Verdict with Ted Cruz: The DNC is Broke-the DSA is Not, Fauci Shuts Up & Spain gets Invaded Week In Review

You know, it goes on to say, trusted Mr. Martin, the head of the DNC, was sapped by his handling of a long-promised autopsy of the 2024 election. Late last year, he said he would not release the document, but then his criticism mounted, he released an incomplete draft that featured searing annotations from the DNC that undermined the report. Now, Mr. Martin is both paralyzed by the idea of leaks and surrounded by them. during a May meeting with the full staff of the DNC, days after the draft's autopsy's release, he admitted that times were tough, and he chided his team for revealing the reporters what was happening inside party headquarters. Quote, it pisses me off when I see leaks out of this building. No more. Mr. Martin said he saw a lot of down faces and people hanging their heads. Keep your heads up. Keep a smile on. My success is your success. So the weaker I am, the weaker all of you are. Well, what kind of manager is this fellow? Let me tell you. Well, this is clearly someone who knows how to watch his pennies. Here's another quote from the New York Times article. The single biggest expense of the Martin era. What do you think that was, Ben? I'm going to go with private jets just because I know how much they love those private jets to the DNC. I have every certainty of the private jet bill is massive, but that was not the single biggest expenditure. The single biggest expenditure was $7.3 million. to buy the remnants of Kamala Harris' campaign list from her failed 2024 bid. Ms. Harris' political action committee then used that money to cover additional remaining deaths. So that's his biggest expenditure is bailing out Kamala Harris' bankrupt campaign rather than actually trying to win elections going forward. And here's a little more about his very gentle experience management style. Another paragraph from the New York Times. Mr. Martin's fraying nerves are showing in a peak of frustration in early July. He threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide while upbraiding the person. The phone tossing incident resulted in a formal complaint to the DNC's Human Resources Department. The fallout from the phone throwing episode was described by half a dozen people familiar with the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal party matters. None of them witnessed the account, and there was some dispute over how aggressively the phone was tossed. Mr. Martin was said to have thrown the phone at the desk rather than the aid. Oh, there you go. That makes it better. There you go. You know what? Somehow I've managed to live 55 years on planet Earth to work in a bunch of different offices, to work with a lot of people, to have a lot of people working for me. I've magically managed to refrain from throwing a phone at anybody. Or any desk. Or any desk. I've got to say it hasn't been difficult.

I think the only thing I've ever thrown at anyone who works for me is I have thrown a Nerf basketball. So if that counts, I'll plead guilty to that. But when it comes to like not throwing hard metal objects at your employees, that does not take massive restraint. Yeah. I guess it doesn't boost morale. It's incredible. That is the Democratic Party. Although I do need to come clean. Although I haven't thrown anything at one young Benjamin Netanyahu. This is true. You have broken bones. I have, in fact, broken his finger. So maybe it's even. It's still crooked, folks. There it is. You see the crookedness there, folks? You see, I just want everybody watching to see. That is not straight anymore. That is a Ted Cruz broken bone right there. I just want to be clear about that. Look, it's important to acknowledge that you have this, you know, big strapping Division I college athlete, this like studly. And if you don't know how studly he is, give Ben a minute. He'll tell you how studly he is. as he's very proud of being a Division I college athlete. And he's playing hoops with little old me, a college debater. And I'm just saying the consequence of playing hoops is bones are broken. When you're losing, Ted doesn't play fair. That's what I learned from that. When you're losing, Ted doesn't play fair. And this is what happens. It's crooked for life. So you're admitting to our listeners. that not only did your finger get broken, but you also lost. That's good. I'm glad you were on the record. I don't think so. You were losing when the finger was broken. No, no. I think the finger lies. Do you want to know what I keep on my desk? This is a true story. So we were in Austin, we were playing the game. This is the remnants of the tape that is still left that I used to tape said finger together, the crooked finger right there, and keep playing an entire another game. So I kept it as a, I just, you know, that's just, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's well, Ben, just, Ben, just don't ever say I never gave you anything. Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Your faith runs deep, deeper than the words on the page, and somewhere in the back of your heart you've always known. There was a place where it would all make sense in a way nothing else ever could. That place is Israel, where the Bible isn't history. It's the ground beneath your feet, where the Sea of Galilee still shimmers at dawn, and the streets of Jerusalem still echo with a story that changed the world. Believers who go, come home. Different, more grounded, more certain, more alive in their faith than they have ever been. That's what Israel does. I am, Israel. Come experience the journey your faith was made for. Start planning your trip today. Follow, Visit Israel on social media. That's Visit Israel on Facebook and Instagram.

