Wed Jan 12, 2022 – 8:58 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — After Tucker Carlson blasted Ted Cruz for calling the Jan. 6 Capitol events a “violent terrorist attack,” Cruz on Tuesday bolstered his subsequent apology by slamming the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s targeting of nonviolent individuals near the Capitol on January 6. Cruz also grilled the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on whether Ray Epps was an FBI federal agent inciting criminal activity that day.
During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Cruz began with harsh criticism of the DOJ’s “wildly disparate standards” regarding who they target for prosecution.
Cruz noted that the DOJ was “targeting a lot of nonviolent individuals” who were at the Capitol on January 6, even as they neglected to address violence across the country committed, for example, during Antifa riots. Cruz pointed out that “there were over 700 police officers injured by Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots” in 2020.
Addressing Matthew Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the DOJ, Cruz said, “We asked you, why is it that you won’t target the rioters and terrorists who firebomb cities across this country? The answer we got from the Department of Justice was
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