The Texas Senator who has been morphing into a wolf like caricature, left himself naked to his enemies yesterday by his own choosing. After proclaiming the J6 protestors were “violent terrorists”, the articulating stutterer must have realized he stood on a political landmine.
Ted Cruz quickly appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson in an attempt to regain credibility. It’s interesting that Cruz chose the Tucker Carlson show for the effort, and it’s interesting that Carlson gave him the opportunity. However, the result was predictable. You cannot create authenticity where only inauthenticity exists. If you try, what you end up with is a hole digger that keeps digging. WATCH:
…”The more he spoke of his honor the faster we counted the spoons.”
Does anyone have the soundbites of Cruz calling BLM/ANTIFA domestic terrorists?
I have been asking for that video too. I hope someone finds it and posts it soon…
Just a quick pass on ggle shows wtiters saying Cruz called the terrorist organization racial bigots.
– The writer refers antifa as a terrorist group. Not Ted
– Coward Ted could not even call Antifa “racist”. He called them “racial bigots”!
Deceiver Ted.
T U R N C O A T
Politely disagree.
He is what he has always been.
Yup, a seditious traitor.
You ARE DONE HERE Ted…..You FULLY exposed yourself to us….THANK YOU SIR…..Now go away….
Due to where Cruz was born he should never ever have tried to run as President! On Cruz’s self admitted birthplace alone the Globalists would have eliminated him from the ballot! Actually i still wonder if that was the reason Cruz ran in order to leave an opening for Jeb Bush or just give the election to globalist Hillary! Then on top of eligibility issues, Cruz ran the most filthy dirty sleazy primary that I’ve ever seen!
Regardless of what any one has said about Cruz I lost any trust I once had in Cruz during the 2016 primary! From 2016 forward I’ve always had a leery eye on RINO Cruz!! Yesterday Cruz finally let everyone see what a traitor he is!
from what I’ve seen on social media I do believe he just lost himself his next senate election with what he did and said yesterday!
Whether Wurmtongue Ted was angling to get on SCOTUS or to play to the ‘moderate’ (nee RINO) republicans for another POTUS run is immaterial. He showed he is an unprincipled and untrustworthy shyster opportunist who does not deserve to hold any public office ever again. He jumped into the same self-absorbed canoe as Kristi Noem when she vetoed the SD law banning trans perverts from competing in womens’ sports due to her purported concern about losing corporate investment in SD.
The leftard tyrants are already overflowing with unprincipled scumbags working to destroy our Constitution and the once great Republic we had. We do not need controlled opposition parasites like Haley, Noem, Hutchison, and Cruz to keep playing Lucy tempting us while we Charlie Brown along in repeated failed attempts to kick the political football.
I am ashamed that I once donated to Cruz when he was running for the Senate. I will never donate nor vote for such a dishonest moral coward ever again.
The left has no principles other than ‘By Any Means Necessary’. It is long past time for those who still want to live in a Constitutional Republic, and who want to pass such freedoms on to our children, to stop playing by bogus Marquis of Queensbury rules while the leftards fight dirty.
Do not comply. Do not remain silent when they push their evil agenda via lipsticked pigs and political seduction.
Absolutely brilliant. Find me one senator who is currently fighting publicly to remove Fauci (not argue with him in senate hearings), or is currently publicly fighting alongside the uber-patriotic Mike Lindell to decertify the election.
Democrats go to Washington to change America (to a Marxist model) and they will bet everything to make it happen. Republicans go to Washington for a cushy job with a lot of cool perks and will fight hard to keep that job.
That is the difference between Dems and Republicans, and the primary reason our country is being transformed into a Marxist cesspool.
I believe that Senator Rand Paul has called Fauci out.
I won’t vote for Ted Cruz ever again. Nor, if I get the chance, the one-eyed Cheney.
I am tired of these fake Patriots. Cruz did that for a reason and now he’s back-tracking and won’t tell us the truth.
I live in Texas. Both our Senators need to go now. Very sad.
