Democrats "hate democracy" and are "deathly afraid" that voters will elect former President Donald Trump to return to the White House, so they are pushing for him to be indicted on various charges to keep that from happening, Sen. Ted Cruz tells Newsmax.
"They are trying to use the machinery of law enforcement to prosecute him," the Texas Republican said on Newsmax's "Eric Bolling The Balance" on Wednesday night. "I think these indictments are a disgrace."
Trump last week said he got a letter from special counsel Jack Smith to inform him that he is the target of the federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 events at the Capitol.
The letter comes after Trump was charged and pleaded not guilty in June to a 37-count federal indictment in connection with his handling of presidential documents.
Trump also pleaded not guilty in April to a 34-count indictment filed in New York through Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The former president, now a front-runner in the campaign for the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination, is also under investigation in Georgia concerning allegations that he tried to overturn the state's results in the 2020 presidential election.
Cruz told Bolling that he not only believes indicting Trump in connection with the Jan. 6 protests would be an "abuse of power," but he thinks "each of the Trump indictments we've seen so far are abuses of power."
"They are politicizing the Justice Department," the senator said. "This Department of Justice, this attorney general, this FBI is the most politicized and weaponized we've ever seen."
Further, Cruz called for Attorney Merrick Garland's impeachment and removal from office "for allowing the Department of Justice to be turned into a partisan hammer to attack the political enemies of the White House."
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