He didn’t make them publicly. It was locker room talk.
I’m done defending Ted Cruz. I’m sick of him changing positions. I said on 9/11, “I hate the NeverTrumpers at Redstate etc and I don’t like what Cruz did in Colorado or the Convention, but I can’t bring myself to saying that he shouldn’t be a senator.”
His political adversaries made them public. They are public now. There is no excuse for them. There is no excuse for locker room talk either. It's just wrong.