By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz jokingly confessed that he is the notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
“I did it,” Cruz said, retweeting a post from the FBI on Sunday that read, “#OTD in 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper parachuted from a plane he had just hijacked, clutching a bag filled with stolen cash. Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? What happened to the stolen money? Read about this unsolved mystery.”
I did it. https://t.co/xNA9CGCmxT
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 24, 2019
But why would the conservative Texas senator crack the joke?
For at least a year, people on Twitter have suggested Cruz bears a striking resemblance to FBI sketches of D.B. Cooper. Around the same time, Twitter users jokingly suggested Cruz was the Zodiac Killer.
In case you don’t know about Cooper, he boarded a plane in Portland, Ore., and claimed to have a bomb and had the plane fly to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he got the ransom money. He subsequently parachuted from the plane and was never found.
Here’s what Cruz looks like. You be the judge.
