‘Weakness and surrender’: Ted Cruz seeks to move on from Tucker Carlson mauling
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5TSYZ)
The Republican senator was widely mocked after being forced to walk back his description of 5 January as a violent terrorist attack'
Ted Cruz used Twitter on Friday to accuse Joe Biden of signaling weakness and surrender to Putin" over Ukraine - but the Texas senator could not escape a crisis of his own, stoked by widespread accusations of weakness and surrender in the face of the Fox News host Tucker Carlson, over remarks about the deadly Capitol attack.
On Wednesday, a day before the first anniversary of the attack by supporters of Donald Trump attempting to overturn the election, Cruz described a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol, where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage".
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