{"id":1709360,"date":"2022-10-24T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709360"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:19:36","slug":"give-me-the-target-ted-cruz-demands-receipts-when-sunny-hostin-accuses-barr-of-weaponizing-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/give-me-the-target-ted-cruz-demands-receipts-when-sunny-hostin-accuses-barr-of-weaponizing-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Give Me The Target\u2019: Ted Cruz Demands Receipts When Sunny Hostin Accuses Barr Of Weaponizing DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgive-me-the-target-ted-cruz-demands-receipts-when-sunny-hostin-accuses-barr-of-weaponizing-doj%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ted-cruz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-TX) demanded receipts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sunny-hostin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunny Hostin<\/a> when she claimed on \u201cThe View\u201d that former Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/william-barr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Barr<\/a> was guilty of politicizing and weaponizing the United States Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz joined the regular co-hosts for Monday\u2019s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, and he argued that it was President Joe Biden\u2019s Attorney General Merrick Garland who had turned the DOJ into a political weapon, using it to treat parents at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/national-school-board-association-at-risk-of-total-collapse-following-letter-comparing-parents-to-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school board meetings<\/a> like domestic terrorists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cruz embarrasses Sunny for her LAZY attack on AG Bill Barr.&#8221;You&#8217;ve said a name. What did Bill Barr do? Give me the target who was persecuted.&#8221; She couldn&#8217;t.<br \/>He called out AG Garland for targeting parents and Sunny showed she didn&#8217;t read his book, asking if he wrote about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ydHd1YtPKf\">pic.twitter.com\/ydHd1YtPKf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1584576747470815238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican host Ana Navarro criticized Cruz for his support of former President Donald Trump, arguing that his responsibility was to the U.S. Constitution and the democratic process over any one person.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz agreed \u2014 and immediately turned her argument on its head, arguing that Democrats were the ones who were undermining the Constitution by using the FBI and Justice Department to target political opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Justice and the FBI have been turned into partisan weapons to attack the political opponents of the Biden administration,\u201d he explained, prompting one of the show\u2019s hosts to choke and cough.<\/p>\n<p>Whoopi Goldberg tried to push back, claiming that it was really Trump who had outright ignored the Justice Department and the way things were supposed to work. \u201cYou are talking about we corrupted it, you guys don\u2019t pay any attention to it,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoopi, that\u2019s a great talking point \u2014\u201d Cruz replied, causing Goldberg to bristle and claim that she didn\u2019t \u201cdo\u201d talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz went on to argue that the move to subpoena Trump had been primarily political and that no one actually expected him to testify under oath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBill Barr,\u201d Hostin jumped in next, claiming without presenting any actual evidence that the former AG had weaponized the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz called her out, saying, \u201cYou\u2019ve said a name. What did Bill Barr do? If he weaponized \u2014 give me the target who was persecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pivoted again, quickly laying out the evidence against Biden\u2019s AG Garland: \u201cBecause I can tell you who the Democrats \u2014 Merrick Garland directed the FBI to go after moms and dads who go to school boards and to treat them as domestic terrorists using the Patriot Act. That is fundamentally wrong \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you write about that in your book?\u201d Hostin challenged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I did,\u201d Cruz replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) demanded receipts from Sunny Hostin when she claimed on \u201cThe View\u201d that former Attorney General William Barr was guilty of politicizing and weaponizing the United States Justice Department. Cruz joined the regular co-hosts for Monday\u2019s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, and he argued that it was President Joe Biden\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}