DALLAS — Sen. Ted Cruz characterized threats from the Chinese to shoot down a plane carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan as “an act of war,” telling a conservative gathering in Dallas on Friday that President Joe Biden should have reacted more forcefully.
“The only answer to an enemy of America threatening to murder the speaker of the House of the United States is that would be an act of war, and the result would be devastating,” he said Friday, the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“Weakness and appeasement that comes from the cheese-eating surrender monkeys is making America and the entire world far less safe,” Cruz added, using an insult that is typically reserved for the French.
