January 6th Committee Zeroing In On Ted Cruz's Schemes

The January 6th Committee is starting to focus in on Republican Senator Ted Cruz's attempts to help overturn the election results, according to recent reports. Cruz was one of the leaders in getting Republican lawmakers to vote against certifying the electoral college results from certain states, and that's just one of several instances where he appeared willing to overturn the results of the election. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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According to new reports. The January 6th committee is starting to really zero in on Ted Cruz's role in helping to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Now we've known for quite some time, basically since December of 2020, that Donald Trump initially reached out to Ted Cruz and asked him, would you be willing if we get to this point to argue this case, uh, in front of the Supreme court and Ted Cruz was like, oh, hell yeah. And of course, Ted Cruz does have experience in that arena. He was part of the, uh, Bush team for Bush V gore. So makes sense to reach out to a guy like Ted Cruz, who has previous unfortunately successful experience in that arena. But that is just a tiny little sliver of the things that Ted Cruz did because you see Ted Cruz, according to these reports was also instrumental in getting all of these Republicans together to vote against the certification of certain states' electoral college results based on bogus cl names of voter fraud.

They knew it didn't exist. They knew there was no evidence to support anything that was coming from the Trump administration or any of his allies, but Ted Cruz pushed forward with the plan anyway, because he wanted to that's why, because he wanted to not because he actually needed to not because there was any actual evidence of fraud because he wanted to, and that is what the committee wants more answers about. Now it's been revealed actually that John Eastman, the Trump attorney who, you know, according to a judge last week, definitely committed some crimes. He recent, he testified in front of the committee and they asked him straight up. Did you have any communications with Ted Cruz? I, the question was, um, well, basically. Yeah. Did, did you have any communications with him? Had you spoken to him any communication with Senator Ted Cruz regarding efforts to change the outcome of the 2020 election is the exact quote. Do you know what Eastman said? He said nothing. Cuz he pleaded the fifth.

He pleaded the fifth of course, because that's the amendment that protects you against self-incrimination. So we have to, you know, by deductive reasoning here, we have to assume that he did in fact talk to Ted Cruz and that the conversation may have been so bad that it implicates Eastman in an actual crime. Now here's what I love about this, the pleading of the fifth. And I think I've discussed this, uh, here in the past, I know I've discussed an on ring of fire pleading the fifth amendment. Isn't gonna protect you in an instance like this pleading the fifth amendment only helps you in a jury trial because a ju a judge will instruct the jury if a defendant pleads the fifth or hell, if anybody pleads the fifth, uh, to disregard everything up to that point, basically it makes, makes it as if, excuse me, the question were never even asked.

And in fact, pleading the fifth can sometimes even get certain evidence dismissed, but this isn't a jury trial pleading. The fifth can be used against these individuals. The committee is able make inferences based on these pleadings. Now they cannot criminally convict him because he pleads the fifth. You are still protected from that, but they don't have to disregard that. They can actually use that against him to a degree. Right. And I'm not saying they can disregard the, the fifth amendment. I'm just saying they don't have to ignore that. He did it. So Eastman, you know, based on what we know seems like he's covering up something from Ted Cruz and that committee has made it very clear. Liz Channey, especially that they're gonna find out what Ted Cruz did and what Ted Cruz knew.