Guess this is why he used to be called “Lyin’ Ted.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has talked a good game since he was destroyed in the Republican presidential primary in 2016 by then-candidate Donald Trump, but he will sometimes show his true colors to remind Republicans why he grew to be so reviled during that election cycle.
His appearance at the third annual Texas Tribune Festival is a great example of that, as Cruz had a conversation with pencil-necked MSNBC fake news reporter Chris Hayes about why he thinks President Trump is making big foreign policy mistakes.
“I have real concerns about our policy in North Korea,” Cruz told Hayes.
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“The President isn’t just saying, ‘I want to do a deal with them,’ which, again, I would favor,” Hayes responded.
take our poll - story continues below Who do you believe is the most intolerable member of congress? “He’s actually saying, ‘He’s a great leader. I literally love him. He writes these beautiful notes, and I think he is a great, great leader for his country.’ It is a gulag state that every part of the American spectrum of political ideology agrees is one of the most ghastly, uh, mad scientist experiments of human subjugation on the globe,” Hayes said while Cruz sat there and nodded along.
The exchange can be seen here:
.@TedCruz at #TribFest19: "I have real concerns about our policy in North Korea." https://t.co/6o4Uvw0oPT pic.twitter.com/fuigH0dcbB
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 28, 2019
Cruz also complained publicly after President Trump fired John Bolton as national security adviser. Cruz called Bolton, who supported the Iraq war and has a long record of incompetence on matters of foreign policy, a wise confidant who should have stayed in the administration.
I sincerely hope his leaving the White House does not mean that the deep-state forces at State and Treasury—who have been fighting tooth and nail to preserve the Obama Iran nuclear deal—have finally convinced the president to go soft on Iran.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 10, 2019
Additionally, enabling Europe to send an economic lifeline to the Ayatollah would return to Obama’s failed foreign policy and undo the single greatest national security victory of the Trump Administration.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 10, 2019
