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Ted Cruz: “The old government of El Salvador, the leftists, made a…”

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

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On the Ground with President Bukele in El Salvador plus Cracker Barrel Surrenders

Published | Video Starts at 10:14

If you killed nine, you're not in yet. You're not bad enough. You only killed nine, you're still an amateur. And it was fascinating, like listening to the judge describe it. He described how The old government of El Salvador, the leftists, made a decision to essentially hand government over to the cartels. to disempower the police, to disempower the judiciary, to disempower the government from enforcing law and order. And he said, look, there was a government and the government was the gangs. (10:14–10:32)

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Asserts that the previous government of El Salvador ceded control to the cartels.

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