Ted Cruz Scorned For Fiddling With His Cellphone During Capitol Riot Testimony

[Judi Lynn]

02/23/2021 07:54 pm ET Updated 7 hours ago

“He’s looking for travel deals for his next trip to Mexico,” one of the Texas senator’s critics tweeted.

By Josephine Harvey

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who requested this week that people should try not to be “assholes” and treat others with “some modicum of respect,” was pictured staring at his phone Tuesday during testimony at the Senate hearings investigating the deadly insurrection he helped inspire.

Current and former top law enforcement officials appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Rules committees to testify publicly for the first time about intelligence and security failures that led to the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Steven Sund, who resigned as chief of Capitol Police following the riot, gave a grim account of the events that day, saying he witnessed the “worst attack on law enforcement and our democracy” in his 30-year career. He described how officers were beaten with fists, bats, sticks and pipes.

Sund said his former agency had been prepared for an increased level of violence, but “none of the intelligence we received predicted what actually occurred.” As he said this, the C-SPAN livestream from the chamber cut to Cruz, who was on his phone.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-phone-capitol-riot-testimony_n_60357a7ec5b62bef367921a6

[katmondoo]

1. Another one was fiddling with his pen when a capitol policewoman was testifying about

what she experienced during the Capitol insurrection. My feelings were they both needed a slap in the face.

[Skittles]

2. Ted Cruz, lecturing people on being "assholes"

the level of disconnect with repuke hypocrites is absolutely ASTOUNDING