BONUS: Whistleblower Was Silenced for Calling out the LIES in the Russia Ho
By The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
August 5, 2025
On this episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz and Ben Ferguson discuss:
🕵️♂️ Whistleblower Claims
- A whistleblower from the Obama-era intelligence community alleges they were pressured and silenced when they tried to challenge the narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
- The whistleblower claims: Intelligence assessments were manipulated.
- Critical context was omitted from the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).
- There was pressure to align with a predetermined narrative favoring claims of Russian interference.
- Other foreign influences were ignored.
- Tulsi Gabbard is cited as having shared and supported the whistleblower’s claims on social media.
- The hosts argue this supports the idea that the “Russia hoax” was a politically motivated effort to undermine Donald Trump.
📚 Kamala Harris Critique
- The episode also critiques Kamala Harris’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new book, 107 Days.
- The hosts mock: Her explanation for not running for governor of California.
- Her comments on democracy, the Supreme Court, and the Department of Education.
- Her perceived lack of leadership and clarity about who leads the Democratic Party.
- They argue that Harris and the Democratic Party are out of touch with voters and dismissive of democratic outcomes they disagree with.
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