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Ted Cruz: “Obama was president. He could have done it unilaterally and…”

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Trey's Law—Protecting the Victims of Child Sex Abuse

Published March 25, 2026 | Video Starts at 26:22

And we did. It took nearly a decade to get it done because the Barack Obama wouldn't do it. By the way, Obama was president. He could have done it unilaterally and he wouldn't do it. And it took. We ultimately got the legislation passed, but it was a decade long battle. This is one I'm confident will be faster. I don't think this will take a decade to make happen. (26:22–26:27)

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Asserts that President Obama could have unilaterally changed the military prosecution process for sexual assault but did not.

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“A child in America is sexually abused every nine minutes.”
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“One in four girls in America will be sexually abused before she turns 18.”
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“One in six boys in America will be sexually abused before he turns 18.”
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“This problem [of deep fakes] has increased more than 3,000% in the last year.”
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“More than 90% of the victims [of deep fakes] are either women or teenage girls.”
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“One in three kids will be propositioned sexually online.”
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“This week I introduced legislation in the Senate called Trey's Law.”
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“Trey's law prohibits non disclosure agreements binding children who have been victims of sexual assault.”
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“Trey's Law has been adopted [in a] number of states, including Texas.”
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“With A group of, of seven bipartisan co sponsors I've introduced [Trey's Law] at the federal level.”
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“We did a press conference today announcing Trey's law in the Senate.”
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“We are seeing NDAs demanded by abusers in exchange for compensation.”
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“The way our legal system works is typically, if a victim has a lawyer, that lawyer will usually be compensated on a contingency basis.”
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“One of the real values of Trey's Law is that when this passes...we will get this passed.”
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“By taking NDAs off the table for forcing victims of child sex abuse to not be able to disclose what happened to them, that incentive for…”
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“We drafted Trey's Law so that a victim can still insist on an NDA for the abuser.”
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“The U.S. Supreme Court has described, they've said, other than murder, rape is the most grievous harm that could be inflicted to a person.”
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“I argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court defending Louisiana's law that provided for capital punishment, the death penalty for the most…”
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“Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, five, four, struck that down.”
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“Texas's law was also struck down when Louisiana's law was struck down.”
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“I also defended Texas has a Texas sexually violent predator civil commitment law that gives the courts the ability to take a sexually…”
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“A state court of appeals had struck that law down and concluded it was unconstitutional.”
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“I argued the case in front of the Texas Supreme Court defending that law, and we won unanimously.”
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“Gillibrand and I started working on this issue more than a decade ago because she was a leader in going after sexual assault in the…”
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“The decision of whether to prosecute should not be made by the commanding officer, but rather should be made by a career military…”
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“Trey's law would not have been a law in Missouri, Elizabeth, without your leadership. It would not have been a law in Texas.”
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“You have devoted a lot of time to fighting for [Trey's Law] nationwide.”
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“A law that I authored and we passed into law was the Take It Down Act.”
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“The Take It Down Act makes it a crime to post non-consensual intimate imagery.”
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“It has already changed the law in a number of states across the country, and it's going to change the law nationally.”
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“We had probably about 50 people who came [to the press conference].”
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“We've got broad bipartisan support. We're going to get this done.”
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“There is no reason a child lacks the emotional maturity of to make a decision to bind themselves by an NDA.”
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“Every predator we take off the street stops that predator from victimizing another child, another victim.”
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“We can say we are not going to allow, as a matter of law, for children who have experienced this violence to be silenced.”
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