TX AG Ken Paxton impeached and removed

[gounion]

Let me know when you are ready to really do something about corruption and we will talk. You are only interested in combatting corruption when it suits your political ideology.

If you are voting for people like Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis, you are 100% in favor of corruption. Remember how you used to complain about Medicare fraud? Well, Rick Scott was in charge of the biggest overcharging scandal in US history. But you’re going to vote for him next year. So get off that high horse.

[JoeMemphis]

If you are voting for people like Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis, you are 100% in favor of corruption. Remember how you used to complain about Medicare fraud? Well, Rick Scott was in charge of the biggest overcharging scandal in US history. But you’re going to vote for him next year. So get off that high horse.

Not on a high horse. I just recognize you talk about the evil of corruption but if it’s in your party you are deaf, dumb and blind to it.

[gounion]

Not on a high horse. I just recognize you talk about the evil of corruption but if it’s in your party you are deaf, dumb and blind to it.

Nope. I won’t vote for a corrupt candidate. YOU, however, WILL.

[JoeMemphis]

Nope. I won’t vote for a corrupt candidate. YOU, however, WILL.

I know how you work. Nobody is corrupt when you refuse to investigate them and allow them to hide behind the law. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Liars ethics. That’s you. Always has been. Always will be.

[gounion]

I know how you work. Nobody is corrupt when you refuse to investigate them and allow them to hide behind the law. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Liars ethics. That’s you. Always has been. Always will be.

You support Rick Scott. ‘Nuff said.

[JoeMemphis]

You support Rick Scott. ‘Nuff said.

By your standards, he is not corrupt. Not charged. Not convicted. Fully investigated and released by Janet Reno’s DOJ. That is your standard. You must be proud.

[gounion]

You are the one who claims money is fiction. So you are worried about a whole lot of fiction. So yeah - you got nothing.

Just dealing in reality. Money IS a fiction. We made it up. The financial system, banking, corporations, all of it is made up out of thin air.

[gounion]

Paxton Impeachment Watch. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ken-paxto ... -dunk-case

Famed criminal defense attorney Dick DeGuerin—who has represented clients ranging from former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to convicted murderer and New York City real estate heir Robert Durst to cult leader David Koresh—is now determined to “save and protect the people of Texas from a crooked attorney general.”

“The depth of corruption is astonishing,” DeGuerin told The Daily Beast, referring to beleaguered AG Ken Paxton, who is facing 20 impeachment counts regarding a raft of alarming allegations that stretch back nearly a decade.

“It’s a matter of corruption, a matter of abuse of the public trust, a matter of misuse of public resources, flat-out bribery, perjury,” said DeGuerin, a one-time prosecutor who will help make the case on the House floor for Paxton’s conviction. “It’s just conduct that convinces anyone that looks at it fairly that the office of attorney general has been abused and used for personal gain.”

The evidence gathered thus far is “very strong,” and “will support every one of the 20 articles of impeachment,” according to DeGuerin.

Paxton, a GOP superstar before his extraordinary fall from grace, was suspended from office on May 27, immediately after the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives voted 121-23 to impeach him. Investigators working for the legislature say the state’s top cop committed a litany of crimes while in office, including multiple felonies dating back nearly a decade. Late last month, they gave a stunning recap of Paxton’s alleged wrongdoing, accusing Paxton of, among many other things, misusing his position to protect real estate investor Nate Paul, a wealthy political donor, from foreclosure; targeting a charity that was suing Paul for fraud; obtaining a job for his mistress at Paul’s company; and firing four of his own top staffers for blowing the whistle on their concerns about his behavior.

Paxton is also accused of obstructing an investigation into allegations of securities fraud, for which he was indicted on felony charges in 2015. (“It curls my mustache,” Rep. Andrew Murr, the Republican chair of the House General Investigating Committee, said in response to the laundry list of allegations.) A staunch right-winger, Paxton openly celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year, has called for drag performers to be prosecuted, and has tried to make it harder for asylum-seekers to enter the country while making it easier for everyday citizens to carry guns.

