Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) interview with journalist Kaitlan Collins descended into farce as Cruz claimed the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk underlined a “left-wing problem” with political violence.
The Republican senator continued the partisan messaging on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s “The Source,” following in the footsteps of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, among many other right-wingers, in blaming “the left” for America’s growing political violence problem. (Even Trump’s own DOJ found that the far-right commits more political violence than the left.)
But Cruz appeared to go further to make the case against liberals and leftists by claiming that a man who allegedly shot two Democratic lawmakers and their families in June was not actually a conservative but “a deranged lunatic.”
Vance Boelter, the suspect in the fatal shootings of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, stopped at four homes of Minnesota state legislators before ultimately fleeing under police gunfire. All of the targets were Democrats.
Boelter also worked as a pastor preaching against abortion.
