The senator was for David Weiss' appointment as special counsel in the investigation of the president's son before he was against it.
requesting that U.S. Attorney David Weiss be given “special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the Hunter Biden investigation.” But now that Garland has appointed Weiss as special counsel in the investigation, Cruz is claiming that Weiss is a “wildly inappropriate” choice.
Cruz alleged that Weiss “was a U.S. Attorney hand-picked to lead this investigation who spent the last five years covering it up” but neglected to mention that he was one of the senators involved in hand-picking him. “David Weiss either was an active participant in covering up this criminality and protecting Joe Biden in engaging in an obstruction of justice — that is option one — or option two, he wasn’t the driver, he was just complicit,” Cruz said on Fox News’“He was so weak he could not stop the partisans at main justice from turning it into a political effort to protect Joe Biden. Either case, he is a wildly inappropriate person to be a special counsel.
Ted Cruz says US Attorney he requested special counsel protections for is “a widely inappropriate person to be a special counsel”
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