41 posts from Tuesday, May 21, 2024

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We're here with our friend, Mr. Conservative in the Senate. Ted Cruz is running for re-election in the Senate against Mr. Marx's socialist, nonetheless. Ted Cruz, it is my contention that this is the most lawless administration in American history, and I'd like your input on this, on a number of grounds. He's defied two Supreme Court decisions and he brags about it. He has violated our immigration laws and he is happy about it. He violates Title IX by redefining it in the Civil Rights Act to eliminate effectively women's sports. He's violating separation of powers by legislating on his own, by budgeting and spending on his own, by using regulations to get around Congress where the EPA is running amok and so are the other departments. He's impounding federal funds from Israel despite the fact that you folks have voted to get armaments to Israel as fast as possible. He's violating the Impoundment Act and the Take Care Clause of the Constitution. He's using the federal bureaucracy to register voters in targeted Democrat areas and he's unconstitutionally appointed through his Attorney General, a rogue prosecutor whose entire job is to harass, smear, indict, and, they hope, convict Donald Trump of something, which brings us to executive privilege, which I talked about in my opening statement. He has waived executive privilege over and over and over and over again to push up presidential documents during the Trump administration, ordering the archives to give it to the January 6th Stalinist Commission under Nancy Pelosi. He's all but destroyed executive privilege. And then a few days ago, all of a sudden, he asserts executive privilege at the request of the Attorney General who's facing a contempt vote in the House to cover up his audio of his interview, the text of which is out in the public in order to protect himself from the election, which has no constitutional basis. So what do you make of all this? You know, Mark, one of these days you're going to say something I disagree with, but it hasn't happened yet. Every word of what you just said is exactly right, that this is a brazen president, this is a brazen Department of Justice, Merrick Garland, you and I both know Merrick Garland. He spent 24 years as a judge. He actually had a good reputation as a Court of Appeals judge. I had some glimmer of hope that he might do the job with integrity. He has proven to be the most partisan and the most lawless Attorney General in our nation's history. And you are right, this administration, listen, I've said a number of times, Donald Trump broke the Democrat Party. They hate him so much that their minds have been shattered. And they've convinced themselves that Trump is Adolf Hitler. And because Trump is Hitler, anything, anything, anything is justified to stop him. You talked about these ridiculous trials. In over 200 years, we have never once indicted a president or former president in our entire country's history until this past year when the Democrats have done so four times. Every one of these cases is number one, an abuse of power because they hate Donald Trump. But number two, it is an assault on the American people. It's an assault on democracy. I got to say, I actually think Sigmund Freud is rolling over. It is great because the Democrats engage in Freudian projection at a level I've never seen. They beat their chest. They say we're defending democracy and they are engaged in an assault on democracy. And you mentioned the assertion of executive privilege. I actually view that as just mockery because it is a ludicrous claim. As you know well, executive privilege exists to protect the conversations between the president and his senior advisors. Now, mind you, the radical left doesn't care about executive privilege if it's a Republican president. And that's why Peter Navarro is in jail right now because he asserted executive privilege when when Congress tried to get him to divulge his conversations with President Trump and they sent him to jail over and they're about to send Steve Bannon to jail over the exact same thing. But in this instance, there's not even a credible claim of executive privilege. Why? Because when Joe Biden was talking with Robert Herr, he wasn't talking to a subordinate. He wasn't instructing a subordinate in his administration what to do. Look, if Joe Biden were having a conversation with Merrick Garland about the priorities of the Department of Justice, that could well be covered by executive privilege. But in this instance, Robert Herr was a special counsel. He was investigating Joe Biden for multiple felonies. Joe Biden was effectively a criminal defendant. That is not executive privilege. He was not setting policy at that moment. Robert Herr was not there as a subordinate. He was there as a prosecutor. And the claim is laughable. And by the way, Robert Herr concluded, yes, Joe Biden committed multiple felonies. He did so knowingly, willingly, brazenly, over and over and over again. And then on behalf of the Biden Department of Justice, he said, but we're not going to charge him because Joe Biden is not competent to stand trial. He's too old and senile. No jury would convict him, and yet nonetheless, this person not competent to stand trial has the nuclear codes and remains our commander in chief. When we come back, Ted Cruz, isn't that the point? Which is this. The 25th Amendment is intended to deal with situations like this, where you have basically a disabled president. We know he's disabled. That's why they treat him like a a calf in a cage. You know, that's why they don't let him out. That's why when he's shuffling from the helicopter, the staff blocks him. That's why he's had less press conferences than any president. That's why he doesn't do much public speaking without his talking points. He he is the least available president to the public. They're trying to cover this up. That's why the debate standards have been set. No audience. He wants his own journalists. You can't interrupt them. Everything is built around Joe Biden's mental disabilities. Don't we as a people? They talk about the public interest. Don't we have a right to know that the Democrats