Agreed. Just last month Cornyn was one of 14 RINOs that voted to invoke cloture and give usurper Biden a blank check on raising the debt ceiling. Cornyn also voted to confirm Merrick Garland to the Department of Injustice. And there was also this: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2017/01/24/nikki-haley-confirmed-as-u-s-ambassador-to-u-n-mcconnell-and-cornyn-maintain-gope-trickery/
However as you probably know, in the primary the GOP will use a splitter strategy and put 10 or more candidates on the primary ballot. The strategy is to flood the primary with so many candidates that the most conservative candidate will get lost and knocked out of the runoff with the GOP favorite. For example, in one of the 2018 primaries for a Texas Congressional seat there were 18 names on the ballot.
Rick “Medicare Fraud” Scott and Little M.I.A Marco are also crooked as a barrel of snakes.
Ask every candidate in your state running for congress or senate if they agree with Ted Cruz here and buy his explanation. Ask if they agreed with Pence J6 decision.
Listen closely to their answers. If they allow either any credibility or avoid answering at all, saying they are too busy with local issues and not aware of these things, they are nevertrumps. Oh, they may have voted for him in the general but always remained embarrassed by being associated with many MAGA voters.
Really make a point to question on Cruz and Pence if they entered race after a outspoken MAGA candidate who was public on 2020 election fraud. There is a woman running in Michigan, think name Mellissa Carone, who even testified with Guiliani on election fraud. Then the Republican party puts up another woman, running on fixing elections for future, not dealing with 2020. Of course, she is a veteran, a church-goer, puts God before everything.
These things are not bad, and lady is probably genuine, but sounds too much like the words Ted Cruz ran on and like Pence’s voting his conscience.
Most importantly, she entered after MAGA lady, instead of supporting.
Not to mention, did not support and work with Carone on the Michigan fraud fight.
Ted was tasked by the Uniparty to feed the Democrat Hivemind media apparatus that feeeds thoughts into the democrat trusting minds (Ted was dispensible due to Beto and Dominion coming – and Cornyn being a traitor).
he fed the narrative that – ‘the coming soft assault on Trump Supporters is valid and they are enemy combatants’
Summary — Uniparty tasked Ted to make this statement so that the HiveMind Americans will be OKAY WITH the coming assualt on every person that supports PDJT in ANY FORM AT ALL’
will be soft assualted (all communications reviewed; all jobs they can affect contacted to cause pain on you; all finances scrutinized for pain, etc)
if you do not know your neighbors, or have a good 100+ people friend ground within 20 miles of you – you are less safe than the Bundy Ranch verus BLM (land management).
ex-presidential candidate…..
He put a gun with a silver bullet to his head and pulled the trigger. “He’s dead Jim. “.
He should be thankful he’s not up for re-election to the senate this year.
The only hope Ted Cruz has at this time to regain ANY credibility is to get the J6 political prisoners freed.
And even then it’s doubtful.
But maybe he should try.
Just another beast dweller.
This had to be on purpose, and the purpose had to be to ultimately rally the “GOP of the 23 Knives” around Cruz in 2024 against the MAGA majority.
Who’s left in the GOP who isn’t a forked-tongue enabler of the Dark Side? MTG? Jordan? Nunes? Not even a handful left?
Cruz is so smart, he’s stupid, like many a politician. They think they have the game honed to perfection, to say the appropriate things depending on which microphone they happen to be in front of, and then to backpedal and whitewash any attendant flack from other audiences. But that game is old and played out. As January 6th demonstrated, the TRUE January 6, people aren’t buying it any more – PEOPLE ARE AWAKE! It’s a testament to the contempt of professional politicians like Cruz for his constituents that he actually believed that this bait-and-switch dog and pony show would convince anyone.
The new game has new rules – you’re all on probation until that second, that split second, that you prove that the trust is not warranted. After that, you’re done. Because THAT is the way a free people manage a free Republic. Ted is done. Forget the presidency, he’d better start scheming on how he’ll even hold on to his Senate grift.
