Ex-GOP Congressman Eviscerates Ken Paxton: ‘Most Corrupt Attorney General We’ve Had in My Lifetime’

Former Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) pulled no punches this week in lambasting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who is challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the GOP primary in that state.

“As you know, I ran against Ken Paxton for attorney general, and of course, he lied about me,” Gohmert told Victory News on Tuesday night.

“He said the Bush family pushed me to get in to throw it to George P. Bush. He told a lot of lies,” added Gohmert in an interview first flagged by watchdog group Right Wing Watch.

“As his wife now knows, he lied a lot. He’s up there with Struck as far as being able to tell a lie straight-faced. He’s done a lot of great good with conservative lawsuits, but he’s quite corrupt, quite corrupt,” Gohmert said, adding:

But he’s done a lot, like I say, done a lotta conservative good. So on the one hand, we’ve got a senator that I was in strong disagreement with numerous times over the last years — my 18 years in Congress — you know, we’d get to disagreeing over numerous things. I didn’t feel like he was as strong on some things as he should have been. And on the other end… from all the things I know, I think he’s the most corrupt attorney general we’ve had in my lifetime.

Cornyn hammered Paxton using similar rhetoric at a recent campaign rally, slamming his past scandals and corruption allegations, adding, “His own senior staff, who he selected, can’t trust him because they had to go to the FBI and turn him in for interfering in a federal investigation of one of his campaign donors, for which he got impeached. And sadly, not even his own family can trust Ken Paxton.”

The last jab was a reference to Texas State Senator Angela Paxton (R) announcing last July that she was divorcing her husband.

“Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds. I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage,” she wrote on X at the time.

“I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose,” she added, making clear he had stepped outside of their marriage bonds.

Cornyn and Paxton have long jabbed each other online and clearly have no love lost between them. In February 2024, as Cornyn was eyeing a run to lead the Republican caucus in the Senate, Paxton tweeted, “It will be difficult for @JohnCornyn to be an effective leader since he is anti-Trump, anti-gun, and will be focused on his highly competitive primary campaign in 2026. Republicans deserve better in their next leader and Texans deserve another conservative Senator.”

Cornyn shot back, writing, “Hard to run from prison, Ken.”

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