Slamming 73-year-old President Donald Trump for suggesting that 76-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden and his 50-year-old son Hunter should be investigated by China, 48-year-old Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) grabbed headlines in the anti-Trump press. With the House busy with its impeachment inquiry into Trump’s July 25 phone call with 40-year-old Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Cruz gave the press some red meat. Asked Oct. 13 by Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face The Nation” whether it’s appropriate for Trump to ask China to investigate the Bidens, Cruz said “of course not.” “Election in the U.S. should be decided by Americans and it’s not the business of foreign countries—any foreign countries—to be interfering in our elections,” Cruz said. Cruz didn’t give Trump the benefit of the doubt that he was not interfering with a U.S. Election, he was investigating corruption by the former VP and his son.
Cruz and other key Republicans don’t see how the press uses them to attack Trump, confirming their theory that Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors when he spoke with Zelensky July 25. But Trump has said emphatically that he only inquired about corruption, nothing to do with a presidential election. Concerned more about Hunter getting $50,000 a month on Ukraine’s Burisma Holding board, a natural gas company, Trump was only obliquely concerned about Joe, because he bragged at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2016 about getting Ukraine’s chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired when he wanted to investigate Burisma Holdings. Cruz had no information to implicate Trump into “interfering” in a U.S. election, especially because Joe is not his Party’s nominee. Cruz gave “Face The Nation” exactly what they were looking for: Dirt on Trump.
Since Trump beat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Nov. 4, 2016, Democrats have looked to impeach him or de-legitimize the election. Democrats have been open about wanting to get rid of Trump from Day 1. They put all their hopes into Special Council Robert Mueller’s 22-month, $30 million investigation. When Mueller delivered his findings in his Final Report March 23 essentially clearing Trump of Russian collusion, Democrats were apoplectic. Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), cherry-picked the Mueller Report to charge Trump with “obstruction of justice.” When that didn’t fly they found a “whstleblower” who claims second hand Trump tried to extort Zelensky for dirt on Biden and his son, Hunter.
Brennan pressed Cruz to hazard his opinion on whether it was appropriate for Trump to ask Ukraine to get involved with internal U.S. matters. “Do you thin that, say, the president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who’s been talking about Chian, who’s been talking about Ukraine, do you want him to testify about this sort of shadow foreign policy?” Brennan asked Cruz. “Listen, foreign countries should stay our of American elections,” Cruz said, knowing that Trump said the issue was about corruption. Biden’s not the Democrat Party’s nominee, only a presidential candidate. Brennan did her best to get Cruz to agree with House Democrats proceeding with an impeachment inquiry. Cruz should have asked Brennan whether or not spying on the president by an intel or State Department employee is appropriate. Calling it a “whistleblower” complain stretches the whistleblower statute to the breaking point.
When you consider that Intelligence Community Inspector General [IG] Michael Atkinson said Sept. 30 that the so-called “whistleblower” was probably partisan, it makes you question the entire complaint. Intel Chief Adam Schiff told Joe Scarborough Sept. 17 that he had no contact with the whistleblower. Schiff told Brennan yesterday that his office did have contact with the whistleblower before he-or-she filed a complaint Sept. 19 “I should have been much more clear about the whistleblower contact . . . the minute it was brought to my attention,” Schff told Brennan Oct. 13 on “Face The Nation.” Schiff inconsistency raises real credibility issues about the whistleblower’s complain, no appearing it was orchestrated, maybe concocted, by Schiff’s office. Calling snitching or spying a “whitleblower” complaint stretches the statute to the breaking point, raiding real doubts about its credibility.
Cruz not once questioned the “whistleblowr” complaint, knowing that Schiff lied about whether he had contact with the whistleblower before he-or-she went public with the complaint. Cruz did nothing to defend President Trump, accepting Brennan’s assumption that Trump tried to interfere with the 2020 election: The exact Democrat talking points. “Listen foreign countries should stay out of American elections,” Cruz told Brennan. “That’s true for Russia, that’s true for Ukraine, that’s true for China—that’s true for all of them. It should be the American people deciding elections.” No one disputes that but Trump said he was looking into corruption, not interfering with a U.S. election. If Cruz were really disinterested, he would have asked Brennan about Schiff lying about his prior contact with the whistleblower. Cruz should have reminded Brennan that Trump should be presumed innocent: It’s the American way.
