This man is famous for speaking carefully.
He is defending calling those who assault police officers terrorists. And he moves to reinforce his claim of having called them terrorists for years by saying "if you assault a cop, you should go to jail".
How does this reinforce that they are TERRORISTS?
Weak as water, this. Officers get assaulted from one end of this country to another, every single DAY. Cruz has never called THOSE people terrorists that I know of. They're criminals. But terrorists? Doesn't make any sense.
I'm not buying it. He used lefty language where it does NOT apply, and it helps the left's mischaracterization of 1/6. He has not explained himself. This is not an explanation. And by the way, whereas a couple of hundred people went into the capitol, the number of people who assaulted officers that day is less than ten. Considering the size of the crowd in attendance, that's statistically nobody.
This remains a betrayal of his constituency.