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Ted Cruz shreds MAGA influencer defending Trump’s Iran deal: ‘Hush, child!’
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Senator Ted Cruz fired back at a young MAGA influencer who defended President Donald Trump’s potential deal to end the war in Iran, telling him, “Hush, child. The adults are talking.”
The Texas Republican got into a fiery exchange with Alex Bruesewitz, a 29-year-old influencer who has been described as the “architect” of the Trump campaign’s “podcast game plan,” on X Saturday.
The back-and-forth began after Cruz wrote that he was “deeply concerned” about some of the details on the not-yet-finalized deal with Iran.
“President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term. He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary military results — including destroying all of their missiles & drones and sinking their entire navy,” Cruz wrote in a lengthy X post.
“If the result of all that is to be an Iranian regime — still run by Islamists who chant ‘death to America’ — now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium & develop nuclear weapons, and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake,” he added.
Bruesewitz later replied to Cruz’s message, writing, “Cool, Ted. No one asked you, bro.”
“Stop trying to undermine the President and his administration,” Bruesewitz, who served as a top advisor to Trump’s 2024 campaign, said.
The senator unleashed a scathing response, telling the influencer, “Hush child.”
“The adults are talking. I’m not your ‘bro.’ And young political grifters pushing Iran appeasement are not remotely helping the President,” Cruz added.
On a Friday episode of his podcast, Cruz described how Republican senators erupted during a behind-closed-doors meeting this week as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tried to defend the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.
“Fiery does not begin to cut it,” he described in the episode of “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” NBC reported.
He added: “My guess is there’s probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were p*****.”
The “anti-weaponization” fund was announced Monday after Trump agreed to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. However, Cruz said that many GOP lawmakers felt the proposal would be impossible to defend because it appeared that Trump had “cut a deal with himself.”
“There were multiple senators yelling at the attorney general, saying this feels like self-dealing,” Cruz said. “I got to tell you, the Republican senators were p***** – people were the entire meeting. They were screaming at the acting attorney general, and he was trying to lay out the legal basis,” he said, adding that the legal basis is “quite sound.”
Senate Republicans were on the verge of rebelling over the proposal, Cruz said, noting that approximately half were prepared to join Democrats in supporting amendments to restrict the fund.