Sen. Cruz said he made a “mistake” when, a day earlier, he described the Capitol riot as a “terrorist attack.”
In an interview, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson denounced Cruz for his comment and accused the GOP senator of telling a"lie."
“The way I phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb,” Cruz said in the interview that aired on the. Cruz said “as a result of my sloppy phrasing,” many people misunderstood what he meant when he called it a terrorist attack. “What I was referring to are the limited number of people who engaged in violent attacks against police officers and I think you and I both agree that if you assault a police officer, you should go to jail. That's who I was talking about,” he said. “I wasn't saying that the thousands of peaceful protesters supporting Donald Trump are somehow terrorists.
Carlson shot back that attacking a police officer doesn't make someone a terrorist:"How many people have been charged with terrorism on Jan. 6?"The Texas senator referred to the Jan. 6 riot as a terrorist attack duringCruz, who was among 147 Republicans in Congress who voted on Jan. 6 to overturn Biden's victory, said at the hearing that the riot that day was a"terrorist attack.
The backlash to Cruz's comment from conservative circles was swift, including on Carlson's show Wednesday night and on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's podcast.
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