are going to nominate a man who may not be fit for president mentally and physically rather than calling that politics? Isn't that exactly what our republic is about, that we need to know who these candidates are given the power of the presidency? I want you to answer that when we return. Ted Cruz, we have the text that the administration gave up of the audio of what Joe Biden said when he was being interviewed. There is no investigation anymore. There is no conceivable element of executive privilege that's legitimate here. So basically they're covering up a very flawed and defective candidate. Isn't that part of the problem? That is that we, the people have every right to know who the hell this guy is and we don't have to play along with this. Well, yeah, the reason they're blocking it, it's obvious it's politically embarrassing. If you listen to the audio, the rational inference is the audio shows what the Department of Justice explicitly concluded, which is that Joe Biden is not competent to stand trial, that he can't remember what's going on, that he's feeble, that he's senile and that audio, they don't want the American people to hear it. There's not a legal privilege that attaches to things that are politically embarrassing, but this is all politics. And sadly with this administration, everything they do is all politics. You know, when you started your litany of lawless actions by this administration, you rightly started with the southern border. The southern border. We have never had a president do what Joe Biden is doing. I've joked, but it's not much of a joke that Biden did something I thought was impossible. He made me miss Barack Obama. And listen, you and I both had lots of disagreements with Barack Obama, but when it came to immigration, Obama by and large followed the law. He deported millions of people. In fact, the left got mad at Obama, called him the Deporter in Chief. What Joe Biden is doing, no president in over 200 years has done, which is when someone is apprehended. He just lets them go. And the immigration laws say you must detain them. You must deport them. He doesn't care. He just flagrantly violates the law day in, day out. Why? Because of power and politics. He wants an invasion at our southern border because he sees 11 million illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters. And he wants power. And if people have to die, if children have to be brutalized, if women have to be sexually assaulted, if criminals have to kill Americans, if terrorists have to enter this country, all of that he's willing to do for power. It is a level of cynicism and lawlessness that has no precedent in American history. But you know, Ted Cruz, we expect an attorney general of the United States not to be a complete lap dog for the president. He's supposed to represent the people. Richard Garland, who is less accessible typically than even Joe Biden, he gets up and he says, we follow the facts and the law and the way they, but they don't follow the facts and the law. This executive privilege claim, especially when they waived constantly executive privilege to dump all kinds, thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of documents from the executive branch, where there were conversations, where there were serious privilege issues and dumped them into Congress because Biden and Garland wanted to get Trump and get this information of the January 6th committee to, to claim now that there's no legislative purpose. Of course there's a legislative purpose. And it's this, our system is not set up for a, for, for a president who has dementia, who's breaking the law when a, when his cabinet and when the vice president won't trigger the 25th amendment, Congress can't trigger the 25th amendment. When impeachment talks about high crimes, misdemeanors, and bribery, we don't have a system in place right now to address what's taking place right now except the voters except the people. And isn't that why they want to cover up the audio? Of course it is. And, and Congress has a responsibility to engage in oversight and Merrick Garland embodies arrogance and contempt and hubris. I actually think it's a very close call who is the most arrogant member of the cabinet. It's either Merrick Garland or Alejandro Mayorkas and it's really, it is probably too close to call, but both of them, when in Congress and the Senate judiciary committee, when I'm questioning and when others are questioning them, they react with utter contempt. I don't have to answer your questions. I don't know any answers to the American people. I'm going to defy the law and I don't care what you have to say about it. Personally, I think Merrick Garland nurses a monumental grudge because he wasn't confirmed to the Supreme Court and this vain, glorious man believes he's entitled to be on the court. And so he is going to abuse and desecrate the department of justice and the office of the attorney general because he's trying to carry out his grudge because he's mad that he's not a Supreme Court justice. I am shocked that there's not even a tiny twinge of integrity that makes him say, no, I actually should follow the law if I'm at the U.S. Department of Justice, but there's not. In the 30 seconds we have left, Senator, you're in a tough race. Tough, tough race. Tell us about that very, very briefly. The Democrats are flooding cash trying to beat me. Chuck Schumer has named me his number one target in the country. Schumer and Soros are going to spend over $100 million trying to beat me. What is going to let me fight back is come to my website. It's tedcruise.org, tedcruise.org, come to tedcruise.org. Make a contribution. Just this week my left wing Democrat bought a half million dollars of TV ads. I don't have the money to be on TV. The only way I can fight back is millions of patriots across the country coming to tedcruise.org and supporting us so I can keep fighting, fighting against these radical left wing ideas, fighting to defend the Constitution, fighting to defend America. God bless you for everything you do. I'd hate to wake up after the election and find out that you're no longer a senator come January. That would be a disaster. Ted Cruz, thank you my friend. God bless you. Thank you, Mark.

