WASHINGTON — In one of the more remarkable sideshows of the post-Jan. 6 era, Sen. Ted Cruz has been forced into damage control to reassure Trump supporters...
Texas Republican senator says ‘patriots’ at Jan. 6 riot weren’t all terrorists, just the ones who assaulted police.
“The way I phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb,” the Texas Republican told Fox News host Tucker Carlson during a testy mea culpa segment Thursday night. “I wasn’t saying the thousands of peaceful protesters supporting Donald Trump are somehow terrorists. I wasn’t saying the millions of patriots across the country supporting Trump are terrorists.”
The uproar reflects a running battle over the gravity of the Capitol attack, and the power of terms such as “armed insurrection,” as President Joe Biden called it Thursday. “For a decade, I have referred to people who violently assault police officers as terrorists,” Cruz told Carlson. But “it was a mistake to use the word yesterday because the Democrats and the corporate media have so politicized it. They’re trying to paint everyone as a terrorist, and it’s a lie.”
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