Sounds like my ten yr young granddaughter
explainingwhining that when she said she cleaned her cat’s sandbox it didn’t really mean I cleaned his sandbox.FTC
Ted Cruz just lost all credibility.
He lost it years ago. More people are finally seeing what others have pointed out for years.
Ted “Soccer Balls and Teddy Bears” Cruz is a snake that need to be removed from all public office for the safety of the masses.
I love when Tucker called Cruz a liar to his face!!! Bravo!
Me too! And Tucker did it 3 times!
Ted Cruz is a politician.
If his mouth is moving he is saying carefully crafted bs for his audience.
Honestly I will not vote for any of these untrustworthy bs artists.
It doesn’t matter, I’m in Oregon, my vote doesn’t count.
Unsaid and of primary importance in discussion like this are that when cops shoot a legitimate protestor without provocation, or beat a woman half to death, or arrest a family for simply trying to enjoy a family meal out, they lose whatever legitimacy that comes with the badge they wear. Every last one of them takes an oath to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and that Constitution does not give authority for despots and tyrants to deny Citizens their God given Rights, for any cause or under any pretense. And when cops, National Guard soldiers, agents of the FBI or DOJ eschew their oath and instead become the agents that enable tyranny, they become lawful targets of the ire of the People.
Everyone from Cruz to Carlson and beyond pay lip service to our Constitution and the Republic (not democracy, Tucker) it created and yet each and every day we continue on the march towards totalitarianism and that boot on the necks of the Citizens. As Sovereign Citizens we have a Right to protect ourselves and a duty to defend Liberty for our children and grandchildren.
There is no political solution to Tyranny.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. – Samuel Adams
The only way Teddy could’ve regained any credibility would to have proven that ordinary American Citizens, Grandpas and Grandmas are “violent terrorists”. All while the only two people killed on ONE6 were two young women, both Trump supporters, who both were murdered by agents of the federal government that ran the (well documented) ONE6 false flag operation against the American people.
“When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.” – Gary Lloyd, Author
Cruz is dangerous, he is smart but worse, he’s extremely ambitious and because of that ambition, he’ll do anything, say anything, or be anybody needed to further his ambition. He and Nikki Haley are birds-of-a-feather and equally dangerous due to their mutual ambition and lust for power….and they also share the same moral principles malleability flaws. Ted shot himself in the foot on this one but he’s smart enough to cross-triangulate and plot a new course while patching the holes in his political boat. PS: He is not eligible to be president….not a NBC but apparently that no longer applies in America.
bye bye Ted bye bye
Adios, Teddy Boy. I hear they’re taking applications for greeters at your local Walmart.
Will somebody PLEASE primary this poser the next time he comes up for re-election?
God help me, I’ve been trying to, but people keep attacking me and thinking Ted is righteous. Hopefully now more will be aware of his true nature and it will finally come to pass.
It is people like Ted who are the problem and they need to be removed. Ted is a true Uniparty loyalist who would sell his own mother for a few favorable percentage points.
You’re not wrong but I’ll take Ted with his screw ups every day over any democrat!
THIS is why there is a phrase called FACEPALM!
The ONLY way men or women get this confused is when there is NO HOLY GHOST GUIDING THEM.
When you go it alone, you get what you deserve.
Ted Cruz is over. We don’t have short memories.
SO sad, but …
YOU EITHER HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT….OR AS MANY THAT WILL FIT.
If the Democrats and their RINO fellow travelers in the Republican party can get away with stealing a national presidential election, and pay no penalty for it, then they can just as easily steal the Republican primaries for the anti-MAGA RINO candidates who support their Uniparty agenda.
Ted Cruz knows this as well as anyone. Opportunist that he is, he has thrown in his lot with the Uniparty in the belief that it can deliver any election to him through fair means and foul..
He always seemed a bit greasy to me.
