#NeverTrump holdout Glenn Beck gave Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) a dressing-down Monday for endorsing the real estate mogul after months of dismissing him as a “sociopath” unfit for the White House.
Unswayed by Cruz’s defense that the 2016 race presented a “binary choice,” Beck accused the Texas senator of betraying his speech at the Republican National Convention in which he urged Republicans to vote their “conscience.”
“This is all the information you had in Cleveland,” he said on his radio program. “You had this information the day you dropped out of the race, and said that Donald Trump is a ‘sociopathic liar.’ You had all this information. Do you have new information that has made you say, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s now not a sociopathic liar. He is not the guy that I very eloquently spelled out, for over a year, and now there’s suddenly a reason to believe him’?”
Cruz repeatedly pointed to Trump’s new list of potential Supreme Court nominees, which he hinted he helped influence, as the tipping point that encouraged him to belatedly make an endorsement on Friday.
Asked how Cruz could trust Trump to rely on that list, given that the Texas senator once called the real estate mogul a “pathological liar,” Cruz gave a noncommittal response.
“I hope that he would follow through on that commitment,” Cruz said. “One never knows if one will.”
During the lengthy interview, the Texas Republican never gave a straight answer to questions about whether he now saw Trump as fit to serve as president.
A worked-up Beck finished the conversation by telling his onetime ally that he was deeply disappointed with his decision.
“Ted, I disagree with you, I disagree with you strongly. But I still respect you as a man,” he said.
Beck was a little more upfront with his feelings after the interview concluded.
“For the very first time I heard Ted Cruz calculate,” Beck ranted. “And when that happened, the whole thing fell apart for me. It’s my fault for believing men can actually be George Washington. It’s my fault.”
“The interview pissed me off,” he said later. “That was so calculated that it was stunning to me.
“I think I have to apologize and say, maybe, perhaps, those of you who said Ted Cruz is calculating and a smarmy politician, I think I may have to slightly agree with you and apologize for saying, ‘No, he wasn’t,’” Beck added.
Watch video of the interview below via Right Wing Watch:
