Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former president Donald Trump show support for AG Paxton
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former president Donald Trump slammed the impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Both shared their feelings on social media.
“For the last nine years, Ken has been the strongest conservative AG in the country. Bar none,” Cruz wrote Saturday morning in a post on Twitter. “No attorney general has battled the abuses of the Biden admin more ferociously — and more effectively — than has Paxton.”
Trump, in a post on TruthSocial, said he hoped that House Republicans would see the impeachment proceedings as an “unfair process.”
“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,” Trump wrote.
“You would think that any issue would have been fully adjudicated by the voters of Texas, especially when that vote was so conclusive.”
State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican from Arlington, said he was concerned by the “lack of transparency in the process.” He also shared Trump’s social media post and thanked the former president for his comments.
This story was originally published May 27, 2023 at 1:39 PM.