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once it became irrefutable that the school's shutdowns were a travesty, a disaster. Anthony Fauci's tried to back away and say, oh, I didn't ask for the schools to be shut down. Well, a number of his private diary entries had been released. Here's what he wrote on March 15th, 2020. So this is pretty early in the COVID pandemic. He writes, quote, big day. It's written in red letters. I spoke with Bill de Blasio, Mayor New York City, and convinced him, based on what I was saying publicly in my conversations tonight, to close the New York City schools, he had already decided based on what I was saying on TV. That's what he said, his private notes in March. Amazing. By the way, he said the same thing. Quote, I had a similar call with Ann O'Leary, the chief of staff of Governor Gavin Newsom in California. and said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and the restaurants. Now, seven months later, October 16th, 2020, ABC News is interviewing Anthony Fauci and he denies he had any role in the lockdowns. He says, quote, Let's go back and look at the transcript. We said we should try as best as possible we possibly can to keep the children in schools. Nobody plays that clip. They always come back and say Anthony Fauci was responsible for shutting schools down. I had nothing to do with it. Now, there's a technical word for that. That's called a lie. Also in 2022, he told the Hill that he, quote, didn't recommend locking anything down. Well, his own private... Diary refutes that. By the way, January 2024, he said, quote, when he was testifying the House of Representatives, I did not close the schools. Anthony Fauci is dishonest. And the diary is unequivocal. Five days later, here's what Anthony Fauci's diary says. Quote, also had a phone call with Mayor de Blasio. who wants to go to shelter in place for the entire city, is asking my advice since Andrew Cuomo is pushing back. I advise de Blasio to go ahead and do it. I will try to speak with Andrew Cuomo. So he's saying shut everything down. By the way, Anthony Fauci also in March of 2020, describes President Trump as incorrigible. This is this pattern and the rest of these diary entries are stunning. They reveal a megalomaniac. All right. Here's another component that's fairly stunning. You remember Anthony Fauci laid out at great length that the source of COVID was not the Wuhan Institute for Virology. Yeah, so that was one of the big ones. And he got angry on TV when it was brought up. It was not the Chinese government. It was not any of that. It was instead the wet market in China that occurred organically from like bat soup in the wet market that just jumped from animals. So here is what he wrote in January of 2020. So right at the outset. He wrote the following. It now appears using epidata and genomic data.

that the first affection was in early December and not connected to the market. The infections spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that they were dealing with a new infection and that gave the virus time to establish itself in multi-generational sustained spread. Remember, early on, the Chinese were saying that there is no human-to-human transmission. and that all the original 27 cases were from the market. Now we know the market was not the source. It was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans. I want to repeat that sentence. Now we know the market was not the source. It was the amplifier. This was January of 2020, and Anthony Fauci repeatedly lied about this over and over again. And by the way, in March and April of 2020, for those who are longtime listeners to verdict, we have a lot of new listeners to verdict. Yeah. But in March and April of 2020, go back and listen to. I did two episodes on verdict. where we laid out the evidence early in COVID, that the weight of the evidence was the COVID virus came from the Wuhan Institute from Virology where they were studying coronaviruses derived from bats and that it escaped. I think it was likely an accidental lab leak. I think they were engaged in research, gain of function research where they took existing viruses. They made them more dangerous. They more transmissible, more targeted to humans. I think they were studying them. And then they screwed up. They had lacks, they had lousy biosecurity measures. And I think a doctor or a researcher or someone got the disease, walked out and spread it to someone else and spread it to someone else, spread it to someone else. That is the most likely scenario. By the way, multiple U.S. government agencies now concur with that assessment. Anthony Fauci knew that. at the outset. And he lied. It was straight out lying and it was profoundly harmful. You look at what we're seeing now in these notes. I love the transparency. There's some that are mad that this put out saying, well, people aren't going to take accurate notes in the future. They think they're going to be outed. In this scenario, you should not be afraid of your notes unless you are lying and manipulating and covering up. Yeah, don't lie. Don't lie. Don't lie. Like they appear like, well, don't you want transparency? I'm like, of course. Like, well, if you out these types of notes, you're never going to get transparency again. I'm like, no, just don't be a pathological liar to the American people. And what we saw in these notes was on the biggest issues of COVID. And I think this is the core reason why I want to wrap it up and get your reaction to it. Now I understand why he needed a pardon, preemptive pardon, because I think it's abundantly clear. He was lying and knew he was lying. And quoting his own words.

