Originally published at: A Trump DOJ Could Bring An End To The Yearslong Investigation Of His Ally Ken Paxton
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Paxton is a fraudster
The feds have been investigating Paxton’s apparent corruption for over four years, and Nate Paul only ended up pleading to a single charge of lying to a financial institution. It would therefore appear that there’s not all that much of an investigation left to squash.
I wonder if Ken is still campaigning every weekend, when he chooses a Christian church to preach in. Regardless of his alleged criminal activities, his character makes warthogs, curmudgeons, and horny toads look handsome, as he takes on various people (El Paso’s Ascension House, Sister Norma Pimentel) who try to bring some comfort to migrants.
A year earlier, the Republican-led Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Paxton
It appears that the purpose of a Senate is to make corruption affordable. Much easier to buy off a dozen Senators instead of a hundred Representatives.
Quite likely, wish the nation could say the same.
When one of the ‘best’ cabinet nominees, that for Treasury Secretary, testifies: “If we do not fix these tax cuts, if we do not renew and extend, then we will be facing an economic calamity, and as always, with financial instability that falls on the middle and working class.”
it becomes abundantly clear that lawlessness at the top is only the beginning. Combined with the rest of the crypto-fascist oppression and oligarchic folly on the national menu the probability there will be a recession or major financial crisis or both within the next four years becomes a virtual certainty.
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric Bastiat
Under Trump all investigations or legal actions against conservatives will end while republicans will use the power of office to go after democrats or any remaining honest members of government.
Could? Don’t you mean “will”?
Birds of a feather
“If there’s one thing both guys share in common,
people have been after them for a whileit’s that they’re both criminals in a big way.”
Fixed!
Paxton is a man after Trump’s heart. He’s a crooked partisan hack and a seditionist.
Trump’s dishonest AG will drop the case. Guaranteed. The rule of law is dead.
He might actually be more crooked than Trump. He is a cancer on Texas.
You can’t compare this POS to a noble beast like the warthog.
(Although I would like to see Paxton in a fight with one.)
And it’s “horned lizard,” thank you very much. Yet another harmless animal slandered by your association.
Though for some reason, the Senators are more expensive.
Invasion is a term of art. Trump needs it when we are not otherwise at war. Any Japanese American can explain what’s happening.