Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) faced backlash this week with a tweet promoting Russia’s military over what he described as America’s “woke, emasculated” armed forces.
On Friday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper reminded viewers that Cruz never served in the army — despite once claiming in an interview to have “considered it a number of times” during college.
“I bet he does wish he served because it would be better for him politically now, but spent a lot of time in college imagining himself in uniform? Well, maybe that but probably not to serve,” said Cooper.
“When somebody doesn’t serve I don’t know that it’s a great idea to be attacking people who did serve,” the anchor agreed.
Ret. Lt Gen. Mark Hertling agreed.
“When I hear someone says, ‘I really would have liked to join the army,’ you know that’s a tell that they really didn’t think about it,” he told Cooper.
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