Updated Jan. 30 at 11:51 a.m.: Revised to reflect that Cruz’s original tweet was deleted.

The lawyer of a key figure in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is criticizing a viral tweet by Sen. Ted Cruz, labeling the Texas Republican “Fake news Ted Cruz.”

As Wednesday’s proceedings began on the Senate floor, Cruz tweeted about “scenes from the impeachment trial,” writing that “minutes ago, Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas was ejected from the gallery” because of the court-ordered electronic monitoring device Parnas is wearing as he faces campaign finance-related charges in New York. Cruz signed the tweet “#Cantmakeitup.”

“That’s impossible,” said Joseph Bondy, Parnas’ lawyer. “Lev Parnas did not attempt to enter the Senate gallery today. We knew that he would be unable to enter because of his ankle bracelet. ... There was never an occasion in which he entered the gallery and got ejected, and anyone who would say that would be just wrong.”

Still, Cruz’s tweet received tens of thousands of favorites and retweets, before Bondy challenged Cruz’s tweet with his own.

“Fake news Ted Cruz, makes up something that can’t be made up,” Bondy wrote. “Lev Parnas’ attorneys attended the trial, while Lev joined us for a unity walk & press conference. Lev wasn’t ‘ejected.’”

Fake news Ted Cruz, makes up something that can’t be made up. Lev Parnas’ attorneys attended the trial, while Lev joined us for a unity walk & press conference. Lev wasn’t “ejected.” Read the news, check the facts, #callthewitnesses. Why not depose him now, Ted? Just let us know. https://t.co/PInidwLra6 — Joseph A. Bondy (@josephabondy) January 29, 2020

Hours later during the Senate’s break for dinner, Cruz conceded that his original tweet relied on faulty information.

“Turns out, what I was told in the Cloakroom was slightly inaccurate,” Cruz tweeted. “Instead of his being ‘ejected’ from the gallery, Parnas was told he wouldn’t be allowed into the gallery w/ his ankle bracelet, and so he didn’t actually try to go in.”

The original tweet was eventually deleted later in the evening.

Before Wednesday’s proceedings began on the Senate floor, Parnas, whose activity in Ukraine with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani sits at the center of the impeachment trial, walked with his lawyers to a Senate office building and answered questions from reporters. Parnas said he was originally planning on sitting in the Senate gallery to witness the trial, but the monitoring device he is wearing around his ankle prevented him from entering the Senate gallery because no electronics are allowed in the chamber.

Parnas made news earlier this month after a recording he made of Trump urging the firing of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in 2018 was made public. Parnas and his lawyers have urged the Senate to subpoena his testimony, telling CNN his activity with Giuliani was “all about 2020.”

Bondy said he and Stephanie Schuman, another member of Parnas’ legal team, watched the proceedings for about an hour and a half — without Parnas — before leaving the chamber.

“There was no ejection from the gallery, and if Mr. Cruz had fact-checked what he was saying the same way I imagine he fact checked things when he was a Supreme Court clerk, then he wouldn’t have been saying the things that he was saying,” Bondy said.

Cruz’s Twitter has been active throughout Trump’s impeachment trial, with messages defending the president in real-time, even though senators are not allowed to bring their cellphones to the Senate floor during the proceedings. It’s unclear if Cruz or a member of his staff wrote the original tweet, which was sent at the same time as the trial was getting underway Wednesday.