Additionally, seven of Paxton’s former top aides in October accused him of bribery and abuse of office. The FBI is currently investigating the allegations.
The odds that federal charges will be filed are lower than one in a quadrillion to the ninth power.
Or so I hear.
Low energy.
The only way Trump would ever pardon him is if he wins this lawsuit. If that’s the case, then we have far more to worry about than his securities fraud. But, if he wants to sound even remotely believable, he needs to state without equivocation that he will never, under any circumstances, accept a pardon and that if Trump were to offer him one he would reject it. Not that I’d believe him, but Donald might, and that would give him the political cover he needs. Paxton can throw himself under the bus now.
He just realized that if the lawsuit works and the election is overturned the pardon machine won’t be revved up. If it doesn’t work and SCOTUS doesn’t overturn the election he won’t have fulfilled his end of the transaction. Another dignity wraith bites the dust.
His crystal ball even told him which states to focus on. It’s very good crystal. Very good, ice blue crystal straight from some guy named Heisenberg, I hear.
Guy running 3 card monte game say what?
Amazing how Paxton knew a year ago that there would be election fraud and his response was to spend that year preparing a lawsuit.
Hey, Pax! tRump just spat on the floor. Be a good boy and go lick it up.
F***-ing tool.
The lawsuit is based (using all of those terms very loosely) on the fact that governors altered the rules to accommodate voters in the midst of a pandemic. I could swear that the Governor of Texas made a number of changes as well, so isn’t their election also invalid? And what about the congressional and state elections held on the same ballot?
To be fair, he could not have prevented fraud in all those other states, so he spent at least some of the year working to suppress the vote in his home state.
Or maybe Texas is sending their brightest. Now there’s a thought to give you a frisson of horror.
Good point. But of course, with Trump, “logic” might work the other way: it would be another media circus, and another day (week) of attention.
Okay, I know I shouldn’t engage this in good faith when he’s clearly acting in bad faith, but…
How could he possibly have been working on this case “for the last year”? The election happened within the last month, and many of the “unconstitutional changes” he alleges (he really ought to pursue changes that occurred in Texas) occurred within the last three months. Putting aside its absurdity, the “case” only “matters” because of the outcome of the election. No one, not even Trump acolytes, would have filed this case, had those states gone for Trump.
He’s basically asking to see the manager because he broke an item he wanted to buy while pulling it off a shelf.
Right?! He knew over a year ago that we’d be in a global pandemic raging out of control with a federal government doing absolutely nothing about it thus forcing states to expand voting/make it easier to vote to avoid virus spread? He knew all that and didn’t tell us?
Also, he could prove the ridiculousness of the charge by publicly stating he will reject any pardon should he receive it.
The scope may be wider in this case than Trump’s usual transactional thinking. Trump wants to retain an iron grip on the GOP, and so far it’s working. If he thinks a pardon for Paxton helps him stay solid with Texas Republicans, or just Republicans in general, he’ll do it.
Anyway, Trump will be blaming the Deep State and cowardly, disloyal judges for losing the case, not so much Paxton and the red state AG’s who signed onto it. They’re the good guys in Trump’s world.
Go fuck right on off Ken. You are the slimiest pol I’ve ever seen in Texas. And I’ve witnessed closeup Tom DeLay’s US House arm-twisting and Texas state district gerrymandering assholery.
You are a crook. Without a cause-- other than your own.
Paxie isn’t fishing for a pardon.
He’s begging in a volume-eleven voice.
Squeaky dickhead wanted grease.
Now he’s been tossed into the fryer.
How’s the heat Ken?
Edit
This “case” is an act of voter suppression, plain and simple.
Even though the “case” is absurd and inane, its horrific consequence is a blueprint of how to weaponize a civil right in order to suppress a civil right, the right-to-vote equivalent of “religious liberty” legislation.