He was lying under oath to you guys who were questioning him in Congress. And by the way, I also believe Anthony Fauci funded the gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute Virology. He was covering his own rear end because his decision to fund reckless research was a direct cause, I believe, of the pandemic. Understand, this is not a new phenomenon for Anthony Fauci. I want to read an entry from his diary from 2013, so long before COVID happened. January 14, 2013. HHS turned me down on requests from CNN Wolf Blitzer and Soledat O'Brien. I asked John Burk how to call up Bill Hall and find out what the heck is going on and what the reason for all of this is. John told me that CDC complaining to Bill Hall and HHS that I was getting all of the publicity on an issue, influenza tracking, that they considered was their issue. I do not know who at CDC did this. It could be anyone from Tom Frieden, I doubt this, to more likely Tom Skinner, CDCPR person. In any event, it has nothing to do with my use of the word epidemic on Wolf Blitzer Show. And everything to do with pure jealousy that I am a rock star stealing their thunder. shame on the CDC so this is 2013 yeah this man's own personal assessment i want to read that sentence again it has everything to do with pure jealousy that I am a quote unquote rock star stealing their thunder. This is someone who's a narcissist who just wants to be on TV. So when we're in the middle of a pandemic, we're in the middle of a crisis. What did he wanted to do? He wanted to be on TV as the savior as the solution. And he was willing to lie. He knew early on he knew that the wet market is not where this virus came from. And yet he lied about that deliberately. And I think he did so again to cover his own culpability. And when it came to lockdowns, he repeatedly urged and advocated locking down schools, locking down small businesses, locking down churches, destroying people's livelihoods, destroying kids. There were tens of millions of kids in America who did not go to school for more than a year. because of these lockdowns. And ruin their education moving forward. And by the way, the data show that learning loss will be within the rest of their lives. When they're 80, they will still suffer the consequences. And he's born no consequences for his own recklessness. This was. egomaniacal, it was reckless, and it was wrong. As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

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And if you remember Del Rio, which is a town in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, it's a town of about 30,000 people. And in one day, more than 10,000 Haitian illegal immigrants crossed the Rio Grande, crossed into the United States, into the small town of Del Rio. It was an absolute invasion. I was there. I was there. In fact, I filmed it and put out the video of what was happening in Del Rio. You had thousands upon thousands of Haitians under a bridge, under a giant overpass. And it looked like... It looked like the third world, it was suddenly in America. It looked like you were in Haiti. They were just basically shanty towns. Yeah. And it was designed by the Biden administration and the drug cartels. The Mexican cartels made the decision to send the Haitians to the southern border to Del Rio and to send them over an invasion. And the Democrats welcomed them. Well, the same thing is happening in Spain. And it is horrifying. And I say this without hyperbole. I think we are witnessing civilizational suicide in Europe. I agree. They are destroying the great nations of Europe. And understand this is not happening accidentally. It's just like what happened in Texas for the four years of the Biden administration, where the invasion was by design, the left hates the West. Yep. This is what Zohran Mamdani and the other communists wants. This is what the DSA wants. When they say open borders, when they say abolish ice, they want this invasion for the same purpose. It's the same reason the socialists in Spain, who unfortunately are in control of that government, they want to destroy Spanish civilization. and tragically, these American leftists want to destroy American civilization. You know, I was talking about this earlier today, and I want to get your take on this, but one of the things I said was I think part of the reason why we're witnessing these types of invasions, and really it's happening not just in Spain, but we're seeing massive illegal immigration numbers. all throughout Europe that have spiked. And as you described it, I think it's spot on that we're watching the crumbling of civilization and actually having pride in a nation, right? You just get rid of the nation. It's kumbayaism of the left and the communes and the socialists. But I also think part of why this is happening right now in Europe is Donald Trump. One re-election got back to the White House by saying, I'm going to secure the southern border, and I'm going to stop the invasion that you're witnessing on TV, the videos that you took. I still go back to that moment where I think we saw the tide change, and that was when the federal government under the Biden administration used that forklift and raised up that bobwire in Texas, and people came flooding into America. That, for me, was a picture is worth right, a thousand words, however you want to describe it.