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Not before this time has any president or former president in American history ever been indicted for anything. Now they've indicted Donald Trump on 91 bogus charges in four different jurisdictions. I want you to think about that. He also waived executive privilege over and over and over and over again, allowing tens of thousands of presidential documents to be provided to the January 6th Nancy Pelosi Stalinist Commission, which used those documents to again try and trash Donald Trump. And after the Republicans took the House, they destroyed a vast amount of the so-called information that they had gathered because they gathered an enormous amount of exculpatory information and they didn't want that to go public. So Joe Biden uses executive privilege to destroy the power of the presidency while he is unconstitutionally using the power of the presidency much like a dictator. And that's what he just did the other day. Mark, what are you talking about? Executive privilege. Executive privilege. Executive privilege is basically a privilege that goes back to George Washington that protects separation of powers. That is, it protects the operations of the presidency, internal communications and decision making and so forth, because otherwise a president won't be able to function. He'll have to keep responding to Congress, which would destroy the notion of balance and equality between the branches. And so it's generally understood that executive privilege should be used in a very focused way to protect the office of the presidency, which, of course, he's already used to destroy the office of the presidency, not while he's president, but for future presidents. So executive privilege, there are some exceptions and they're legitimate exceptions. The courts recognize this. Even Congress tends to recognize this. The attorney generals in the past have recognized this. Where there is not an ongoing investigation. Where there's not an issue of national security. Where there's no issue of presidential internal communications. Where there's no issue of separation of powers. Where there's no protection of investigative or law enforcement techniques. There's no claim for executive privilege. And in the case of Joe Biden, he puts out an order of executive privilege to protect what? The audio of his interviews with the special counsel, her, about events that took place before he was president. There's no presidential issue whatsoever. That's number one. Number two, there isn't an executive privilege to protect a president from being embarrassed. Or from information having a political impact. There is no such executive privilege. Moreover, any executive privilege that may exist, and none did, was waived. Because the transcript of Biden's interview with the special counsel was released. And they released it, did the Department of Justice, because they will do anything possible. Including violate the Constitution. To get Biden reelected, and in order to get Biden reelected, they want you to vote for somebody who doesn't exist. They do not want you to know how bad his dementia is. Because it must be really, really bad for them to issue an executive privilege order to prevent the audio of the text that's already released from being released. I want you to think about this. Democrats always talk about voter suppression, voter ID. This goes even beyond all that. This goes beyond the right to vote. This is the right to know who you're voting for. I love it when they say, "We have a right to know if Donald Trump committed any crimes." They have all these bogus crimes with these bogus Democrat prosecutors and the bogus Democrats, juries, and cities. And they say, "We have a right to know." No, that's different. This is a question about reality. It is a practical question. This man, up to being in charge of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth, will power to launch nuclear missiles, to make decisions about the health and welfare of the United States. And the answer is he's not. We know this because the executive privilege order was put out because they don't want you to hear the audio. This is the man who they will not allow to have press conferences on a regular basis. So he's had less press conferences than any modern president, period. This is the man who now has his staff surrounding him when he walks from the helicopter to the White House for two reasons. They don't want you to see him shuffling like people with dementia do, and they don't want him answering any questions. So he's completely under control by the staff, by the people who surround him, because they know what they don't want you to know, because they deal with him on a daily basis. We know it. He doesn't give off-the-cuff speeches. He has talking cards. When he reads the monitor, he even reads the parts where they're giving him a direction to pause or turn left. He reads the directions out loud. He has to have the names of the journalists when he ever does hold a press conference presented to him with their pictures. With their pictures. He calls for two debates, but it's very narrowly controlled. It's almost contrived. He gets to decide what news organizations that are friendly to him and his administration. They don't want an audience. They don't want open mics, so you can actually have a back-and-forth. They want to control it. Why? Because he's out of control. That's why. We know less about this president's personal life, personal conduct, what he's actually thinking, than we have with any other president. This is suppressing the vote. That is, we have a right as American citizens to know if the Democrat Party is going to nominate this president for another four years, where he would have four more years of this, where stage five dementia, where there are seven stages of dementia, can go to the seventh stage and create a constitutional crisis. We have a right to know before we vote. The purpose of this bogus executive privilege claim is to protect Biden from you. So we don't know. But what about Congress? Do they have the right to know? So here's the report. Here's the Her Report right here. One of the reasons he decided, and he says not to bring charges against Biden, among other reasons, the tradition of not indicting sitting presidents. But of course, we know this administration doesn't follow tradition. But nonetheless, is he basically concluded we interviewed this man. He's not right. He couldn't remember when he was vice president. He couldn't remember other dates about his son. He would get confused. We had the eventually the video of his interview