Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was suspended from office this week after the GOP majority Texas state House impeached him over accusations of “bribery” and “abuse of public trust,” conveniently right after the AG called out Texas House Speaker Dave Phelan for appearing to be intoxicated on the House floor.
Paxton, whose impeachment trial before the state Senate is slated to start before August 28, maintains his innocence and hailed the move as an “act of political retribution,” seemingly in response to him asking for Phelan’s resignation for being allegedly drunk on the job.
If anybody should be thrown out of office, it’s Texas House Speaker Dade “Drunk as a Skunk” Phelan, not AG Paxton. This RINO douchebag @DadePhelan took to the House floor three sheets to the wind 👇🤡 pic.twitter.com/2iXVCyv1QE
— LivePDDave 🇺🇸 (@LivePDDave1) May 27, 2023
Paxton recently told reporters that he has been banned from defending himself during the impeachment process, which he described as being a “political” act of revenge.
“The fact that I was prohibited from presenting evidence to defend myself reveals that this shameful process was curated from the start as an act of political retribution,” Paxton exclaimed during a press conference.
“The fact that I was prohibited from presenting evidence to defend myself reveals that this shameful process was curated from the start as an act of political retribution.”
— Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) condemns the state House impeaching him on Saturday pic.twitter.com/FfGez43lQ8
— The Recount (@therecount) May 30, 2023
The Texas AG has long been celebrated among conservatives and Republican voters for his efforts in combating election fraud, illegal immigration, and the Biden administration’s COVID-19 tyranny.
Reacting to a video appearing to show the Texas House Speaker drunkenly slurring his words, 45th President Donald Trump, a supporter of Paxton, said in a post to Truth Social: “So this is the RINO who is responsible for the Impeachment of a just re-Elected Attorney General of Texas who has done an outstanding job? What is our Country coming to?”
“The RINO Speaker of the House of Texas, Dade Phelan, who is barely a Republican at all and failed the test on voter integrity, wants to impeach one of the most hard working and effective Attorney Generals in the United States, Ken Paxton, who just won re-election with a large number of American Patriots strongly voting for him,” the 45th President wrote in separate post.
“You would think that any issue would have been fully adjudicated by the voters of Texas, especially when that vote was so conclusive,” he added.
Trump just said he’s going to “fight” the RINOs in Texas if the impeach Ken Paxton 👀 pic.twitter.com/Px1cyDBvQj
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) May 27, 2023
“I love Texas, won it twice in landslides, and watched as many other friends, including Ken Paxton, came along with me. Hopefully Republicans in the Texas House will agree that this is a very unfair process that should not be allowed to happen or proceed—I will fight you if it does,” Trump continued in a subsequent post.
“It is the Radical Left Democrats, RINOS, and Criminals that never stop. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Free Ken Paxton, let them wait for the next election!”
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