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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz said Republicans don't criticize Trump because if they do, 'he turns around and punches
them in the face' for it.Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said his Republican peers are hesitant to criticize former President Donald Trump because if they do, Trump "turns around and punches them in the face."
Cruz made the comments at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday while speaking to The Washington Examiner's David Drucker.
"Why are people reluctant on the Republican side to criticize Donald Trump? It's a number of things," Cruz said. "Unlike many people in politics, if someone criticizes him, he turns around and punches them in the face."
Cruz said he witnessed meetings in which "different Republican senators would criticize" Trump, who would then "spend the whole meeting just slamming them with a stick.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-said-republicans-don-t-criticize-trump-because-if-they-do-he-turns-around-and-punches-them-in-the-face-for-it/ar-AA12cAC4
Or they call your wife ugly.
Me.
(35,454 posts)these are the people who think they should run this country?
actly.
Their constituents are in deep doo doo if/when the doodoo hits the fan in their districts!
Real "Profiles in Courage"!
They're Senators for crying out loud. A single US Senator has a ton of power, and they can be in office until they get voted out or die.
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts).
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Walleye
(31,062 posts)The only way to beat a bully is to stand up to him
patphil
(6,216 posts)Fear takes their power and gives it to Trump. It's pathetic.
Walleye
(31,062 posts)Weenies!!!
patphil
(6,216 posts)It's purely a political smack down, and for many Republicans it's even worse than physical...badly bruised ego, possible primary challenge, and possible loss of position in government.
So they debase themselves to that guy.
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)They call us snowflakes...hypocrites all.
Walleye
(31,062 posts)Mixed together you get a good bright orange
Wounded Bear
(58,719 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(3,834 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)The other doesn't
relayerbob
(6,558 posts)Just tell him to fuck off, throw him in jail and move on. If theyd impeached him the first time, they wouldve had a compliant pence as president, and gotten everything they wanted, maybe even a victory in 2020. And the Courts? They have lifetime appointments, hes just a boat anchor. But we all know the real sticks are all the dirt and kompromat Trump has on them.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,505 posts)of shit. No he doesn't "punch anyone in the he face". That tub of goo couldn't even punch his own dick. What he does is prove over and over again who the "beta snowflakes" are. I've watched this flaccid coward turn into mush when seriously confronted. Oh but not you lot. "Please protect me from the mean words".
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)cilla4progress
(24,776 posts)????
louis-t
(23,297 posts)FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)I don't have any insider knowledge, but I'm pretty sure Ted Cruz wasn't a Senator then. Maybe Chump has the full unredacted report, and maybe he's holding it over Cruz's head. As in blackmail(?)
Chump would certainly do that if he could.
Just sayin'
Emile
(22,944 posts)Thanks Ted!
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Or are you chicken?
NCDem47
(2,250 posts)He'd just hurl insults and run to his Truth Social and fire off some tacky press release.
All of this continued myth making on how tough Trump is boring.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)It doesn't take brain cells to be a bully, just a sense of entitlement to what other people have.
But as pRes, he had access to REAL power that isn't supposed to be in the hands of a mindless bully.
We The People are supposed to be protection from that ever happening.
GOTV.
IF this country doesn't get a blue wave, we will never wash the stench of this failure's methods off our land.
walkingman
(7,668 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Just because he is impressive as a mob boss, doesn't make him Presidential material, Ted.
Sorry, you just flunked American history 101.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)What a coward.
Maraya1969
(22,504 posts)seems to never say anything nasty about him. I wonder why he doesn't do it with Casler and I think it may be that Casler will just come back with worse and tfg can't stand that. Like when Bill Maher said he had a baboon as a mother tfg sued him.
https://www.noelcasler.com/
Arazi
(6,829 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Or otherwise hurt them.
You don't cower and quaver at their feet.
Bucky
(54,068 posts)cilla4progress
(24,776 posts)Compare to Schiff, Swalwell, Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi... etc etc
Why would ANYONE want these cowards representing them in Congress????
This explains their entire MO.
bif
(22,759 posts)What's it gonna take?
MOMFUDSKI
(5,675 posts)They, collectively, had 2 chances with the impeachments to do just that. Missed opportunity. They are not real smart.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)The sad truth is a kid has to stop the bully on their own.
Any attempted adult intervention makes it worse that you "need mommy to help."
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Bucky
(54,068 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)But we knew that already.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)... then he's an extreme coward even for a Republican.
I think MOST of them are more frightened by Trump's cult of followers, by both physical threats and their votes.
Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)Hekate
(90,829 posts)Disgusting cowards