Ted Cruz: “President Trump's threat, I believe was not a bluff.”

“I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man. Yes, yes. So look, Monday's podcast, we did a deep dive on this and, and the President's threat, President Trump's threat, I believe was not a bluff. He was not kidding. And at 8pm he was prepared to unleash holy hell and to take out power plants across the nation of Iran and take out bridges across the nation of Iran.” (03:42–03:45)

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