Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said this week that former FBI Director James Comey and his ex-deputy, Andrew McCabe, made “irreconcilably contradictory” statements to legislators in sworn testimony.
“Comey and McCabe’s statements are irreconcilably contradictory,” Cruz wrote on social media in a statement on Thursday. “Whoever is lying under oath is committing a federal crime — and that’s what Comey has been indicted for.”
The senator’s comments come after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Department of Justice has charged Comey with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding in his testimony in 2020 about the FBI’s investigation of connections between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, as well as the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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