profane language to show her disdain for Kirk.
The teenage Red Raider was released on Saturday on a $200 bond - according to a story in the Daily Mail in Great Britain today.
The confrontation at Texas Tech should hit close to home for Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows as a native of the West Texas city. Burrows teamed with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick late last week in the formation of a Select Committee on Civil Discourse & Freedom of Speech in Higher Education as a tribute to Kirk.
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