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Ted Cruz: “Many of those partisans, they burrowed into senior career…”

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

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And ultimately, you know, you look at Eric Holder, who was Attorney general, described himself as Barack Obama's wingman, and he ended up being held in contempt of Congress, which was stunning. But it began during the Obama administration when Trump became president. Many of those partisans, they burrowed into senior career positions at the agency. And for four years of the first Trump term, they waged war on Donald Trump from within the agency, trying to overturn the duly elected president, trying to overturn an election. (19:11–19:17)

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Asserts that partisans took senior career positions in agencies during Trump's presidency.

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