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Top 10 Questions Tucker Carlson Would Have Asked Ted Cruz If He'd Had More Time

Top 10 Questions Tucker Carlson Would Have Asked Ted Cruz If He'd Had More Time

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Top 10 Questions Tucker Carlson Would Have Asked Ted Cruz If He'd Had More Time
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“In 2016, Donald Trump criticized your wife’s looks and said your father helped assassinate John F. Kennedy. After criticizing Trump — you called him a ‘sniveling coward’ — you spent every waking moment since lavishly licking every part of Trump’s body so he’d forgive you for that ‘coward’ comment while never apologizing for humiliating and slandering your family. What possessed you to be so shamelessly pliable?”

“Al Franken said, ‘I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.’ OK, it’s easy to dismiss Franken, but Senator Graham said, ‘If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.’ And even in a state like Texas, a very, very red state, while you keep winning, you barely exceed 50 percent of the vote. Why are you so hated by everyone — and please don’t say it’s because you tell it like it is? The people who like you don’t like you very much. There is a visceral disgust everyone has. Is everyone wrong?”

“In terms of Fox News, to quote Michael Corleone, you and I are part of the same hypocrisy. I worked there; you danced for them. Why don’t you admit you were a useful idiot? I did.”

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