Ted Cruz

The numbers are staggering.

And let me say to anyone listening to this, if you've been a victim, it's not your fault.

And that's one of the lies these abusers try to convince children.

That it is your fault, that you invited this, that the blame is with you, and that is a total and complete lie.

She was fantastic.

This is important to happen and to go to the really corrosive power of shame.

Last year, and we talked about this earlier today, a law that I authored and we passed into law was the Take It Down Act.

And the Take It Down Act makes it a crime to post non-consensual intimate imagery, either real pictures and you see so-called revenge porn of explicit photographs or videos that

A couple breaks up and one decides, okay, I'm going to hurt my former lover and publicize.

And no one has the right to make that public and to do that to someone else.

But we've also seen with AI the rise of deep fakes.

And this problem has increased more than 3,000% in the last year.

And more than 90% of the victims are either women or teenage girls.

And when we were pushing to pass it and building the coalition to pass it, one of the things we did, the First Lady became very actively involved in this legislation.

And I appreciated she... I hosted the First Lady on Capitol Hill, and she was at a roundtable where she met with a number of the victims.

And to give you a sense, there was one person who testified who is a state legislator in South Carolina whose son...

had received it was online and he was a teenager and he thought he was talking with a cute teenage girl and the supposed cute teenage girl was flirting with him and teenage boys

Everyone can make foolish decisions, but teenage boys in particular.

This cute girl convinced him to take revealing and naked pictures of himself and to send those pictures.

It turned out that the cute girl was not a cute girl, but rather was a predator.