My mind goes back again to that very strange primary day in Indiana, when the former president* accused the Tailgunner’s actual father of being chummy with Lee Harvey Oswald. Imagine what Eastman will say to save his own sorry-ass hide.
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“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.”Īnd that’s from Cruz’s mentor and professional father. “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 in a statement to The Post. Luttig told The Post that he believes that Cruz - who once said that Luttig was “like a father to me” - played a paramount role in the events leading to Jan. Cruz’s proposal ran on a parallel track to Eastman’s memos. 6 committee’s investigators have recently focused on Eastman’s efforts to pressure Pence to declare Trump the winner, but there has been little public notice that Cruz and Eastman have known each other since they clerked together 27 years ago for then-U.S. Increasingly, Eastman seems to be key to a great deal about the events running up to January 6, and to what is at the very least the mutuality of interest between the people who smeared excrement on the Capitol walls and the people who merely sought to deface the Constitution in a symbolic, but infinitely more important, way. The committee responded earlier this month, arguing that there is a legal exception allowing the disclosure of communications regarding ongoing or future crimes. Eastman was trying to withhold documents from the committee on the basis of an attorney-client privilege claim between him and the former president. From the AP (via ): "Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," Carter wrote in the ruling submitted in the federal Central District of California. The courts also seem to be on that same trail. And it’s clear that the special committee looking into the violent events of that day has swung its attention from the streets to the suites. Their goals were identical: to keep El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago in power by any means necessary. The story is clearly another salvo across the bows of the various congressional enablers who were the respectable front for the effort to overturn the 2020 election, an effort that included helping to inspire the violent vandals who took over the Capitol on January 6. Ten other senators backed his proposal, which Cruz continued to advocate on the day rioters attacked the Capitol. 6 in favor of a 10-day “audit” - thus potentially enabling GOP state legislatures to overturn the result. He proposed objecting to the results in six swing states and delaying accepting the electoral college results on Jan. As Eastman outlined a scenario in which Vice President Mike Pence could deny certifying Biden’s election, Cruz crafted a complementary plan in the Senate. I decline to be sympathetic because, hey, Ted Cruz, right? I do permit myself the occasional sad guffaw at what an obsequious shambles he’s made of himself. The more I ponder the complete moral and ethical dissolution of Tailgunner Ted Cruz, the more vividly I hear the voice of a pudgy orange Palpatine, whispering to him about the power and splendor that await him if he embraces The Dark Side. As Cruz went to extraordinary lengths to court Trump’s base and lay the groundwork for his own potential 2024 presidential bid, he also alienated close allies and longtime friends who accused him of abandoning his principles.
6, 2021, shows just how deeply he was involved, working directly with Trump to concoct a plan that came closer than widely realized to keeping him in power. An examination by The Washington Post of Cruz’s actions between Election Day and Jan. “Sure, I’d be happy to” if the court granted a hearing, Cruz said he responded…. “Would you be willing to argue the case?” Trump asked Cruz, as the senator later recalled it. And while we’re on the subject of senatorial sellouts…ahem.įrom the Washington Post : A lawsuit had just been filed at the Supreme Court designed to overturn the election Trump had lost, and the president wanted help from the Texas Republican.
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