“Talking Point” Ted
I am embarrassed and ashamed to say I have always been a Cruz supporter and regret every dollar and vote I have given him. Beto must be ecstatic with Cruz right now as I, and I suspect many Texans, will never cast a vote for Cruz again.
Typical virtue signaling to the left that the GOP is known for and Tucker busted Cruz on it and reduced him to a back pedaling joke of a Senator. I’m glad Tucker called Cruz a liar on air because he is. Never forget that so called conservative Ted Cruz was the same guy who celebrated BLM and antifa shutting down Trump’s planned campaign stop in Chicago in 2016 and praised antifa in 2017 when they, along with BLM, used violence to get the 2017 Unite the Right rally shut down in Chartlottesville, VA.
Cruz says the Democrats & the media have been twisting words. The Dems & media don’t need to twist any words when Cruz is out there pulling this kind of stunt. What I can’t help but wonder is, who was Cruz pandering to with his “violent terrorist” garbage. He knew exactly what he was saying. The real question is WHY.
TERM LIMITS
A self targeting Cruz missle–now that’s what I call innovation!
Even the smartest of us can be hypnotized by incessant media talking points. It takes conscious effort to avoid being a victim of the communist propaganda pushed by the media, and Ted simply blathered out the same lying rhetoric because it has been said so many times. He also has a hard time admitting that he fell under the spell of the skeletor Pelosi mind destroyer.
Tucker called him out for knowingly using his words very carefully. But you know, we all get old and lose our attention spans, so I’ll give him a senior pass on this one. Sure he may run for president but he’ll get nowhere if he is still under the mind F that the left uses all the time.
The antidote and preventative therapy for this is to sit back and listen to Ronald Reagan’s speeches. I did that enough when he was our great president that my mind has been vaccinated against propaganda for life.
To start, I would suggest a very early speech which espouses principals very relevant even today. It is cleansing in it’s own way.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ronald+reagans+greatest+speeches&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqXBswFfh6AY&ia=videos&pn=1
I understood Ted to mean specifically the people who assaulted police officers, but in the context of January 6 it was certainly a poor choice of words.
I don’t think Ted needs to be president. He’s good right where he’s at.
That’s not what I or millions of others understood.
Using the left’s terminology is a big wrong bad, for precisely that reason. “It isn’t what you SAY, it’s what people HEAR that matters.”
And millions of people heard Ted call January 6 a terrorist attack.
In addition to being an imposter, Cruz is clearly not eligible to serve as President since he is prima facie not a “natural born Citizen” as required by Article II of the Constitution. Please see the excellent analysis by Thomas Lee, Fordham Law School, available here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3100411 Sadly, Cruz-as a former Constitutional litigator – well knows this, and has engaged in the most bizarre and manipulative word games to try to finesse this basic truth.
Mr. Carlson is to be praised for holding this RINO’S feet to the fire: Cruz wanted to play the Great Compromiser, and reach across the aisle, and blah-blah-blah.
“I just don’t believe you.”
Holding the feet of politicians to the fire of their own lying words used to be standard procedure for news reporters of any kind.
These days the reporters bring buckets of water to put out the fire in the politicians’ lies.
“I’m the one leading the fight against this garbage.” – Cruz
No, no you are not, you are part of the problem, Mr. Cruz, and your lying to Mr. Carlson proves it. There was no “sloppy language” and there were no misunderstandings.
LOOK AND LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL COMMENTS!
Res ipsa loquitur!
Foreign-born! I will pass! I might as well vote for the Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of the country Jordan
This wasn’t the first time Ted Cruz has used that word!!!
Anyone think that Ted was not waiting for the opportunity to get back at Trump?
You don’t move up from where Cruz is by saying things that please the people here, Sundance included
Didn’t believe a word of it. My already healthy respect for Tucker went up.
Because of the way Tucker introduced Cruz, it seems to me as if Tucker’s show invited Cruz to respond to what Tucker had said about him on the previous day’s show. Makes for good political theater, so it’s no surprise.
Uniparty member Ted Cruz, has big aspirations of being the president. Never going to happen as we see directly thru his double speak and pandering.
