Ted Cruz

But he hadn't fully realized.

And he was afraid even to talk to his therapist.

How was he caught?

How was his his abuse discovered?

Well, one of the things you talked about at the press conference today is how your brother's lawyer was pressuring him to sign this NDA.

And the incentives of the current system, look, an abuser has every incentive in the world to try to cover it up, to try to hide it, to want an NDA, to not have truth and transparency.

And so we are seeing NDAs demanded by abusers in exchange for compensation.

And the way our legal system works is typically if a victim has a lawyer, that lawyer will usually be compensated on a contingency basis where they receive a portion of whatever financial recovery there is.

So the lawyer has every incentive in the world.

to try to reach a deal, to try to reach a settlement, to have a financial amount paid, and to discount the harm of silencing their client.

And so it's one of the real values of Trey's Law, is that when this passes, and I didn't say if, I said when, we will get this passed.

When this passes,

That incentive will go away.

Look, if you're negotiating a settlement, I used an example earlier today.

There aren't settlement agreements that say as a condition of the settlement, you have to deal crack cocaine.

Because dealing crack cocaine is illegal.

And so you can't agree in a settlement to do something that is illegal.

By taking NDAs off the table,

for forcing victims of child sex abuse to not be able to disclose what happened to them, that incentive for their lawyers to pressure them to do this will go away likewise.

And importantly, we drafted Trey's Law so that a victim can still insist on an NDA for the abuser.