Speaking during a recent interview about President Joe Biden and the corruption allegations swirling about what he and Hunter were up to, Sen. Ted Cruz says that it’s high time an investigation is conducted and Joe is, if guilty, tossed in prison.
Sen. Cruz made that argument when speaking to Sean Hannity. Beginning, he tore into the corporate press for not fully reporting on President Biden and the growing evidence of what his family members were up to, saying, “Legally, I see every single day the evidence is growing and growing and growing, and we’re also seeing — you just played a minute ago, Jake Tapper and Elizabeth Warren, neither the corporate media nor any congressional Democrat cares at all whether the president of the United States received millions of dollars of bribes from foreign nationals.”
Continuing, he argued that journalists aren’t even accurately reporting on what Hunter is accused of and that what the evidence indicates he did is far worse than what they claim he did, saying, “Even that little exchange there where Jake Tapper asked, well, gosh, you know, it was sort of influence peddling, and isn’t that bothersome? No, those are not the allegations, Jake. You’re a journalist, or you’re supposed to be. The allegations are bribery, that it wasn’t just Hunter selling access. It was Hunter selling official favors from his father Joe Biden.”
He then pointed to what the FBI has said about the issue, telling Hannity, “Let’s go to what that FD-1023 specifically says the FBI form, a confidential human source that had been reliable previously to the FBI came forward and said that the oligarch who owns Burisma paid $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden in exchange for Joe Biden’s help getting rid of the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma and investigating that oligarch.”
And, getting to why he thinks what was going on was bribery of Joe Biden, he pointed to what bribery means, saying, “Now, what is bribery? The essence of a bribery is a quid pro quo. We remember from the first Trump impeachment. The media, Jake knows what a quid pro quo is. He talked about it incessantly when it concerned Donald Trump.”
Using that definition, he connected what Biden did as Vice President did with the allegations surrounding Hunter and his financial rewards, saying, “Quid pro quo is Latin for this, for that. Bribery is paying someone something of value in an exchange for an official favor. Now, the quo we know happened because as you noted, Joe Biden has confessed to it in a video interview where he said he went to Ukraine. He held hostage a billion dollars in U.S. loan guarantees and demanded that the Ukrainian government fire the prosecutor that is investigating Burisma and investigating the oligarch.”
Then, after laying out what Joe and Hunter allegedly did and why that would be illegal, Sen. Cruz explained what he thinks should be done and how Biden could be held accountable, saying, “We know the quo happened. The only question was, did the quid happen? Did they pay $10 million for him to do so? If so, Joe Biden is guilty of bribery. Hunter is guilty of selling bribes, selling official favors from his father. And if that is the case, Joe Biden should be impeached. He should be removed from office. He should be prosecuted, and he should go to prison, and he should share a cell with Hunter for corrupting the government of the United States.”
Watch Sen. Cruz here:
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