Tucker neglected to ask Cruz why he referred to Jan 6 as a “solemn anniversary”. How would he talk his way out of that one?
Certainly was solemn for us when that night traitor Pence turned over Trump’s election and Presidency to Biden.
My one senator took to MSM to talk about how disappointed he was with the “Let’s Go Brandon”. That he thought it disrespectful. I fired off an email Informing him no one in the current administration had my respect, not one and not even close. Thing is he’s my strongest conservative senator, strongest conservative federal representative we have in my state. I didn’t tell him I wouldn’t vote for him though. We need more like him there in DC. At the same time we need more who don’t cozy to the left or offer talking points to the MSM and the left. My email to him was hard reminder of that.
So I’m not willing to throw my senator under the bus for that one comment, but wanted him to know it wasn’t a good look. I’d suggest the same approach be done with Cruz, he’s a pretty strong conservative based on his voting record. We need more who vote like he does. Make it known his comment was unacceptable and do it as harshly as you can so he gets the hint. But I’d say you want him in DC vs any other challenger against him.
Cruz’s Congressional voting record as measured by Conservative Review in their “Liberty Score” is 82%. He scores 1 percentage point LOWER than Sen. Ben Sasse, who’s been a consistent Never Trumper.
IMHO that’s nothing to brag about for Cruz.
Cruz is a guy who has always talked the talk, but never walked for anything at all.
We really only have the American patriots. The sooner everyone realizes that, the better our position will be.
Plus, he was a Canadian citizen when he ran for U.S. Senate…only gave up that citizenship when he was found out.
Please stop…
Our politicians words matter, they are the only signals we have to the character of those who make generational decision for this country and her people. Listen these assholes are telling you exactly who they are.
To make excuses and automatically assign clean heart and intentions (‘We need more like him…’) when their very words betray us is a fools game.
Dont be a fool.
These arse holes who don’t like Let’s Go Brandon need to be reminded of their silence when Pelousey and the other Marxists marched around the House floor saying “F Trump” and not one SOB Republican said anything against it.
Bastards.
This guy Ted has been hanging by a thread in my estimation and I’m done.
I hope the fallout is so fierce he doesn’t recover.
I am so sick and tired so help me God of the deceit and chicanery of politics.
Our political system a turnkey operation for the wicked who can tolerate it?
And then, Trump is gonna mess around and loose millions in support if he doesn’t start thinking for himself and quit listening to others.
I love Trump don’t wanna be aggravated with him.
However, as I read the comments on many other sites people are really pis*ed off with his lukewarm stance on a shot that has killed or injured nearly a million all the while he insist it’s safe.
He’s simply gotta catch up!
That’s all it’s to it.
PDJT doesn’t have an option – he pushed Operation Warp Speed….which plays into your theme vis listening to others.
Perhaps seek out and listen to some of the many MAGA supporters who figured out why President Trump celebrates Operation Warp Speed. Now they do too.
Or consider figuring out for yourself what positive reasons lead the savvy genius who LOVES us to make a decision that currently puzzles you.
He obviously believes its important for his supporters to figure out these reasons or he wouldnt keep bringing it up even though he KNOWS it upsets them. That’s a huge clue from President Trump that hopefully sparks more curiosity as emotions cool down and higher brain functions come back on line.
For what its worth, I agree with him. It is important but not something he can just tell them. Tough Love Dad time. Lol.
President Trumps needs to “start thinking for himself and quit listening to others”.
Since the 80s, President Trumps motto has always been to “listen to everyone but trust no one”.
Hes always said that ultimately he makes decisions based on his gut instincts; no one elses. Some, in hindsight, are better than others. Learn and move on.
Now I read the SHOCKING news that President Trump has TOTALLY changed. If true, this is profoundly disturbing.
Please consider providing sources or a retraction and mea culpas.
