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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a truly memorable gaffe on Tuesday that is quite an example of saying the wrong thing the wrong way at the wrong time.
During a committee hearing, the Texas Republican was remarking on New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s comments about the need for bipartisan agreement.
“I think that’s a great idea — we should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said before offering a rhetorical statement that didn’t come across as he probably intended.
“How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murders.’ How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rape.’ How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles.’”
Yes, there’s a clip.
A Cruz spokesperson admitted to HuffPost that the senator made “a verbal slip” while “rattling off a series of crimes we should unite in opposing, started a sentence about opposing pedophilia, and added a stray word while talking it out.”
Mistake or not, Cruz’s comment comes as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is being accused of keeping the House of Representatives out of session to delay a vote to release all the files on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with the sex trafficking of minors before he died in 2019.
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Cruz’s gaffe also occurred at a time when President Donald Trump is trying to minimize interest in the Epstein files after Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly told Trump in May that his name came up multiple times in the documents.
Trump has since referred to speculation about Epstein’s crimes and criminal associates as a “Democratic hoax.”
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