Ted Cruz Now Being Targeted By Special Prosecutor In Trump Probe
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Ted Cruz led the charge for Republicans to overturn, or at the very least delay the certification of, the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress. And now that it has been revealed that there were tapes of his plans based on conversations he had with Fox News hosts, special prosecutor Jack Smith has said he wants this material for his investigation. But don't get too excited - it may not be what it seems, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. So we have had a major interesting update with the Jack Smith Special Prosecutor investigation into Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. And those new developments involve Jack Smith requesting a copy of the recorded conversations of Republican Senator Ted Cruz to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, where Ted Cruz laid out his plan to her on how Republicans with himself in charge, were going to, at the very least, delay the certification of the 2020 electoral college votes. These phone calls, by the way, were recently revealed by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, as part of her lawsuit against the network. This revelation of the tapes has also, by the way, led to a potential criminal investigation into Fox News, according to gross Berg's lawyers who have been contacted by law enforcement. So Fox News may be under criminal investigation for hiding information from Dominion during that lawsuit. And now, special prosecutor Jack Smith says, hold up. You got Ted Cruz on tape. I think I need that information as well. It's relevant to the investigations. I'm looking at attempts to overturn the 2020 election. You have tapes of Ted Cruz talking about his plans to overturn the 2020 election, or at the very least, delay it. I think I need to hear those. Jack Smith says, now, before you get your hopes up, think of a couple things here. And this actually was brought up by a legal expert on social media the other day, those tapes that Grossberg has of Ted Cruz. This was a recorded telephone conversation. It was not an interview that didn't air, it was a private phone conversation that was recorded. Now, depending where you are in the country, that can either be perfectly fine or totally illegal. Like if Ted Cruz was in Texas, when he made that call to Maria Bartiromo, it would be illegal to tape him without his knowledge and consent. So if that's what happened, then this isn't Ted Cruz's in trouble. This is whoever recorded, whoever pressed record on that conversation, they are in trouble. But would Jack Smith really waste his time being like, oh, hold up. I need to investigate this thing. I think there's an illegally recorded conversation. No, he wouldn't. So it's a little confusing. It could be something. It could be nothing. Are we gonna see criminal charges against Ted Cruz? I think that's a little too much wishful thinking right there. But all we know is that at this point, Ted Cruz is a person of interest, I guess is the best term to use there. He may not be a target of the investigation, he may not be a suspect in any fashion, but the tapes where he discussed his plan might be headed to that special prosecutor who's investigating the plans to do exactly what Ted Cruz said he was gonna do. I mean, we'll see what happens. We don't have a whole lot to go on. Jack Smith, of course, could be looking at anything. We know last week he got to talk to Mike Pence, so that's a really freaking huge uh, uh, development there. Maybe Mike Pence said, yeah, Ted Cruz reached out to me. We don't know any of this. All we have is speculation. We will find out eventually though, and based on the way that things are moving, that eventually actually seems pretty close to happening very soon.
