Ted Cruz derails gun violence hearing to demand George Soros investigation

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) veered off topic at a gun violence hearing on Tuesday to ask why the Senate committee was not investigating liberal billionaire George Soros.

At a Judiciary Committee hearing, Cruz used the majority of his time to grandstand and attack Democrats.

"Every single Democrat in the United States Senate voted to confirm all three of the Biden nominees, including Rachel Rollins, nominated by the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, one of the leading advocates of abolishing the police as a local prosecutor," Cruz complained. "She put out a list of violent crimes that she wouldn't prosecute."

Cruz then called for hearings into Soros and Black Lives Matter.

"You know what?" he asked. "We're not having a hearing on the impact of Soros prosecutors releasing violent criminals from jail. We're not having a hearing on carjacking in Washington, D.C., because the Democrat city council lowered the penalty for carjacking, lowered the penalty for murder."

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"We're also not having a hearing on the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots across the country, because to Democrats, when stores are being looted, when police cars are being firebombed when police officers are being murdered, that's not a crisis if they agree with the ideology of the criminals," he added.

Cruz accused Democrats of wanting "to take away the firearm from the single mom who's taking the subway home at night, who that is the only prevention she has against the violent criminals that the Democrats are unleashing."

Watch the video below from the Senate Judiciary Committee.