Ted Cruz: “It was the first time in the history of the United States…”

“He did so for a very explicit reason because he wanted to prevent the American people from re electing him. It was an effort directly to subvert democracy. It was the first time in the history of the United States that a president or former president has been indicted. Jack Smith did it twice and then he also teamed up with his rogue Democrat local prosecutors to do it two more times.” (18:18–18:23)

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