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Ted Cruz: “Barack Obama weaponized the Department of Justice, the FBI…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 22:52

Why? Because nobody, not a political, not, not, not careers, nobody pushed back effectively and stopped it. And we saw that started with Barack Obama. Barack Obama weaponized the Department of Justice, the FBI, the irs. and then when Trump became president. And by the way, he was partisan, slicker about it. (22:52–22:57)

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Asserts that Barack Obama used federal agencies for political purposes.

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