“Objectively false.”
During a media appearance this week, Texas Senator Ted Cruz got into a heated exchange with CNN host Kaitlan Collins over the motive of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson.
Collins attempted to claim no motive was known; Cruz wasn’t having it.
“We don’t have a motive yet. We don’t know yet. We’re waiting. Obviously, we’ve heard what the governor has had to say, what the FBI director had to say today,” Collins said during her show “The Source.”
“Of course we know. Come on, we don‘t have a motive yet? We don’t have a motive yet, really? That’s CNN’s position? He just happened to fire the gun in celebration. You can’t tell the motive here?” Cruz responded.
Collins pushed back, saying that wasn’t what she said.
“I’m not arguing with you politically. I’m saying that law enforcement has not put a specific motive. You know that there’s a difference of what they’re pointing in a legal argument than what you’re talking about,” Collins said.
“What you are saying is objectively false, and CNN should not be engaged in misinformation,” Cruz said as the two spoke over one another. Collins insisted it was “not misinformation” and that she had laid out the facts.
Collins went on to ask Cruz if he wanted to see “right-wing groups” looked into and prosecuted.
“I believe anyone engaged in acts of violence should be prosecuted and go to jail,” Cruz responded. “There has been an enormous amount — and CNN has been guilty of this — of bothsidesism, of saying, ‘gosh, both sides are violent,’ and understand, yes, there is some violence on both sides, but it is the left that overwhelmingly celebrates this. It is leftists that have been celebrating. You look at Bluesky, and it is a cesspool of leftists celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk.”
Watch the exchange above.
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