January, 17th, 2016 – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is hammering the Obama administration this weekend for a prisoner swap he says puts America at risk.
The GOP presidential hopeful said that, while the release of four American hostages is reason to cheer, the administration’s reciprocal release of seven Iranians raises the specter of an Iranian nuclear attack on the west.
“We celebrate all of them coming home. But at the same time, this deal is a really problematic deal and it reflects a pattern we’ve seen in the Obama administration over and over again of negotiating with terrorists and making deals and trades that endanger U.S. safety and security,” Cruz said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday.”
“This deal, to bring back Americans who were wrongly imprisoned, we released seven terrorists who had helped Iran with their nuclear program, and we agreed not to prosecute another 14 terrorists for doing the same thing,” he added.
“That’s 21 terrorists helping Iran develop nuclear weapons that they intend to use to try to murder us.”
Cruz said the capture of the sailors was a direct reflection of the “weakness” of President Obama on foreign policy.
He vowed that his first focus if he wins the White House would be to accelerate the fight against terrorism.
“I will apologize to no one for how vigorous I will be winning the war on terror, defeating radical Islamic terrorism,” he told Fox’s Chris Wallace.