Trump Calls on Texas Supreme Court to Allow Scandal-Ridden Loyalist AG to Skip Deposition in Corruption Lawsuit

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Former President Donald Trump urged the Texas Supreme Court to allow the state’s embattled attorney general, Ken Paxton (R), to skip out on a scheduled deposition for a wrongful termination lawsuit on Tuesday.

“The great Supreme Court of Texas now has a big choice to make. Enough time and money has been wasted forcing Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, to defend himself, instead of defending our broken Southern Border, which is under continual siege,” declared Trump on Truth Social. “He has already been fully acquitted in the Impeachment Hoax. End the Politicization and Abuse of our Justice System, restore Law and Order and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Paxton was impeached in the Texas House of Representatives last spring by a vote of 121-23. The Texas Senate subsequently overwhelmingly rejected Paxton’s plea for all charges to be dropped, but did ultimately fail to convict and remove him from office. Paxton’s wife is a member of the Texas Senate, but was barred from voting on her husband’s impeachment.

The attorney general has asked the Lone Star State’s Supreme Court to overrule an appellate decision compelling Paxton to submit to a deposition in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by four whistleblowers who say they were dismissed from his office in retaliation for sounding the alarm about Paxton’s activities.

Paxton is a longtime loyalist to Trump who led the infamous lawsuit asking the United States Supreme Court to invalidate sixty-two electoral votes for President Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election and throw the election to the incumbent. He also delivered a speech at the rally preceding the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

The Court refused to even take Paxton’s case, but Paxton insisted that it should have during his speech.

“What we have in President Trump is a fighter. And I think that’s why we’re all here,” declared Paxton. “We will not quit fighting. We’re Texans, we’re Americans, and the fight will go on.”