Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was on fire on Tuesday as he grilled Joe Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
This may just be one of the most effective cross-examinations over how bad the administration has been on Iran that you're ever going to see, and how they've helped our enemies while hurting our allies. He really drops the hammer on him at the end.
🚨WATCH: Senator Cruz RIPS Secretary of State Blinken for catastrophic foreign policy failures of Biden administration🚨 pic.twitter.com/g8hkgThS3u
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 21, 2024
"Mr. Secretary, you have presided over the worst foreign policy disaster of modern times," Cruz began. "When Joe Biden became president, he inherited peace and prosperity in the world. We now have two simultaneous wars waging: the worst war in Europe since World War II, and the worst war in the Middle East in 50 years. Both, I believe, were caused by this administration's consistent weakness."
"Your foreign policy is precisely backwards from what a rational American foreign policy should be to our friends and allies. This administration has consistently undermined, weakened and attacked them," he added. "And to our enemies, this administration has shown constant appeasement and indeed has flowed billions of dollars to the enemies of America who want to kill us."
Cruz grilled Blinken over reports that they offered Israel intel on Hamas leaders if Israel didn't move into Rafah. Cruz got Blinken to deny that on the record. Let's see what now comes out after that.
But he wasn't done yet. Blinken claimed that no one had done more to make sure Israel had what they needed to defend themselves from Hamas than Joe Biden. Cruz then went after him over how they had cut off weapons to Israel.
Then he really went into overdrive over how their "sanctions" had failed against Iran, explaining how much Iranian oil production/sales from 300,000 barrels a day to 2 million a day, enriching Iran by $80 billion, and Iran is funneling money straight to Hamas.
"In a very real sense, this administration, you and President Biden, funded the Oct. 7 attacks by flowing $100 billion to a homicidal, genocidal regime that funded those attacks," he added.
Blinken said that was a "disgraceful" statement. Cruz asked, "Why?"
Blinken claimed they had "gone at Iran" to which Cruz responded well then why had their oil sales increased to 2 million barrels a day?
Blinken's face at the end was something to see as he was left just twisting not knowing what to do.
"You've funded our enemies and you undermine our friends," Cruz said. "And the world is much much more dangerous as result and Americans are in much greater jeopardy because of it."
Blinken protested saying we weren't "alone" anymore.
Cruz dropped him with a final withering remark, "Remember the Abraham Accords?"
That was a reminder of how we had the area in greater peace under former President Donald Trump and now it's in flames because of Joe Biden.
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