Perry Dismisses Indictment: Even David Axelrod Thinks It’s ‘Sketchy’

On Fox News Sunday, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) dismissed the indictment handed down by a Texas grand jury this week alleging that Perry abused his power in threatening to veto funding for an agency run by a Travis County District Attorney he wanted to resign. To demonstrate just how ridiculous the charges were, Perry cited a tweet from former Obama adviser David Axlerod calling the indictment “sketchy.”

“David Axelrod said that this was a very sketchy indictment,” Perry said. “Professor [Alan] Dershowitz, who’s not exactly my cheerleader, said that it was outrageous. So across the board you’re seeing people weigh in, reflecting that this is way outside of the norm…When you’ve got David Axelrod and Harvard law professor Dershowitz saying the things as they’ve said, I think it’s pretty reflective of what we’re working with here.”

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“This is not the way that we settle political differences in this country,” Perry said. “You don’t do it with indictments. We settle our political differences at the ballot box.”

The tweet in question is below:

Unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry indictment seems pretty sketchy.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) August 16, 2014

Watch the clip below, via Fox NEws:

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