“He’s an embarrassment to the state of Texas, let me just say that. I don’t care what or who runs against him, I will work for their campaign to defeat that son of a bitch.”
“‘Because Senator Cruz is such an enemy of Putin, he’s afraid that if he says anything, it will hurt your son,’” a staffer for Cruz said around the time of the sentencing, according to Reed. “We said, ‘Are you serious?’ ‘Well, yeah.’ ‘Okay. Thanks a lot.’ So he’s never said another word.”.
The senator said he’s “very sorry that Trevor’s family interpreted this as not prioritizing his release.” He added that his office discussed the issue multiple times with the Trump and Biden administrations, as well as with John Sullivan, the current ambassador to Russia who has served under both presidents. Joey Reed says he doesn’t remember being told about these efforts.
“I hit him point blank: ‘We are not appreciative.’ He said, ‘Well, anything I can do,’ and I said, ‘We said we needed your help two and a half years ago, not now.'”
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