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Ted Cruz: “The FBI, when it raided Mar-a-Lago, searched Melania's…”

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Published January 24, 2026 | Video Starts at 16:36

Jim Jordan, your friend and mine, he's been a guest on the Verdict podcast before. Jim Jordan chaired the hearing. He, he opened the hearing by pointed out that The FBI, when it raided Mar-a-Lago, searched Melania's closet. because apparently her, her clothing and underwear is a matter of national security, according to Jack Smith and the Biden doj. (16:36–16:48)

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Asserts that the FBI searched Melania Trump's closet during the Mar-a-Lago raid.

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“Venezuela, as we've talked about, has the highest proven reserves of oil in the world.”
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“It was the first time in the history of the United States that a president or former president has been indicted.”
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“He also subpoenaed the phone records of roughly 20% of the Republicans in the Senate.”
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“He targeted over 400 Republicans.”
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“The murder rates across the United States decreased nationwide roughly 20%.”
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“More than 2,000 kilos of fentanyl seized. That's up 31%. That's enough to kill 130 million Americans.”
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“We've seen the price of oil drop dramatically from 100 bucks a barrel to down just around 60 bucks a barrel.”
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“That has weakened almost every bad guy in the world. That is weakened Russia, that is weakened Iran, that is weakened Venezuela.”
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“Oil and gas and energy are powerful weapons against our enemies and, and to buttress America.”
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“Price of oil so dramatically that you devastate US producers.”
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“At down around 60, $70 a barrel, you see what we've got now, which is gas prices at about 2, 3 bucks a gallon.”
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“Under Biden, when we had hundred dollar oil, you were seeing 4, 5, 6, $7 a gallon of gasoline.”
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“If you see oil prices plummet, so let's say they drop from the 60s down to say the 40s or below.”
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“You'll see bankruptcy bankruptcies throughout the Permian basin of the small producers.”
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“What it does is it weakens America's ability to produce oil and makes us more dependent on foreign adversaries.”
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“Venezuela right now is producing about a million barrels a day, which is a fraction of what their capacity is.”
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“The response was 10 years. That it doesn't happen over like it would. Yeah, tens of billions of dollars of investment and perhaps north of…”
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“The Gulf coast refineries could almost overnight refine an additional 250,000 barrels of the heavy crude from Venezuela.”
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“The Cuban regime has been a communist dictatorship since 1959.”
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“Cuba was effectively a satellite state of the Soviet Union.”
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“Cuba was the number one sugar producer in all of Latin America.”
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“Venezuela is no longer sending oil and no longer sending money to Cuba.”
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“The Cuban economy is in freefall, just like the Iranian economy is in free fall.”
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“Mexico is still sending oil to Cuba.”
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“Jack Smith was the point of the spear on the greatest abuse of power we have seen in modern times.”
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“What Jack Smith did was orders of magnitude worse than what the Nixon administration did during Watergate.”
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“Jack Smith did it twice.”
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“It searched Baron Trump's bedroom.”
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“In 2025, approximately 5,912 murders were recorded in the U.S.”
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“In 2024, 7,369 murders were recorded.”
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“Chicago, the murder rate dropped 30%.”
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“New York City, the murder rate dropped 20%.”
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“Birmingham, Alabama, it dropped 49%.”
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“Albuquerque, New Mexico, it dropped 32%.”
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“Baltimore, Maryland, it dropped 31%.”
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“Atlanta, Georgia, 26%.”
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“Oakland, California, 33%.”
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“Washington, D.C. where President Trump deployed the National Guard, 31%.”
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“An 18% drop in robberies.”
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“An 8% drop in aggravated assaults.”
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“Axios wrote the first story on this, and they talk about the murder rate has fallen.”
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“FBI Director Kash Patel of what has happened.”
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“210%. A total of 1,800 gangs and criminal enterprises disrupted.”
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“There have also been more than 6,000 child victims located. That's an increase of 22%.”
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“There have been more than 1,700 child predators arrested. That's an increase of 10%.”
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“There have been more than 300 human traffickers arrested. That's up 15%.”
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“There's a 35% increase in espionage arrests.”
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“Four of the FBI's top 10 most wanted fugitives were captured.”
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“In one year, they captured as many on the top 10 list as Biden did in all four years.”
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