Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator, the big story,

what a hell of a deal. Hunter Biden cuts a massive plea deal. And the media is now saying, all right,

it's all over the five-year investigation. They called it a global investigation. This dude gets

less than a slap on the wrist. Hunter Biden. I'm angry. Most people

listening right now are furious over this. And is there any reason to have any faith in the Justice

Department after this today? Well, Ben, I think you're exactly right to be angry. This is incredibly disappointing.

Yesterday was a very sad day for the rule of law.

It was an outrageous day.

And it's worth breaking down what happened because I think it was three things simultaneously.

I think it was cronyism.

I think it was camouflage. And I think it was cronyism. I think it was camouflage.

And I think it was corruption.

Now, let me break it down because, and let's say at the outset,

what happened yesterday with the Hunter Biden indictment is exactly what this podcast has been telling listeners was going to happen

for months. We have said this over and over and over again, that yesterday was going to happen.

It was going to play out exactly as it did. Let's start with the cronyism. So hunter Biden has committed crime after crime after crime

and the Biden DOJ was in a hard position because the hunter laptop laid out the evidence of his

crimes he had videos of himself committing those crimes and so they were forced to do something. The reason it's cronyism

is if Ben Ferguson did what Hunter Biden did. If I did what Hunter Biden did, if anyone not

named Biden did it, if his name was Hunter Smith, he'd be doing hard time. He would be going to

jail. The end result of this plea deal is that Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to two counts of willful

failure to pay tax because he failed to pay about $1.2 million on his 2017 and 2018 taxes.

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