But when you can't come to America anymore, the way that you were able to, by the millions and millions, under the Biden and the Obama administration combined in the leftist policies, where are you going to go next? Europe. Europe would be your next stop. And now they're getting what would have a lot of people that probably would have tried to keep coming to America if the Democrats were in charge. Well, and this is also the Islamization of Europe. These illegal immigrants that are invading the country, they are essentially entirely Muslim. And you're saying, you know, there was a meme online that showed President Trump flying in Air Force One and looking out the window and saying, My goodness, Pakistan is just horrible what's happening there. And an aide stops and says, I'm Mr. President. That's London. Yeah. Like, Europe is deliberately, and we're seeing this throughout Europe, has allowed the entire continent to face an invasion from the Middle East, faced an invasion from Africa. And it has changed the underlying character of the continent. And you're seeing the consequences. Look, I think Europe is foreshadowing. where the United States will go if we don't stop this. Amen. And it's about 10 years ahead of us. So in some ways you can look to Spain, and it's like you're looking at a crystal ball. You can see, and by the way, it'll happen faster than 10 years, if God forbid Elizabeth Warren or Gavin Newsom or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes president. The same invasion we're seeing in Spain, the same invasion that we saw under Joe Biden will happen again. And the reason is the same, because the left, they want these illegal immigrants to destroy Western civilization, to destroy American civilization, to tear down the Constitution, the foundations of free enterprise, the foundations of rule of law. And, you know, I have to wonder what a typical Spanish citizen is thinking right now. And listen, what I fear is that what they might be thinking is the same thing. that the idiot voters who voted for Zohran Mamdani and the other communists in America are thinking, which is a great thing. This is a wonderful thing. I don't know if they're looking away and just averting their eyes, or if they think, wonderful, what a blessing. But I'll tell you one thing that is deeply chilling about these images, the videos that are coming up, the videos I saw there was not a single woman.

Or it's not a single child. Yeah. These are all military age men. They're men from about 15 to about 40. Yeah. And they're coming one after the other, after the other, after the other. And by the way, like one fellow on Twitter put out a very good question. He said, what is the purpose of having an army if thousands of foreign invaders? can just cross your border and invade your country because that is what is happening. And by the way, no vetting. Let's be clear. There was a really interesting video that got released and showed the government opening up a gate. and allowing men, there was no women or children. Hundreds and hundreds were rushing. I don't know how deep it was. I mean, it could be thousands and thousands. No one is vetting if these are terrorists, if they're drug cartel members, if they're setting up human traps. And we know they are. We know that they're a terrorist among them. We know that there are cartel members and criminals and murderers and rapists. We know that because that's what happened in America. It's what's happening there, too, and it is part of the left's design. As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. Don't forget to download my podcast, and you can listen to my podcast. Every other day, you're not listening to Verdict or each day when you listen to verdict afterwards. I'd love to have you as a listener to, again, the Ben Ferguson podcast, and we will see you back here on Monday morning.