Apparently Cruz, whose famed 2013 marathon filibuster speech over defunding Obamacare jumped across a range of topics, has an uncanny capability to remember things he hears verbatim.
Beck claims the Senator possesses the rare ability to mentally lock down any conversation like a recorded audio file, a phenomenon known as “audiographic memory.”
According to The Blaze, Cruz disclosed to Beck that he has this special gift, but he reportedly isn’t overly vocal about it because he doesn’t want people to view him as “a robot,” and is just “not comfortable talking about it.”
Beck says that this specific skill would be an amazing asset for a future president, especially during sit-downs with foreign dignitaries: “To be able to sit down — if you could just watch all the tapes of Vladimir Putin, nobody is getting around him.”
In a profile of Cruz in The New Yorker, one of the Senator’s early teachers, Winston Elliot III, remarked on Cruz’s impressive memorization skills: “Ted was just an amazing speaker at fourteen, by far the most impressive student we ever had.”
He added: “Our program is very much committed to private property, free markets, and constitutionally limited government. When it came to the Constitution, Rolland was a great believer in original intent, and so the focus was very much on what the Constitution says. We brought in a memorization expert. We wanted them to focus on the words. Ted was just an ideal student, because he just absorbed everything, and he came from a conservative family in the first place.”
Co-host Pat Gray even posited that Cruz’s rare ability has likely only been shared by one president in U.S. history: Thomas Jefferson.
