Ted Cruz: “The Ayatollah has hired hitmen and sent them to try to…”

“Iran over the last 40 years has murdered nearly 1,000Americans that they have been the leading state sponsor of terrorism for 47 years. Hamas gets 90% of its funding from Iran. Hezbollah does to the Houthis do too twice. The Ayatollah has hired hitmen and sent them to try to murder President Trump. And so I think President Trump made a very reasonable decision that he was going to act as commander in chief to stop this threat to America.” (02:53–02:59)

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