Also please reconsider wanting President Trump to stop listening to anyone. That is how he personally gains intel about where different people Anderson factions are coming from. His ability to read people, glean intel and test ideas during conversations is legenday. However, its also standard practice in the real world especially for global apex predators.
Why would anyone but a malevolent want to blind and disarm President Trump, especially at such a critical juncture in our war; a war we must win if America is to survive?
Finally, the Globalist Machine had set President Trump to be the TDS triggering face of “anti vaxxers” and those questioning the covid narrative. They intended to launch TDS MOABs at the Independents, Democrats and apoliticals who are starting to wake up to shame them back into silence and compliance.
How? By calling them a Trump cultist parroting Dear Leaders dangerous anti vaxx conspiracies.
President Trumps “stance on the shot”, which he trolled the Globalist Machine into spreading to non MAGA normies, defused all of their TDS MOABs.
Now instead of the leader the Globalist wanted, TDS triggering President Trump, real scientists, doctors and activists are emerging organically; leaders like Dr McCullough, RFK Jr. and Dr Malone.
Personally, I thank God President Trumps supporters didn’t get what they “want”. Hopefully they’ll come to realize they did get what they and humanity need.
Here’s some information about Operation Warp Speed
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/dr-david-martin-who-they-are-the-names-and-faces-of-the-people-who-are-killing-humanity/
its important to understand WHY people like dread cruz WANTS to use the phrase terrorist. terrorism…domestic terrorism.
Please read and review this article from politico…
drill down and really understand HOW the courts have used sentencing guidelines (even if NOT CHARGED with the domestic terrorism), that ratchet UP AND ENHANCE penalties.
spoiler: domestic terrorism is a very real thing. One does not need to be charged with it, in order to receive a punishment by a judge all the same. It’s a very BIG DEAL. Imagine if a cop arrested you and then charged you with something like breaking a window in a federal building…So there is a statue for that. And that is what you are charged with. But the judge can ALSO AND IN ADDITION TACK ON OTHER PENALTIES ABOVE AND FAR ABOVE THOSE SIMPLE BREAK GLASS CHARGES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DISCRETION HE HOLDS UNDER PROVISIONS THAT THE ACTIONS ARE< COULD BE< MIGHT BE ALSO DOMESTIC TERRORISM “in nature”.
And THAT is where we are in our justice system. We have a justice system NOW, that does not depend on rule of law. It does not matter what you are charged with anymore. The prosecutor DOES NOT HAVE TO PROVE YOU ARE IN FACT GUILTY OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM. He doesn’t even have to mention it. He could, but doesn’t. What happens is that the Judge makes a determination…in a vacuum, without any due process rights to the defendant about sentencing guidelines that he can invoke simply on an arbitrary and highly controversial POLITICALLY NUANCED stretch of definitions to include domestic terrorism.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/04/doj-domestic-terrorism-sentences-jan-6-526407
Is Cruz wrong? Yes, fundamentally, it should be unconstitutional to allege someone is a domestic terrorist without being charged AND PROVEN as such. But is he wrong with how things actually operate in the justice system?
THAT is what he does NOT talk about. And no one in congress wants to address it. No one. It’s the dark secret right out there in plain daylight while we engage in political talk and rhetoric. But it far more than just what cruz is saying.
And THAT is why I have asked people like tucker to do the deeper dive. Look at this issue and start getting people from the DOJ on his show….court judges….other “law makers”…
demand they show how it is possible that someone uncharged and NOT PROVEN to be guilty of a specific crime that has very real penalities can actually be sentenced according to those unproven charges!
The extent to which our lawless courts have imploded due process is startling….we all need to start paying attention to these kinds of loopholes they exploit. And end them
But judges always have wide discretion with what they decide. How is this any different? I recently divorced and just in Family Law I know this to be true. This is nothing new.
No, judges don’t get to just add on charges, except in this case. That is a big difference. As the article points out they don’t have to prove it. Just say so.
thank you DD! I understand this issue is mostly unknown and misunderstood by many.