with the ghostwriter. Same thing took place. It must be so awful, so totally awful that Mr. Her and his prosecutors looked at this and their jaws hit the floor. That's what they don't want you to hear. That's why reprobates like Adam Schiff and the Democrat Party conga line attacked Mr. Her for even saying that was gratuitous. No, that's the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter is this man is not capable of actually being president. Who the hell is running this government? Certainly by in some respect, but the staff, the cabinet members, the radicals, the 25th Amendment that was adopted in the 1960s was adopted for the purpose of preventing something like this. The 25th Amendment's right here. The Congressional Research Service 2018. Let me just read this. The 25th Amendment proposed by Congress in 1965 and ratified by the states in 1967 provides for presidential succession, vice presidential vacancies and presidential disability. Presidential inability or disability is specifically covered in section three whereby the president may declare a disability. He declares it himself. That ain't happening. And section four whereby disability is declared by the vice president and majority of the cabinet or such other bodies may be established by law. No other body was established by law. And rather than this cabinet and this vice president doing what they're supposed to do in the Constitution, uphold their oath. They've circled the wagons. They don't want to lose their jobs. Vice president wants to become president. They have no virtue. They have no integrity. The 25th Amendment is a dead letter right now. In our constitutional system, we don't have any system for dealing with a disabled president who's mentally disabled, who is not capable of doing his job. And this latest executive privilege order proves it. They're not saying we're proud of what Joe Biden said here. We release the tech. Here's the audio. Oh, we're proud. We want to debate without all these rules. Oh, we're proud. Oh, the vice president talks to the media in press conference every week. Oh, the vice president doesn't need no cards with talking points on them. The vice president, all right. They can't do that. They can't say that. And we all know that the legislative intent is our Constitution does not address a situation where you have a potentially disabled president where the cabinet and the vice president of the same party will not trigger the 25th Amendment impeachment. You say the definition of impeachment clauses does not cover this. It's you and me. We get to decide where it we have to wait to decide. And they are interfering with that. They're obstructing that by not giving the the audio to Congress. We don't have standing to demand the audio. Nobody does except Congress. And they just said, no, you don't. So there is a legislative purpose, isn't there? There's a huge legislative purpose and the legislative purpose is that we need to fix the Constitution in a circumstance like this. We may have to. And don't we have a right to know who we're voting for? You better believe it. They talk about registering as many Democrats as they can. You know, don't suppress the vote. But we have a right to know who we're voting for. And we have a right to know who the president of the United States is. Not all the scripted information, not all the propaganda from the media, not all the paid propaganda. Why do you think he wants to raise a billion dollars on commercials? Because that's how he wants to speak. They want to speak through flashy Spielberg created commercials. Joe Biden should never have been president. He should never be reelected for all the other reasons. But the main reason is he's mentally incapacitated, and that is a big deal. And just because he can deliver a State of the Union address after practicing it, just because he might have a decent debate performance, we're talking about 24/7. You're on the job 24/7. You're under stress. You have life and death, war and peace decisions to make. And we have a lot of human beings in this country who are capable of being very good, qualified presidents. presidents. It's just that he's not.

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through what is not only the worst presidency in American history when it comes to domestic and foreign affairs but when it comes to our constitution the rule of law law and order which is the core this republic he's dismantling it and he's destroying it he his department of justice and his cabinet he the media the democrat party specially in congress and this is no joke it's enormously serious you know what john adams said liberty without virtue is tyranny we have tyranny right now web a president united states was defied to supreme court decisions one of which involving the so-called student loan forgiveness the court specifically said no only congress has the power to raise revenue that is the tax to borrow and create debt joe biden said okay i don't care what you say in the greatest defines the supreme court in american history in doing so he has moved half a trillion dollars towards a trillion dollars in our tax dollars from the treasury redistributed from people who didn't go to college to people who did he does it for votes pure and simple he has decided that obama care should apply to daca these are illegal aliens many of whom are now in their forties and fifties hundreds of thousands of individuals without any statutory authority whatsoever he's using the bureaucracy right now in executive order he issued that was written for him by left-wing organization that is the departments and uh... and uh... administration of various aspects of our government to register voters all of which is targeted toward the democrat demographic in clear violation of the hatch act misappropriation of funds but he doesn't care he has destroyed title nine of the civil rights act with the signature he's destroyed women's sports but the same time he pretends that he supports women because he supports a book abortion he is routinely violating separation of powers which goes to the heart of our system he's ruling our country by executive orders uh... administration regulations in order to defy congress and get around congress that is he's lawmaking which is a clear violation of the constitution he's impounding funds violation of the nineteen seventy four impoundment act in the take care clause of the constitution because he's putting his foot on the throat of israel while he is embracing the hamas leadership and iran this is unconstitutional it's unlawful

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