Sen. Ted Cruz

Communism is the most evil, twisted, depraved ideology mankind has ever produced.

It has resulted in more murder, more suffering, more torture, more poverty, more misery than any ideology.

It is unequivocally evil.

I hate communists, and I don't hide it.

They are everywhere that darkness has touched.

It has oppressed and it is empowered.

By the way, for the communists, look, Fidel Castro lived like a billionaire.

Putin lives like he's a billionaire.

I mean, it's very good to be an uncontrollable despot.

It just sucks for everybody else.

And so I think defeating communism is incredibly important now.

And it is communism is the antithesis of human liberty, of free enterprise, of individual freedom.

Sure.

Look, I I urge the president to launch this attack.

As you noted, I was with him pretty much the entire day on Friday before the attack launched on Saturday.

And so we were on Air Force One.

We were flying down to Texas to Corpus Christi at a big event planned in Corpus Christi.

So I was on the plane with him.

And then he asked asked me to hop in in the beast, the presidential limo.

And it was just the two of us one on one.