During a Senate Judiciary hearing on white supremacy and domestic terrorism, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that the "machinery of the federal government should not be used as a tool to target and persecute your political opponents."
Cruz went on to say that Democrats repeatedly attempt to "politicize acts of violence," adding that they're trying to erase the history of the KKK, which was formed "by elected Democrats" and whose leadership "was almost entirely elected Democrats" as well as the "authors of Jim Crow laws."
