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Senator John McCain called Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) a couple of “wacko birds” after they conducted a filibuster of CIA Director John Brennan’s drone policy. The left-wing Nation magazine has expressed alarm at the prospect that Cruz might become attorney general. Senator Lindsey Graham, however, who once joked of murdering Cruz on the floor of the Senate, arguing that if the trial was in the Senate “nobody would convict you,” has said he would be fine with Cruz on the Supreme Court. And the man who defeated him for the Republican nomination, and called him “Lyin’ Ted,” President-elect Donald Trump, hosted him at Trump Tower for five hours this week amid speculation that Cruz is Trump’s first choice for attorney general.
Trump and Cruz fought a bitter battle for the Republican nomination, a battle that degenerated into personal insults before it was over. Although Trump invited Cruz to speak at the Republican National Convention, and Cruz did so, the Texas senator did not, at that time, endorse Trump.
But Cruz eventually did announce his support for Trump, specifically citing the importance of Supreme Court nominations, and that Trump had endorsed Cruz’s battle against President Obama’s decision to turn over an important part of the regulation of the Internet to an international body. Since then, the relationship has become much more cordial. Cruz even came to Trump’s defense against the post-election protesters, calling them hypocrites, because they had questioned Trump’s dedication to the process when he refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election, if he lost.
Trump Considering Ted Cruz for Attorney General
Trump and Cruz fought a bitter battle for the Republican nomination, a battle that degenerated into personal insults before it was over. Although Trump invited Cruz to speak at the Republican National Convention, and Cruz did so, the Texas senator did not, at that time, endorse Trump.
But Cruz eventually did announce his support for Trump, specifically citing the importance of Supreme Court nominations, and that Trump had endorsed Cruz’s battle against President Obama’s decision to turn over an important part of the regulation of the Internet to an international body. Since then, the relationship has become much more cordial. Cruz even came to Trump’s defense against the post-election protesters, calling them hypocrites, because they had questioned Trump’s dedication to the process when he refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election, if he lost.
Trump Considering Ted Cruz for Attorney General
