WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz’s media empire is catching as much as his political profession, as he turns a weekly podcast begun firstly of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial right into a thrice-weekly operation bankrolled by iHeartMedia.
That’s “an enormous rattling deal,” the Texas Republican instructed listeners within the remaining installment of “Verdict with Ted Cruz” as an impartial manufacturing. “IHeartRadio is a monster. It’s bought 850 stations throughout the nation.”
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