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Ted Cruz: “Manuel Noriega was leading Panama. He was corrupt. He had…”

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

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Yeah, no, no, look, there's massive hypocrisy from Democrats. But I will say that there's a long precedent that you can go back, but the closest precedent is in 1990. Manuel Noriega. Manuel Noriega was leading Panama. He was corrupt. He had been indicted also as a drug dealer. He was the de facto ruler of Panama. And George Herbert Walker Bush, Bush 41, there was again an indictment. (35:21–35:29)

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Asserts that Manuel Noriega was a corrupt leader of Panama and indicted as a drug dealer.

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