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March 30, 2022, 10:23 am
A Washington Post report has revealed that the January 6 committee is investigating Senator Ted Cruz for his role in the right-wing plot to overturn the 2020 election results and keep former president Donald Trump in power. Cruz allegedly worked alongside a prominent Trump lawyer, and long-time friend of the senator, to create his own plan to object to the election results in the Senate and demand a 10-day “audit” in key swing states that could allow them to overturn their state-level results.
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According to the Post, as well as Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican and January 6 committee member, this could have produced a political chaos that could have allowed Trump to remain in the White House.
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“It was a very dangerous proposal, and, you know, could very easily have put us into territory where we got to the inauguration and there was not a president,” said Cheney. “And I think that Senator Cruz knew exactly what he was doing. I think that Senator Cruz is somebody who knows what the Constitution calls for, knows what his duties and obligations are, and was willing, frankly, to set that aside.”
Cruz began crafting this plan, alongside other GOP plots to stop the certification of the election results and deny Joe Biden the presidency, after Trump personally contacted him to ask him to argue in favor of a lawsuit over the election that had reached the Supreme Court. Cruz happily agreed and was soon working with Trump lawyer John Eastman, who crafted “key legal memos” with the goal of stopping Biden from taking power. He also pressured Mike Pence to break procedure and declare Trump the 2020 winner on January 6.
Cruz and Eastman became friends 27 years ago when they both clerked for former U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig. The judge, who now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, told the Post that he thinks Cruz played a very important role in the overall efforts to overturn the election.
“Once Ted Cruz promised to object, January 6 was all but foreordained, because Cruz was the most influential figure in the Congress willing to force a vote on Trump’s claim that the election was stolen,” Luttig said. “He was also the most knowledgeable of the intricacies of both the Electoral Count Act and the Constitution, and the ways to exploit the two.”
This information has been available for some time, but for whatever reason, the general public seemed to overlook Cruz’s role in this debacle. This latest report, however, has finally caught attention, and people are all too happy to come after the senator who everybody loves to hate.
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A reminder that @tedcruz is the worst kind of “man”: unprincipled, power-mad, and believing in nothing but his own advancement. His sordid race to outflank the equally vile @HawleyMO for ’24 & his collusion with Eastman etal is horrifying. https://t.co/vGvchsAWGE
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid
(@JoyAnnReid) March 28, 2022
*First Published: March 30, 2022, 10:23 am
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