Ted Cruz Praises Trump For Making America ‘Safer’ Right After Noting 1 Danger Is ‘Higher’ | EUROtoday

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday championed President Donald Trump throughout an look on Fox News for making America “much safer” by launching the Iran conflict — mere seconds after warning that the specter of terrorist assaults on U.S. soil is “higher now.”

Cruz made the case throughout an look on “Hannity” after greater than a decade of calling for an finish to diplomatic relations and mentioned, “This decision to attack the regime in Iran is the single most important national security decision made by President Trump.”

He continued, “By taking out the ayatollah, his top military leaders, the ballistic missiles, the drones, his naval force, all of that is making America much, much safer. And by the way, all of the clowns who go on and on and say this is for Israel? Understand, this is for America.”

When requested on the very prime of his interview a few current report that Iranian terrorists had been plotting drone assaults on California, nevertheless, Cruz mentioned, “Well, Sean, as we sit here right now tonight, the threat of terrorist attacks is higher now than it has been in decades.”

The Texas senator made no connection between the Iran conflict, which has already resulted within the deaths of at the least seven U.S. army service members and greater than 1,200 Iranians, together with dozens of schoolgirls, and the report of potential terrorist blowback in America.

Cruz as a substitute blamed former President Joe Biden for this obvious improve in terrorist threats, claiming his “open borders” coverage allowed untold terrorists to flood the U.S., and was skewered by critics for saying America is now each “safer” and going through “higher” hazard.

“Oh, for fuck’s sake,” wrote one person on X, with one other arguing: “It’s quite the opposite: we were fine until Donald started bombing Iranian schools and murdering children. Creating thousands of martyrs and activating sleeper cells. Even MAGA can see that.”

A 3rd particular person urged, “Rafael, there is one reason the US is facing a heightened threat of a terrorist attack – because Crazy Pants Donald Trump made the unilateral decision to bomb Iran. Are you really that surprised that Iran may retaliate.”

ABC News on Wednesday reported that Iran has “aspired” to assault California utilizing unmanned aerial automobiles, citing a nebulous FBI alert noting that the company had “no additional information” on any of the next: “the timing, method, target, or perpetrators.”

CBS News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs confirmed later that day, nevertheless, that a number of U.S. and state legislation enforcement officers advised her colleague, homeland safety correspondent Nicole Sganga, that “there is no credible intelligence” behind the alert.

“What makes Cruz’s statement so irresponsible is the way it weaponizes anxiety,” one particular person wrote Wednesday on X. “Instead of grounding the claim in intelligence, data, or context, it uses the specter of terrorism as a political accelerant.”

Cruz has been a staunch proponent of the Iran conflict and on Wednesday echoed the Trump administration narrative that Iran has been rebuilding its nuclear weapons program, regardless of Trump himself saying simply final summer time that these amenities had been “obliterated.”