‘You’d Think Somebody Would Have Read Macbeth’: Cruz Educates NBC News, WaPo Reporters Who Mock Him Over Shakespeare Quote

On Wednesday evening, veteran NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell ripped Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz after he stated that the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump was “like Shakespeare: full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”

Mitchell, thinking Cruz had cribbed the quote from William Faulkner’s novel 1929 novel “The Sound and the Fury,” tweeted, “@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner.”