U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters Monday that weather modification — an increasingly popular right-wing conspiracy theory used to explain natural disasters — played no part in the catastrophic Central Texas floods that killed more than 90 people over the weekend. “To the best of my knowledge, there is zero evidence of anything related to anything like weather modification,” the Texas Republican told reporters during a press conference in the Hill Country. “Look, the internet can be a strange place. People can come up with all sorts of crazy theories.”
Cruz — who’s spread past outlandish falsehoods of his own –– made the comments after right-wing conspiracy theorists and at least two pro-MAGA politicians made posts online over the weekend blaming the July Fourth flooding on cloud seeding and weather manipulation.
