Thu Sep 21, 2023 – 6:24 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on Wednesday in the first interview since he was fully acquitted of over a dozen articles of impeachment, arguing he was politically targeted as a result of his efforts to investigate Big Tech, Big Pharma, and vote fraud.
The Texas Senate voted Saturday to acquit Paxton on the charges of misconduct, bribery and corruption.
In a 45-minute interview posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, the Republican AG told Carlson he had been suspended, cut off from his income, and placed under a gag order after 16 articles of impeachment were brought against him.
“It became very political,” Paxton said. “And I am sitting here because of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and I was delivered. It wasn’t just about the law. It became political completely and I didn’t know how it was going to turn out … ”
“If you can do impeachments like this and you can have mail-in ballots, we don’t have democracy,” he said. “We have control by a few people.”
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