I am trying my level best to address the problems here. problems that WILL AND HAVE HAD A TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCE to the J6 protestors.
Some have accussed me and others for not caring about citizens who decided to have the courage to break the law and demonstrate at the capitol.
For those who believe “we” have abandoned them, I can ASSURE you that is not true.
While the proceedings are not going well for many of them, my team, friends, and colleagues are doing our level best to get them the very best representation and constitutional law experts to tackle the appeals that are certain to be needed to clear their names and get them back home and free again.
But we NEED YOU TOO.
We need YOU to understand the issues are very complex ….we NEED YOU to contact your representatives and object to this lawlessness and get the courts back to the rule of law and due process.
If a citizen cannot protest, demonstrate his grievances to his own government without be regarded as domestic terrorists…we are no longer the United States of America.
if the courts can determine you guilty of a crime you have not even been charged with and for which no proof of guilt has even been determined…we are a lawless police state.
There is a reason why these protestors did what they did. And for each of them, we owe them the best kind of defense and also not allow this corrupt government that they oppose attempt to sentence them for crimes they never committed.
We WILL WIN this.
We will win this because it is wrong and it is anti-american.
But we need people to start understanding the issues here and find solutions for them.
the government is not going to change it’s spots…
I have asked sidney powell and also jon turley to get involved and begin working toward the expected appeals process….
I think a showdown at SCOTUS is necessary here.
fundamentally, these issues go to due process. fundamental bed rock due process
judges having discretion to sentence are BOUND by the charges that are PROVEN.
read the article again…read my comments again.
for reasons unexplained, judges and courts have been given the power to sentence based on guidelines that do not require prosecutors to charge or even for the defendant to be found guilty.
if that seems “nothing new” to you, I recommend you read it again…closely. and understand where this has gone completely off the rails.
ted cruz understands it. I doubt tucker does.
there IS a reason why ted cruz used this language. It was not a slip. It was specific to upholding a lawless option left to the judge to place higher sentencing penalties toward a defendant even though they have never been charged with such a crime.
Think of it this way:
you get drunk and you kill someone on the road.
You are charged with that crime….
and you are found guilty of that crime.
and so the judge MUST follow the BOUNDS AND LIMITS of the LEGISLATED STATUE FOR PENALTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT CRIME> He may reduce it, he may even dismiss it. But what he cannot do is add penalties that exceed the maximum penalties for the crimes you have committed and found guilty.
if there ARE aggravating ADDITIONAL crimes, you must be proven guilty of THOSE..
there should never be a moment in any court in the United States where a judge can sentence you for crimes you have not been charged AND PROVEN guilty.
It is just that simple.
but that is not how the current DOMESTIC TERRORISM enhancement penalties are handled.
this IS A SPECIAL NUANCE that requires examination…a legal doctrine not rooted in due process.
It must be challenged, …otherwise we are facing a continuation of the abuse of the courts based on the whims of a judge to sentence anyone they declare out of a vaccum, some kind of enemy of the state.
Is this what happend to Gen Michael Flynn? Whats his name (DC judge sullivan is it?) continuing to harrass even after the DOJ dropped charges?
I had an employe….back in 2004 – 2006 somewhere therabouts called me from jail. He and his girl got into a physical altercation. His story confirmed later that he literally got smacked in the side of a head with a frying pan. Words flew after that, he claimed he did not hit in response but shoved her to the floor (I would have knowcked the **** out) and said these magic words….”I’ll kill you b*****”.
Lady called the cops, told them and he stupidly confirmed thinking it was strong words but no harm no foul. Cops shackled him, 2 weeks later he was in a PRISON with terrorist charges (language I guess is in the NDAA?) for minimum 4 years.
I can look back now and see that is when I started my journey into the abyss of WTF is happening in our world and started looking into those nagging but supressed questions I had abt 911.
Damn I wish I took the bill pill back then. All I can find these days are black pills.
Nimrata Haley is licking her chops…..
I am done with Ted Cruz. He can fakely apologize all he wants. I’m not buying it.