[gounion]

Seems our conservatives are too busy being outraged by Hunter Biden and defending Donald Trump to say a word about the trial of Ken Paxton, going on now. But when your top deputy says you’re corrupt, that’s pretty telling, wouldn’t you say? https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/06 ... al-mateer/

At the end of September 2020, it finally made sense to Jeff Mateer why his boss, Attorney General Ken Paxton, was devoting so much of the agency’s attention to Paxton’s friend, Austin real estate investor Nate Paul.

In Wednesday testimony that took up most of the second day of Paxton’s impeachment trial, Mateer said that for months he could not figure out why Paxton had brushed off repeated warnings that assisting Paul in his business disputes was an improper use of state resources.

And then, as the office was erupting in crisis when senior deputies learned that Paxton had quietly hired an outside lawyer to conduct an investigation on Paul’s behalf, Mateer said he learned something else. Paul had hired the woman with whom Paxton was having an extramarital affair, allowing her to move to Austin, where the attorney general could more easily visit her.

“It answered the question, why is he engaging in all these activities … on behalf of Mr. Paul?” Mateer testified. “It seemed to be he was under undue influence. At times, I wondered: Is he being blackmailed?”

In more than six hours of testimony, Mateer — the first witness called by the House impeachment managers — detailed his growing concerns through the summer and fall of 2020 about Paxton’s relationship with Paul, culminating in Mateer’s decision to join other senior advisers in reporting the attorney general’s behavior to the FBI on Sept. 30.

“I concluded that Mr. Paxton was engaged in conduct that was immoral, unethical, and I had the good faith belief that it was illegal,” Mateer testified.

Paxton’s lawyer attempted to cast Mateer as a rogue employee and disloyal friend of Paxton, arguing that the former first assistant jumped to conclusions about impropriety based on incomplete and inaccurate information. Attorney Tony Buzbee also accused Mateer of leading an attempted coup against Paxton.

But as Paxton has cast the impeachment as a persecution led by Democrats and liberal Republicans, Mateer presented a problem. He is an evangelical Christian and champion of religious liberty whose hiring by Paxton was praised by conservatives. And unlike four other senior deputies who filed a whistleblower lawsuit and later negotiated a proposed $3.3 million settlement — prompting Paxton’s camp to suggest they had a financial motivation for their allegations — Mateer simply quit within days of meeting with FBI agents in 2020.

[Glennfs]

Seems our conservatives are too busy being outraged by Hunter Biden and defending Donald Trump to say a word about the trial of Ken Paxton, going on now. But when your top deputy says you’re corrupt, that’s pretty telling, wouldn’t you say? https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/06 ... al-mateer/

The trial of Paxton is a state issue that really has very little to do with the rest of us

Could you please show some evidence aboutyour Joe Memphis claim. As it stands now all it does is show you for being a lying blowhard

[gounion]

The trial of Paxton is a state issue that really has very little to do with the rest of us

No, it's a CORRUPTION issue that has to do with everyone.

Just like the GOP in Wisconsin that wants to impeach a judge before they make a ruling. But that's okay with you, too, right?

Could you please show some evidence aboutyour Joe Memphis claim. As it stands now all it does is show you for being a lying blowhard

It's Joe that says the GOP shouldn't do what a judge says to do. I guess you agree with him.

[Drak]

The trial of Paxton is a state issue that really has very little to do with the rest of us

Could you please show some evidence aboutyour Joe Memphis claim. As it stands now all it does is show you for being a lying blowhard

False, Paxton is the corrupt AG of a state that is significant in determining elections. Funny what you decide is your business and what isn’t. You certainly don’t mind voicing issues you have with the Georgia State DA.

[Drak]

Funny that Glenn also has no problem being vocal on state issues regarding California or New York.

[gounion]

Glenn, before you take a stupid position just to NOT agree with us, do you EVER think of how stupid and hypocritical it's going to make you look?