Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) compared the Islamic man who committed a terrorist attack in New Orleans’ French Quarter this week to another Islamic terrorist who attacked a U.S. military base in 2009.
Cruz’s remarks came after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who pledged allegiance to ISIS before the summer, used a rented truck to mow down dozens of people during the early morning hours on Wednesday before he opened fire on law enforcement and was subsequently killed.
“Well, the FBI has, in far too many instances, not kept their eye on the ball, and that is one of the reasons that Donald Trump is coming into office with an agenda of fundamentally reforming the Department of Justice and the FBI, getting it back focused on its core mission, ending the weaponization, ending the politicization,” Cruz said on his “Verdict” podcast this week. “And its core mission includes preventing…
