Ted Cruz: “Israel had for 12 days been carrying out incredibly…”

“It's anti Trump, but in this case, they're smearing our military. Yeah, look, they're trying to say it didn't have any impact. Listen, the reason the American military got involved, Israel had for 12 days been carrying out incredibly effective strikes. They'd been decapitating the senior leadership of the Iranian military, by the way, one after the other. Head of the IRGC that had head of the irgc. Israel would take them out.” (03:32–03:36)

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