MSNBC’s Ari Melber confirmed this week that he has managed to get his hands on a previously unheard recording of controversial Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, connected to the infamous, deadly January 6th Capitol attack, with the network host describing the audio recording as “damning,” as it hears the MAGA sycophantic lawmaker discussing ways to potentially overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election that Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden.
In a conversation between Ted Cruz and Fox host Maria Bartiromo on Jan. 2, 2021, the senator can be heard saying to the Conservative network talking head, “I think that the country deserves to have a credible assessment of these claims and what the evidence shows and the mechanism to try to force that is denying certification on the sixth.”
“‘Forcing this reassessment,’ as he so dryly put it, of [Joe] Biden’s actual win,” Melber weighed in as he began his assessment of the damning recording, “was for Cruz one step in a larger coup plot. And that’s what the next tape I’m going play for you shows after the violence on Jan. 6th, there was, of course, the ongoing process of trying to overthrow the election Cruz early in that day right before the Capitol was breached was one of 11 senators denying. I should point out, the majority of senators didn’t go that far. That’s just one thing. Then there’s step two, which you can hear yourself tonight.”
“Who’s deciding who gets inaugurated?” Bartiromo asks in the recorded conversation.
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Cruz can be heard answering, “It would be the results of the commission and what they find, and if they found credible evidence of fraud that undermines confidence in the electoral results in any given state they would report on that.”
Ari Melber goes on to explain to viewers that Cruz believed he was speaking with Bartiromo in secret during this recorded conversation.
“He admits it,” the MSNBC host points out. “You heard the question — who decides who gets inaugurated that’s what this is all about. You have a certified winner. You have the courts having passed up any potential challenge. So, at that point, it was President-elect Biden, and Cruz answers this fake, made-up commission he and his Trump buddy were planning to create to bureaucratize a coup. That’s what they were trying to do. That was his answer. That’s how they were trying to steal the race. The references to fraud, we know, one, he didn’t believe in those we have that on tape. B. more importantly, the judges and fact-finding we have in the country didn’t find there was that kind of fraud, and then 3. That’s all just talk anyway because they’re literally trying to steal it for Trump, so all the words in the middle are just the words to get there.”
Good luck getting out of this one, Cruz.
You can watch the MSNBC segment and hear the recording of the damning conversation here:
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