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Why Historic Symbols Could Also Mean Violence
Senator Ted Cruz grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray about an FBI Internal Document — It’s Just a Performance
“Our law enforcement has been weaponized and politicized, rather than rather than remaining apolitical as it has been for the for the history of our country,” Ted Cruz said to FBI Director Christopher Wray on August 4th. The fact the FBI didn’t exist for even half of the country’s history doesn’t matter to the Junior Senator from Texas. What matters is that he can use any excuse to find ways to make far-right extremists hapless victims in the eyes of the federal government.
Even before the Feds raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on behalf of the United States National Archives on August 8th, the FBI have become the boogeymen to far-right politicians and Trump supporters since Robert Mueller investigated their God Emperor. “In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you, I’m just in the way,” Trump tweeted in December 2019. Trump used victimhood and fear as a way of agitating his followers — including militia groups.
Senator Cruz, carrying out his loyalty to Trump, interrogated Director Wray because on August 2nd, the far-right “gotcha” activist group Project Veritas, released a leaked document titled “Militia Violent…
