Ted Cruz Rails Against the ‘Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth’ Over Kash Patel: He’s a ‘Real Reformer’

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 were simply “dismayed” about having a “real reformer” at the FBI.

“I gotta say, all of the weeping and gnashing of teeth, people pulling their hair out, are the people dismayed about having a real reformer come into the FBI and clean out the corrupted partisans who sadly have burrowed into senior career positions at the FBI,” Cruz told Major Garrett on Face The Nation Sunday.

“The FBI and the Department of Justice are two institutions incredibly important to the rule of law in the United States. I revere both. And one of the most tragic consequences of four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is, both DOJ and the FBI have been politicized and weaponized, and I think Kash Patel is a very strong nominee to take on the partisan corruption in the FBI.”

Cruz then blamed former FBI Director James Comey and current Director Christopher Wray for creating a culture of corruption at the Bureau.

“Listen, if you look at James Comey and Chris Wray, there has never been a period in our nation’s history where the FBI has suffered a greater loss of respect, where more Americans doubt the fundamental integrity of the FBI,” Cruz said, continuing:

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

Cruz said that Wray will have a choice to make once President-Elect Donald Trump takes office.

“I think either he will resign or President Trump will fire him. But it’s no secret to anybody, including Chris Wray, that he is not going to continue to serve as the head of the FBI under Donald Trump.”

Watch the clip above via CBS News.