{"id":84768,"date":"2023-05-27T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=84768"},"modified":"2023-05-27T21:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T21:17:29","slug":"trump-slams-texas-rinos-over-paxton-impeachment-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=84768","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams Texas ‘RINOS’ over Paxton impeachment effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Politics<\/p>\n

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday gave his full backing to Ken Paxton as the Texas attorney general faced historic impeachment proceedings led by state Republicans.<\/p>\n

Trump took to Truth Social to praise the embattled attorney general and condemn both \u201cRadical Left Democrats\u201d and \u201cRINOS\u201d alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Texas, won it twice in landslides, and watched as many other friends, including Ken Paxton, came along with me,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cHopefully Republicans in the Texas House will agree that this is a very unfair process that should not be allowed to happen or proceed\u2014I will fight you if it does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump lashed out in particular at Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, who Trump called \u201cbarely a Republican at all.\u201d Trump also declared the proceedings \u201celection interference,\u201d and said \u201cFree Ken Paxton, let them wait for the next election!\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2020, Paxton asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President Joe Biden\u2019s electoral defeat of Trump.<\/p>\n

Scandals have followed Paxton throughout his career, with the latest accusations of bribery and abuse of public trust resulting in the GOP-majority House convening Saturday to begin impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n

If impeached \u2014 as only the third official in Texas\u2019 history to meet such a fate \u2014 Paxton would be removed from office pending a Senate trial. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would appoint an interim replacement. Final removal would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate, where Paxton\u2019s wife, Angela, is a member.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) also expressed support for Paxton, calling the impeachment proceedings a \u201ctravesty\u201d in a series of Tweets Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo attorney general has battled the abuses of the Biden admin more ferociously\u2014and more effectively\u2014than has Paxton,\u201d Cruz wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s why the swamp in Austin wants him out. The special interests don\u2019t want a steadfast conservative AG. I understand that people are concerned about Ken\u2019s legal challenges. But the courts should sort them out.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement released Thursday<\/a>, Paxton called the accusations \u201chearsay and gossip,\u201d before claiming that the impeachment proceedings were \u201can attempt to overthrow the will of the people and disenfranchise the voters of our state.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, he called for his supporters to \u201cpeacefully come let their voices be heard at the Capitol tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the course of the proceedings Saturday, Republican state Rep. Charlie Geren took to the floor to allege that multiple members of the House body had received direct phone calls from Paxton threatening their political career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to point out that several members of this House, while on the floor of this House, doing the state business, received telephone calls from [Attorney] General Paxton personally, threatening them with political consequences in their next election,\u201d Geren said.<\/p>\n

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