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OUTRAGE: Ken Paxton’s salary was CUT OFF even though the law forbade it

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted by the Texas Senate on Saturday on 16 articles of impeachment, and Sara Gonzales is thrilled.

“What a sight to behold, our elected attorney general sitting in his office with the sign behind him,” Gonzales tells Paxton.

While Paxton is thrilled to be back as well, he admits that it’s been anything but easy — and his detractors were working overtime to make sure they got him while he was down.

“I lost all my resources, I had no campaign money left, because we’d been through a moratorium during session. I spent all my money during the campaign to win, so they knew they had me at a disadvantage,” he tells Gonzales.

While Paxton is still trying to raise money to pay his costs, those against him had as many taxpayer-funded lawyers as they wanted.

“Of course they had the media helping them; they were, you know, slipping stories to them even though there was a gag order, and then I wasn’t allowed to talk about it even if they hit me with things that were absolutely false,” he continues.

Paxton also admits he lost employees who were worried about their jobs.

“To think none of that had to happen if it weren’t for the House jamming this through with no evidence,” Gonzales says, before asking Paxton about something he revealed on Tucker Carlson’s show.

“Did I really just hear you say on Tucker last night that the Texas comptroller, Glenn Hegar, did not pay you even though he is required by law to pay you while you were forced to leave?” She asks.

“Yeah, it was an unfortunate incidence. He cut off my salary, he has no statutory authority to do that, and he knew that if I tried to fight that one, I didn’t have time,” he responds.

Hegar also knew that not only did Paxton not have time to sue, but suing in Austin would be a losing game for Paxton anyway.

“Suing in Austin is not going to be successful for me no matter what the law is. We have a lot of liberal judges here that would make a political issue out of it instead of a legal issue. But yes, he took away my salary as far as I know. I don’t have a salary back yet,” he says.

Paxton also claims that Hegar never gave him a warning; he just did it.

“When they submitted my salary, he threatened to cut off everybody’s salary in my office unless they took me out of the payroll,” he says, adding, “That’s how far Glenn Hegar went to try to keep me from getting paid.”



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Did Soros ‘Republicans’ make it ILLEGAL for Texas AG Ken Paxton to prosecute voter fraud?!

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Ken Paxton was acquitted by the Texas Senate on Saturday on 16 articles of impeachment, and some are not so happy about it.

A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece written by the outlet’s entire editorial board states, “Mr. Paxton’s defenders are spinning that he was saved by a populist national conservative groundswell to put an end to the ‘Bush era’ in Texas. What a joke.”

“The acquittal,” the piece continues, “may not play out so well for Texas Republicans in the longer run. A federal investigation into Mr. Paxton is continuing amid reports that a grand jury has been impaneled.”

“I’ve been investigated ever since the day I walked into this office,” Paxton tells Glenn Beck. “I have no doubt that the Biden administration would love to find some way — they’ve been working on it for years to get rid of me, and part of that process was the impeachment.”

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Paxton also mentioned that the Texas Courts of Appeals recently made it illegal for him to prosecute voter fraud.

“Is that true?” Glenn asks Paxton.

“Yes, that is correct. They struck down a law from 1951,” Paxton tells Glenn. “In 1951, the legislature directed the attorney general — it’s the only thing I have original jurisdiction on as it relates to criminal matters.”

Paxton is convinced those who struck down this law are “not Republicans.”

“They struck down this law, and it said that I don’t have the authority to go to court as attorney general because I’m in the executive branch. That was their rationale for striking down things. [It’s] unconstitutional for the attorney general to be in court,” he continues.

“That is the most insane decision ever, but they did it. And now it’s up to the local DAs to prosecute,” Paxton adds.

Paxton believes this decision opens up Texas to voter fraud.

“The people of Texas need to know that.”



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Newly acquitted Texas AG Ken Paxton considering running against Cornyn for Senate seat, telling Tucker Carlson, ‘Everything is on the table for me’

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was
acquitted on all 16 articles of impeachment by the GOP-controlled state Senate on Sept. 16, bringing what his lawyer deemed a “political witch hunt” to an end.

No longer subject to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s wide-ranging
gag order, Paxton appeared on the Wednesday episode of “Tucker Carlson on X,” where he discussed his impeachment, the possible motivations behind it, and his apparent foes in and outside the Republican Party.

Among the various supposed adversaries Paxton addressed over the course of the 46-minute interview, including his
staunch critic Karl Rove, the Bush family, whose champion he crushed in the 2022 Texas GOP primary, and the Biden administration, the Lone Star AG saved his most pointed critique for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

“To me, he’s been in Washington too long. He’s been there, what, for 14 years or so? And I can’t think of a single thing he’s accomplished for our state or even for the country,” said Paxton.

