Texas Senator Ted Cruz is being ridiculed for defending former Vice President Mike Pence’s reported possession of classified documents while at the same time trashing President Joe Biden for doing the same thing.
According to multiple reports, several classified documents were been found at the former vice president’s home last week.
During an appearance on the Fox Business show Kudlow, Cruz dismissed Pence’s case as “totally innocent” while suggesting that President Biden may be guilty of “major crimes” by keeping the documents and demanding that the FBI search the properties of his son Hunter to find more.
“The FBI needs to search the residences of Hunter Biden and any business offices of Hunter Biden to determine if there are classified materials there,” Cruz said.
“If these classified materials, in particular, implicate Burisma, Ukraine, communist China, payments going to Hunter Biden or Joe Biden’s brother or the Biden family,” he continued. “Then this shifts from a political problem to a very serious problem of criminal liability and major crimes.”
Cruz then argued that Pence and Biden possessing classified documents after serving as vice president were “very different,” saying that it was too “early” to pass similar judgement on the former vice president.
“The Mike Pence story, it’s still early,” Cruz said. “You know, Mike Pence … he is a good friend, he’s a good man. He’s explained where these came from … That was a mistake, but there’s no reason to think this was anything but inadvertent.”
“That is very different from what Joe Biden has done,” he added. “Biden has given zero explanation how these classified documents got there. And in particular, he has given no explanation as to how he has documents from his time in the Senate.”
Naturally, Cruz was quickly called out for the comments on social media, with some calling the Texas Republican a “shameless hypocrite.”
Check some of the responses below.
TED CRUZ: The FBI needs to search the University of Delaware and Hunter Biden's home and business addresses
LARRY KUDLOW: What about Pence, a friend of both of ours, who found classified documents in his home?
CRUZ: Oh look, Mike Pence has explained where these came from pic.twitter.com/VZwobf8RZl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 24, 2023
Shameless hypocrisy from Ted Cruz? You’re kidding me.
— bob clendenin 🇺🇸 (@bobclendenin) January 25, 2023
Can I just say again that Ted Cruz sucks? He doesn’t have the honesty, the decency nor the fair mindedness to simply say “It was wrong for Biden to have classified docs at home, and it was wrong for Pence to have classified docs at home” and leave it at that. https://t.co/nqdWQ5SCzm
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 24, 2023
What else did we expect from @tedcruz pic.twitter.com/27bgDrQe9y
— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) January 24, 2023
It’s no longer news that Ted Cruz is numb to shame and hypocrisy.
— 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 (@ChidiNwatu) January 24, 2023
The Republican men all have a hard on for Hunter.
— catlover (@catlove71040608) January 25, 2023
The Hypocrisy is off the chainnnn😅😅
— Prince Akeem (@21princeakeem) January 25, 2023
