Texas AG Backs Off Trump's Election Fraud Claims After Facing Punishment

Indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was one of the leaders in challenging the 2020 election results and promoting Trump's lies, but this past month something changed. In a petition to the Texas state bar, Paxton argued that it wasn't so much "fraud" as it was just some "irregularities", and who knows if that could have changed the election. Paxton is fighting for his legal license and decided that he had to change his tune to keep his title. Farron Cousins explains what's happening and why it is likely to anger Donald Trump.

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Embattled Republican, Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, uh, has finally, for some strange reason, decided to back off of his claims that the election was stolen from Donald Trump in 2020. Now let's not forget. Paxton actually led a lawsuit that went to the Supreme court, challenging the results of the 2020 election. The case was not taken up by the court. And because of that, Paxton is now facing a petition in his home state of Texas, by members of the Texas state bar to have him disbarred, to take away his law license. So earlier in July, Paxton had to submit his own petition. And in the petition, he didn't say that he filed the suit because of widespread voter fraud, which is something he had alleged in the past. He didn't say that the election was stolen. Nope. He softened his language changes, changed his tune a little bit and said there were irregularities, you know, there, there were some irregularities in the election and Hey, we're just, we're just trying to get to the bottom of it. My lawsuit was neither frivolous or unethical. I did what I had to do because of irregularities.

Now

You may not think that that is a huge departure from going out there and pounding tables and saying there was fraud, but in the eyes of the law, it is okay. And he knows that. So that's why he softened the language like, oh, nobody's talking fraud here, folks. We're

Just saying there's a regularity is right. You know?

So what are those irregularities you might ask? I look, according to Paxton, Pennsylvania changed the law and, and let people vote by mail.

Yeah.

That's actually one of the irregularities he's talking about. And, um, which is why his suit basically got laughed out of the Supreme court. Oh, and by the way, the Supreme court also smacked down one of his legal arguments as not true because he had also falsely claimed to the courts that the state of Pennsylvania was not following their own signature match law, which has the Supreme court pointed out to him. Uh, that law doesn't exist, buddy. Sorry. Thanks for playing. So the fact that he filed a lawsuit for which one, he didn't have standing as the Texas attorney general, you have no right to challenge the way other states conduct elections. You didn't even have standing, but you filed the suit. Anyway, you filed it based on a law that didn't even exist. Like you tried to challenge a law that didn't exist. And now you're trying to fight to keep your law license.

You file a suit where you don't have standing against a law. That's not even real. I would say that warrants disbarment, in my opinion, of course I am not a member of the Texas state bar. So I don't have a say in any of this, but come on folks, would you go to a lawyer that knowingly filed a lawsuit? That one, he didn't even have the right to file. And two was based on something that didn't exist. No, you would look at this guy and be like, wow, you're an idiot. You're challenging things that aren't even real. You're claiming irregularities when it's just a law passed in another state. You can't do that. Ken Paxton, who was also by the way, indicted several years ago for fraud, still awaiting that trial.

Well

Folks, that's the story of Ken Paxton, right? Oh, by the way, he's also under another investigation right now. That's probably going to lead to more indictments that, uh, involves things like bribery and deception and all kinds of other fraud. So yet Ken Paxton probably going to go down whether or not he gets disbarred for his frivolous lawsuit is a different story. But considering all of the other things that could be coming down the pipeline to criminally charge him, I think it's a fairly safe bet that this guy is eventually going to be disbarred. And even his endorsement from Donald Trump this past week, isn't going to save him from any of that, but see, there's the other side of the court

And isn't it because Trump came out and endorsed him last week,