LORDY: Leaked Ted Cruz tape reveals “Step 2” of January 6th plot

LORDY: Leaked Ted Cruz tape reveals "Step 2" of January 6th plot

Ted just admitted it.

A recording of a conversation between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX via Donald Trump’s undercarriage), former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, and Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo from January 2, 2021, was shared publicly on Tuesday.

First aired by MSNBC’s Ari Melber, the tape was recorded just four days before Trump incited his base to attack the Capitol.

Cruz, who was also the first Senator to object to the Electoral College results that gave Joe Biden the W, lays out a plan that doesn’t sound improvised at all.

They had months to plot after losing in November 2020, which is why Cruz delivers his ideas so smarmily and self-confidently.

Trump’s subhuman toilet/bidet details his own plan to “create an electoral commission” which would be comprised of his fellow compromised co-conspirators.

Cruz’s crooked crew would “assess the false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election” in the hopes of finding any actual fraud so Trump wouldn’t release whatever blackmail he has on all of them.

Bartiromo is heard asking Cruz who would decide which candidate would be inaugurated.

Cruz replies that if the commission “found credible evidence of fraud that undermines confidence in the electoral results in any given state they would report on that.”

Cruz also cites the electoral commission created in 1876 to investigate potential voter fraud in the Hayes-Tilden election.

Because that’s applicable in 2021, according to Harvard Law’s worst graduate.

“You need an adjudicatory body with fact-finding and investigative authority to consider the facts to examine the record and to make determinations — that’s how they did it in 1877,” Cruz told Grossberg and Bartiromo.

Translated into modern English: “Let’s stop the vote and melt with Trump.”

Cruz bragged that he had already gathered 11 senators to object to the electoral certification, which would trigger “a 10-day audit.”

“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,” Cruz says on the tape.

A “credible assessment” made by the very same people who are most invested in keeping Trump in the White House?

Seems bad, Ted.

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The comments Cruz makes to Grossberg and the MAGA Money Dummy are similar to public statements he had made, but there are notable exceptions.

Cruz repeated those hot garbage takes on the Senate floor shortly before the MAGA mob attacked Congress on January 6th, but he never mentioned the Compromise of 1877.

However, Cruz and his team tried to turn a scandal into a semantics argument, an overly used MAGA distraction tactic that moves the goalposts away from the topic at hand.

Ted’s team was out on Twitter on Wednesday trying to tell us we didn’t hear what he told Grossberg and the MAGA Money Dummy.

Hear it all for yourself, below.

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