Watch: Sen Cruz Scorches NBC’s Chuck Todd During Debate Over Ukraine Helping Hillary Clinton In 2016
Senator Ted Cruz was on fire Sunday during his appearance on NBC’s show Meet The Press and he wiped the floor with Chuck Todd over the known fact that Ukraine helped the Clinton campaign in 2016. As a side note when you watch the video and shortly before Senator Cruz makes Chuck Todd look like a fool, you’ll hear the NBC staff laughing…They weren’t laughing by the end of the interview.
We previously reported that in 2017 Politico featured an article about how Ukraine helped the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election. A veteran Democratic operative named Alexandra Chalupa told Politico, She had developed a network of sources in Kiev and Washington, including investigative journalists, government officials and private intelligence operatives. While her consulting work at the DNC this past election cycle centered on mobilizing ethnic communities — including Ukrainian-Americans — she said that, when Trump’s unlikely presidential campaign began surging in late 2015, she began focusing more on the research, and expanded it to include Trump’s ties to Russia, as well. She occasionally shared her findings with officials from the DNC and Clinton’s campaign. She added, though, “they were being very protective and not speaking to the press as much as they should have. I think they were being careful because their situation was that they had to be very, very careful because they could not pick sides. It’s a political issue, and they didn’t want to get involved politically because they couldn’t.”
Just in case that wasn’t enough this is what was reported by CBS in 2017…
This was by reported by CBS in 2017
Ukraine interfering in the 2016 Election
Now @chucktodd and others in the Press along with Democrats are saying it’s an absolute lie.🤔https://t.co/IoPGpCX5xN— Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) December 7, 2019
Fast forward to Sunday Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) made an appearance on Meet The Press and Chuck Todd got more than he could handle when he brought up President Trump meddling with Ukraine.
CHUCK TODD:
Do you believe Ukraine meddled in the American election in 2016?
SEN. TED CRUZ:
I do. And I think there’s considerable evidence of that.
SEN. TED CRUZ:
Chuck, Chuck, let me point out a game that the media is playing. You know, a question that you’ve asked a number of people is you’ve said to senators, sort of aghast, “Do you believe that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered in the election?” Now, that, that, in a court of law, would be struck as a misleading question. Of course Russia interfered in our election. Nobody looking at the evidence disputes that. What the media is pretending is —
CHUCK TODD:
But the President of the United States does.
SEN. TED CRUZ:
Look, on the evidence, Russia clearly interfered in our election. But here’s the game the media is playing. Because Russia interfered, the media pretends nobody else did. Ukraine blatantly interfered in our election. The sitting ambassador from Ukraine wrote an op-ed blasting Donald Trump —
CHUCK TODD:
Do you know why —
SEN. TED CRUZ:
— during the election season. —
CHUCK TODD:
Do you know why he did that?
SEN. TED CRUZ:
— That is unusual.
CHUCK TODD:
What did Donald Trump, what did Donald Trump, as a candidate, say about Ukraine and Crimea during the election that might’ve inspired the ambassador?
SEN. TED CRUZ:
So you’re saying they had disagreements with Donald Trump —
CHUCK TODD:
No, I’m just saying —
SEN. TED CRUZ:
— and they wanted Hillary Clinton to get elected.
CHUCK TODD:
Okay, so they wrote an op-ed —
SEN. TED CRUZ:
I’ll tell you a Ukrainian parliamentarian —
CHUCK TODD:
They wrote an op-ed. That is the difference — what you’re saying is, you’re saying a pickpocket, which essentially is a Hill op-ed, compared to Bernie Madoff and Vladimir Putin. You’re trying to make — you’re trying to equal — make them both seem equal. I don’t understand that.
SEN. TED CRUZ:
Chuck, Chuck, I understand that you want to dismiss Ukrainian interference, because, A) they were trying to get Hillary Clinton elected, which is what the vast majority of the media wanted, anyway. And B) it’s inconvenient for the narrative. You know, it’s hysterical. Two years ago, there was article after article after article, in the mainstream media, about Ukrainian interference in the elections. But now, the Democrats have no evidence of a crime, no evidence of violating the law. And so suddenly, Ukrainian interference is treated as the media clutches their pearls. “Oh, my goodness. You can’t say that.” Last week, Chuck, you called Senator John Kennedy, basically, a stooge for Putin.
CHUCK TODD:
I did not. Don’t basically —
SEN. TED CRUZ:
The press needs to stop being ridiculous and —
CHUCK TODD:
Are you concerned —
SEN. TED CRUZ:
— acting like they work for Adam Schiff.