Camp Mystic Video shows the devastation left behind by floods in Texas
Video mystics inside the camp show the devastation left behind by the floods in Texas.
Senator Ted Cruz of R-Texas was a few days of a pre-planned holiday to Athens, Greece, when flash floods to be scrapped over Independence Day weekend hit Texas Hill Country.
The senator said he spoke to state officials, including President Donald Trump, on July 4th.
He left Athens on Sunday morning and landed in Texas that night, Cruz spokesman Macarena Martinez said without specifying the exact time of the flight.
By Monday, Cruz was in Kerr County, a site of many destruction, for an official briefing.
“Texas is sad right now,” Cruz said. “The pain, the shock of what has happened over these past few days has broken the hearts of our nation.”
As of July 8, more than 100 people have been confirmed to have died, including 27 children and counselors from the area’s women’s summer camp. Ten campers and one counselor remain missing as search efforts are underway.
At the Carville meeting on July 7th, Cruise criticized the “partisan game” in the wake of weather-related disasters.
“Of course, it’s natural to look back and say, ‘OK, what exactly happened, what the timeline is, what’s different to prevent this loss of life’,” Cruz said. “It’s a natural process. I don’t think it should happen in a bitter, partisan sense, but it should happen in the sense that it’s rational.
News of Cruz’s overseas trips were first reported on July 7, comparing it to the 2021 incident in which the senator fled the state of Cancun, Mexico, during the midst of an ongoing winter storm. Cruz said the trip was “obviously a mistake.”
His pre-planned trip to Athens until July 4th followed days after Trump’s sweeping tax, spending and policy laws and voted in the Senate.
