Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) vehemently defended FBI director nominee Kash Patel from accusations he’s unqualified for the position, claiming critics with ruffled feathers have been merely “dismayed” about having a “real reformer” on the FBI.

“I gotta say, the entire weeping and gnashing of tooth, people pulling their hair out, are the people dismayed about having a real reformer come into the FBI and smooth out the corrupted partisans who lamentably have burrowed into senior occupation positions at the FBI,” Cruz advised Major Garrett on Face The Nation Sunday.

“The FBI and the Department of Justice are two institutions extremely necessary to the guideline of law in the United States. I revere both. And one of the most tragic penalties of 4 years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is, each DOJ and the FBI had been politicized and weaponized, and I think Kash Patel is a very strong nominee to tackle the partisan corruption within the FBI.”

Cruz then blamed former FBI Director James Comey and present Director Christopher Wray for making a tradition of corruption at the Bureau.

“Hear, if you happen to take a look at James Comey and Chris Wray, there has by no means been a length in our nation’s history where the FBI has suffered a larger lack of recognize, the place more American citizens doubt the basic integrity of the FBI,” Cruz said, continuing:

And it’s because James Comey and Chris Wray presided over allowing the FBI to change into a partisan cudgel, to be used to focus on parents at school board meetings, for use to focus on people who selected not to take the covid vaccine, for use to focus on President Trump and to target the political opponents of Joe Biden and the White Home. It is tragic — that is not what the FBI is for. That’s not what the DOJ is for. And I gotta say, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel collectively are a very strong slate of nominees to go and repair integrity to both establishments.

Cruz stated that Wray will have a option to make as soon as President-Opt for Donald Trump takes office.

“I believe either he’s going to resign or President Trump will hearth him. Nevertheless it’s no secret to anybody, including Chris Wray, that he’s not going to proceed to serve as the top of the FBI beneath Donald Trump.”

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