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Ted Cruz: “The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to or…”

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Ted Cruz Discusses California Riots, Maryland Dad Indictment, and Biden's Auto Pen Controversy

Published June 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:59

In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them. But more importantly, he did not know anything about them. The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to or approved by Biden. Now, let's talk about pardons first. So pardons do not have to be in writing. Okay. (35:59–36:05)

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“The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles.”
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“On the same day Joe Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci, he pardoned General Milley, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then he…”
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“It's being reported now that the one pardon that Biden signed personally was his son Hunter Biden's pardon.”
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“California has descended into chaos. We're seeing riots. We're seeing cars lit on fire.”
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“We're seeing protesters waving Mexican flags, waving flags of other countries and defying assaulting law enforcement.”
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“A parade of Democrats all lining up to say, we the Democrats, we're with the rioters.”
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“Illegal alien has been brought to America to be tried for human trafficking.”
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“Joe Biden's use of the auto pen to sign legislation, use of the auto pen to issue pardons.”
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“The chaos, the violence that seems more and more commonplace in California.”
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“This is who today's left is.”
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“Except to attack these ICE officials which is leading to attacks like this.”
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“California officials doing nothing to stop it.”
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“There have been multiple arrests because you have these protestors actively aggressively trying to stop ICE from carrying out their jobs.”
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“President Trump has called up the National Guard.”
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“The mayor of Boston analogized ICE to Nazis.”
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“Democrats stand with [illegal aliens, gang members, murderers, and rapists].”
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“Democrats are not with [police officers, ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, and those enforcing the law].”
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“Democrat mayors, Democrat governors prevented law enforcement from doing their jobs during the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots.”
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“They do not want federal immigration laws enforced. She wants ICE out of the state.”
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“Every illegal alien in America, please come to California.”
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“He has been indicted for human trafficking.”
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“According to the indictment, from in or around 2016 through in or around 2025. So for nine years.”
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“Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and others... conspired to bring undocumented aliens to the United States from countries such as Guatemala, El…”
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“Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was a citizen of El Salvador, was not a United States citizen, was living in the United States, and was also a…”
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“MS.13 was a criminal enterprise engaged in, among other activities, acts and threats involving murder, extortion, narcotics trafficking…”
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“Over the course of the conspiracy, the co conspirators knowingly and unlawfully transported... thousands of undocumented aliens, many of…”
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“The fact that DOJ brought this indictment means presumably they have the evidence to prove this indictment.”
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“This is the same illegal immigrant that my colleague, Chris Van Hollen, Democrat from Maryland, flew down and had really, what was a very…”
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“These facts, the facts that prove he was a human trafficker, the facts and evidence that DOJ is gonna put on, I hope and believe the…”
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“MS-13, when they are human trafficking, they are raping women, they are raping children.”
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“In Texas, we see the atrocities [MS-13] carry out.”
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“Their position is that one Democrat congresswoman said law enforcement get the F out.”
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“No cops, no ice, no border patrol.”
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“I've got an auto pen, as far as I know. I think every member of Congress has.”
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“All of the rest of these pardons were auto penned.”
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“Joe Biden did not sign them. But more importantly, he did not know anything about them.”
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“The Constitution does not specify any particular form of a pardon.”
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“Whether it's signed or not, that's not a constitutional requirement.”
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“What President Trump alleged is Biden didn't know about this, didn't know what he was doing.”
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“In 2005, the US Department of Justice, the Office of Legal Counsel, they issued a formal opinion whether the President may sign a bill by…”
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“The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for…”
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“Article 1, Section 7, permits the President to sign a bill by directing a subordinate to affix the President's signature to it.”
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“There were multiple essentially death warrants that I signed and I would sign them.”
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“I fully expect there to be litigation questioning, looking for a statute where there is not clear indication that Biden was aware of it.”
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“If the President did not direct that his signature be affixed to it, I think there's a real argument that is not a law that is not validly…”
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“Donald Trump has access to all of the White House records that will show, did Biden make those decisions?”
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