In what appeared to be a moment of misspeaking, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) said in a recent congressional speech, “How about we all come together and say ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles?”

During a congressional hearing on the current president’s actions addressing crime in cities — which seems mostly to be insulting large city mayors, ignoring higher-crime areas in red states, and then sending in armed federal officers against the mayors’ wishes — Sen. Cruz referred to Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) plea for Democrats and Republicans to “come together and have bipartisan agreement.”

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“I think that’s a great idea. We should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said. “How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murder’? How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rape’? How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles’?”

While Sen. Cruz didn’t correct himself, he might be interested to know that the current Republican presidential administration has dismantled most government oversight agencies and departmental civil rights divisions that could have taken steps to lower murder, rape, and pedophilia.

House Republican House Speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (LA) has also taken steps to stop House members from voting to release the sealed government investigation files related to the high-profile accomplices of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who was once the president’s friend.