What Cruz actually said:
“I think the campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment – when the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates,” Cruz said. “And today is unlikely to be the last such instance.”
He is correct. He did not side with the protestors, but did say Trump is responsible for accepting violence.
The same protestors could have gone after any candidate, and probably would. But Trump is the only one who has justified violence. And his style of campaigning - bitter attacks on the character of anyone who disagrees with him - does encourage violence. NOTHING about Trump suggests reason is the way to handle disagreement.
Cruz is telling the truth.
Cruz never tells the truth.
Cruzers trying to defend it is like blaming the rape victim for the way she dressed and not the rapist