Cruz claims that the Justice Department and the FBI have been “thoroughly politicized and militarized” by the Biden administration.
Sen. Ted Cruz, speaking to Fox News for the first time from the Republican National Convention in Las Vegas, called the appointment of a special counsel to probe former President Trump’s administration “simply reprehensible.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland named Friday former Justice Department official Jack Smith to lead the special counsel investigation into the criminal investigation into the preservation of presidential documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
In addition, Smith will lead the Department of Justice’s probe of the disturbance in the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Speaking to Fox News Digital on the margins of the Republican Jewish Coalition annual meeting in Las Vegas, Texas, Republican Senator Ted Cruz criticized the nomination. He warned of the Biden administration’s efforts to “indict” the former president.
Cruz told Fox News Digital, “The Biden Department of Justice is politicized and militarized.” “This is cover for the next move, which is the Biden Department of Justice’s plan to indict Donald Trump,” he said.
According to Cruz, “this administration considers the Department of Justice and the FBI as the enforcers for their partisan agendas, and this is the climax of the purposeful weaponization of law enforcement.”
We’ve never seen anything like this before,” Cruz remarked. No government has ever sought to prosecute a former president or raid the House of a former president in the 46 years since George Washington became president.
A warrant and property receipt show that on August 8, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for the first time, seizing sensitive documents, including those labeled top secret.
The Justice Department contends that Trump was unlawfully maintaining national security material at his property, despite Trump’s legal team’s claims that the papers housed at Mar-a-Lago were declassified during Trump’s time as president.
Cruz, however, said that such FBI “activity” is “tragically” only seen in “banana republics” and institutions “where there is no rule of law, where law enforcement is considered purely as a political tool by whoever is in control at the moment.”
However, Cruz argued that the United States institutions were powerful enough to avoid such an outcome. Previously, the Department of Justice and the FBI were well-equipped to fight back, but with Biden in charge, “hard partisans” have infiltrated high professional posts and are eager to exploit law enforcement.
According to Cruz, who just published “Legal Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System,” the appointment of a special counsel “is a misuse of our justice system” in an interview with Fox News Digital.
However, Cruz added, “unfortunately, elections have consequences,” and without the Democrats’ cooperation, the Senate would be unable to issue subpoenas or convene critical hearings featuring top officials from the Justice Department.
“I could assure you 100% that we would have hearings with the attorney general, with the head of the FBI,” Cruz said, explaining how they would investigate and expose the widespread corruption and politicization of the legal system.
But under Joe Biden and the Democrats, the Senate Democratic majority was maintained, and the chances that Senate Democrats would even want to consider this are zero percent, as Cruz put it. This will be more of the same cover-up by Senate Democrats of power abuse by the Biden administration, as we have seen for the past two years.
As for “the good news,” Cruz claimed it was that Republicans now run the House.
Having worked “closely with the House,” Cruz expressed confidence that investigations will be conducted.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and the likely next chairman of the panel when Republicans take control of the House, has already asked Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and more than a dozen other officials and employees to testify voluntarily as the committee ramps up its investigations into alleged politicization at the Justice Department.
In a letter to Garland and Wray just hours before Garland appointed the special counsel to investigate Trump, Ohio Republican Jim Jordan warned that the soon-to-be-led GOP committee “may be forced to resort to compulsory process to obtain the material we require” if requests for voluntary compliance were ignored.
After being asked by Fox News Digital if the Senate Republicans would do anything to hold people accountable, Cruz said that while they “can’t issue subpoenas, can’t conduct a hearing, and can’t use the course of the force of the Senate,” they would do it anyhow.
It is the Senate’s responsibility to “shine a light” and “explain to people exactly how much our core safeguards are being compromised,” Cruz added.
Meanwhile, Trump told Fox News on Friday that he “won’t join in” the probe and called it “the greatest politicization of justice in our society” while also calling on the Republican Party to take action in response to the Justice Department’s revelation.
“I have been going through this for six years,” Trump said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Friday. In addition, I pray the Republicans will oppose this.
I have been exonerated of all charges over the past six years, from phony impeachments to the findings of no collusion by former special counsel Robert Mueller, so why do I have to clear my name again? Says Trump. “This cannot stand. That is totally unjust. It’s so partisan.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 election cast a pall over Trump’s administration.
After nearly two years and no evidence of criminal conspiracy or collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election later, Mueller’s investigation ended in March 2019.
President Trump said, “I am not going to participate in it,” according to Fox News Digital. I’m going to sit this one out.
This is “not even believable,” Trump claimed as he officially declared his candidacy for president in 2024 on Tuesday.
“That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of it. To their dismay, they turned up nothing. I make a public announcement, and then a special prosecutor is appointed, “His words. “They came up empty-handed, so they decided to hire someone who despises Trump. It’s a shameful turn of events, and it’s occurring only because I’m ahead in every poll for both parties.”
According to a statement released on Friday, Special Counsel Smith plans “to undertake the assigned investigations, and any charges that may emerge from them, independently and in the finest traditions of the Department of Justice.”
Under my watch, Smith vowed, “the investigations would not slow down or sputter.” I will make my own decisions based on the facts and the law, and I will take the investigations ahead wholly and quickly.