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Sen. Ted Cruz is standing his floor, refusing to apologize to Paul Pelosi for sharing conspiracy theories concerning the hammer assault … even after seeing the surprising police video of what went down.
The Senator was at Reagan National Airport after we bought his response to the physique cam exhibiting David DePape smash Pelosi within the head with a hammer — he referred to as it the “totally unacceptable” actions of a “deranged lunatic.”
Although he was fast to sentence DePape … Cruz bought a lot quieter after we requested if he’d apologized to Pelosi for supporting, or on the very least, selling theories suggesting there was one thing shady concerning the particulars of the assault.
In one occasion, he reshared a tweet that shot holes within the concept DePape was “some type of militant proper winger” … regardless of studies he really had been posting on far-right political blogs.
As we reported, DePape attacked Pelosi with a hammer inside his and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s SF house.
DePape — who’s since been charged with tried homicide — instructed the FBI he was planning on shattering the Congresswoman’s kneecaps, as a result of he thought she was a liar.
Despite all that data, the physique cam and surveillance movies exhibiting DePape smash a again door to enter the Pelosi house … Sen. Cruz is refusing to even acknowledge an apology is likely to be applicable.
He instructed us the “ideas and prayers” he despatched to his fellow lawmaker the day it occurred nonetheless stand … and that is all he is bought for the Pelosis.