By Brandon Gage United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other Republican lawmakers holed up in a janitorial closet during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection, according to excerpts from Cruz’s new book that were obtained by Newsweek. “Toward the end of our two-hour session, as Senator James Lankford from Oklahoma was speaking, there was a commotion from outside the [Senate] chamber,” Cruz recalled in Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System. “Suddenly, Capitol Police officers rushed in and hastily escorted the vice president off the dais. Shortly thereafter, we p…
