ICYMI: Sen. Cruz: I’m Glad DOJ is Treating Charlottesville Attack With the Seriousness It Deserves
Joins Dallas’ Mark Davis to discuss his call for a DOJ investigation into act of domestic terrorism last weekend
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined 660 AM The Answer’s Mark Davis to discuss his call on the Department of Justice to investigate the act of domestic terrorism in Charlottesville over the weekend.
Audio from Sen. Cruz’s interview with Mark Davis may be found here.
“Any time you have an act of domestic terrorism, I think the Department of Justice needs to engage and investigate and prosecute,” Sen. Cruz said. “And the video of what appears to be a white supremacist or a Nazi driving his car into a crowd of people, murdering one woman, injuring a great many others, on its face appears to be domestic terrorism. And so I’m glad that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is stepping forward and treating it with the seriousness it deserves.”
Sen. Cruz continued, “When it comes to what happened in Charlottesville that breaks all our hearts. You turn it on and it just – we shouldn’t be seeing this in America. Listen, Nazis and the Klan and white supremacists, these guys are racist, bigoted thugs. They’re idiots. What they’re saying is wrong, they are lies. And under the First Amendment they have a right to speak, even those profoundly wrong have a right to speak and express their views, but they’ve got to express it peaceably. They don’t have a right to violence, they don’t have a right to murder, they don’t have a right to assault others, but if you have Nazis and the Klan speaking, I think the rest of us have a moral obligation to denounce the lies and bigotry and evil and hatred that they’re spreading.”
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