Paxton alleged that Cornyn, a senator since 2002 who
voted last year for gun control legislation, appears more concerned about protecting foreign nations than his own state, telling Carlson, “I haven’t seen him in that fight.”

Responding to Paxton’s subsequent claim that Cornyn has “never really had competition,” Carlson pressed the AG on whether he might consider running against him.

“Look, everything’s on the table for me,” Paxton said. “Now that I’ve been through this and I’ve seen how guys like John Cornyn have represented the state of Texas — and not represented us — I think it’s time somebody needs to step up and run against this guy that will do the job and do it the right way and represent us and worry about what’s going on at the border.”

Paxton added that the days when “money from DC and the support from guys like Mitch McConnell” would be enough to bolster a politico like Cornyn “are over.”

Cornyn, who has a
86.63 lifetime rating (out of 100) from the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Center for Legislative Accountability, handily won his 2020 Senate race, securing over a million more votes than his Democratic rival in the general election. In the preceding GOP primary, he lead the runner-up by over 64 points.

NBC News
indicated Cornyn had not responded to their request for comment.

The senator has, however, traded barbs with Paxton in recent weeks and years.

Earlier this month, Cornyn
called the allegations that had been levied against Paxton “deeply disturbing.”

In May 2022, Cornyn said the accusations of improprieties on Paxton’s part that were circulating at the time were “a source of embarrassment to me that that has been unresolved,”
reported the Texas Tribune.

Beyond intimating he might primary Cornyn in 2026, Paxton discussed possible motivations behind the effort to see him removed as Texas AG, noting that on the “[state] House investigating committees, there’s five members. There’s three Republicans and two Democrats. … They are the ones who investigated me and they hired, I think, four lawyers. Two of them came from the Biden DOJ. That’s not an accident. They were sent there.”

Carlson suggested the 48 lawsuits Paxton had filed against the Biden administration may have been what drew the ire of the federal powers that be.

“We were causing a lot of trouble for the Biden administration. Even if we didn’t win, we slowed them down and we were winning,” said Paxton. “I think our number is 77% of our cases. So we are a huge problem for the Biden administration.”

However, immediately upon being impeached, Paxton noted, he lost his office and was no longer in a position to bring additional lawsuits against the Biden administration. Upon his acquittal, his suspension was reportedly lifted.

The Dallas Morning News
reported that while Paxton’s impeachment is behind him, he may yet face more legal troubles and trials for his felony state charges, legal ethics complaint, and an ongoing whistleblower lawsuit.

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Hold up: Did RINO Texas politicians ACTUALLY impeach an elected attorney general with ZERO evidence?

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According to Glenn Beck, something is very wrong in Texas.

The Texas state legislature is holding an impeachment trial for Attorney General Ken Paxton, but Glenn believes it might not be a legitimate trial but rather a RINO Republican hit job.

Texas Scorecard managing editor Brandon Waltens has been keeping tabs — and tells Glenn just what he knows.

“There is an impeachment going on of probably the strongest attorney general in the nation,” Glenn says, before asking Waltens how Texas got to this point.

Waltens explains that Ken Paxton was accused of abusing his office to help a friend by employees at the Office of the Attorney General, who then went to the FBI and reported him.

Over Memorial Day weekend, Texas lawmakers voted to impeach Paxton “based on testimony that wasn’t sworn testimony,” Waltens says. “Ken Paxton wasn’t made aware of their investigation until it came out, 48 hours before the vote.”

Waltens notes that the “House members were unable to look at the actual testimony; they had to rely on the word of the House as investigators.”

Paxton was not even allowed to respond in his own defense.

While those who have been pushing the impeachment have claimed the testimony and evidence would be groundbreaking, the trial started last week, and it’s anything but.

“The testimony has really, really been weak,” Waltens says.

According to the third whistleblower, “the concern began when Paxton advocated for the AG’s office to open an investigation into Nate Paul, alleged mistreatment by the FBI and Texas DPS during a raid.”

The whistleblower came to the “opinion” that Paul, who is Paxton’s friend, was a criminal who was not to be associated with.

Paxton believed the FBI was untrustworthy, which Glenn jokes is “far-fetched,” and hired outside counsel to help explore and adjudicate Paul’s claims.

Those who have been called to testify have discussed how “insane” it would be to investigate the FBI, which Waltens finds interesting, as a recent poll reports that 78% of Texans do not trust the FBI.

“It looks like someone else, some outside force is involved here,” Waltens says.



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