MAGA Senator Bungles Trump’s Big Claims on Iran’s Threat

Everyone’s most hated Senator flubbed one of the president’s main justifications for attacking Iran this weekend. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has admitted that the risk of Iran threatening the U.S. with nuclear missiles isn’t quite the imminent threat President Donald Trump has claimed. Asked on Face the Nation Sunday about what was being done to secure Iran’s supposed nuclear armory, Cruz responded: “Look, the quantity of nuclear material, I didn’t say anything one way or another on that, what I said is they were building nuclear weapons a year ago and our bombing took that out.” After noting that the U.S. and Israel’s 2025 Twelve-Day War “took out” Iran’s nuclear assets—with Trump at the time celebrating their complete destruction—Cruz added of Iran, “They also had an ongoing desire to rebuild them.”