Ted Cruz: Joe Biden Should ‘Share a Cell With Hunter’ If Found Guilty of Bribery

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) claimed Friday that Joe Biden should go to prison if found guilty of bribery.

“The essence of a bribery is a quid pro quo. We remember from the first Trump impeachment. The media, Jake knows what a quid pro quo is. He talked about it incessantly when it concerned Donald Trump,” Cruz said on Fox News Channel’s Hannity while explaining how CNN’s Jack Tapper downplayed the payments made to the Bidens as “sort of influence peddling.”

“Quid pro quo is Latin for ‘this for that.’ Bribery is paying someone something of value in an exchange for an official favor,” Cruz continued. “Now, the quo we know happened because as you noted, Joe Biden has confessed to it in a video interview where he said he went to Ukraine. He held hostage a billion dollars in U.S. loan guarantees and demanded that the Ukrainian government fire the prosecutor that is investigating Burisma and investigating the oligarch.”

Cruz said it must be determined if some of the $20 million in payments revealed in bank records by the House Oversight Committee was given to Biden in exchange for firing Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

“We know the quo happened. The only question was, did the quid happen? Did they pay $10 million for him to do so? If so, Joe Biden is guilty of bribery,” Cruz said. “Hunter is guilty of selling bribes, selling official favors from his father. And if that is the case, Joe Biden should be impeached. He should be removed from office. He should be prosecuted, and he should go to prison, and he should share a cell with Hunter for corrupting the government of the United States.”

This comes as Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the DOJ’s “investigation” of Hunter after his sweetheart deal was rejected by the judge presiding over his case.