Texas Lawsuit's Tell, And Paxton's Office Subpoenaed By FBI

News Item:  The heinous "lawsuit" filed by manifestly corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken "Show Me The Money" Paxton with SCOTUS is an admission that phony fraud claims have run their course:

The GOP’s latest effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, like many such efforts before it, is a bit of a mess.

The lawsuit, which was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and is now joined by the Trump campaign and 17 other Republican attorneys general, wrongly claims that no presidential candidate has lost both Florida and Ohio and won the presidency. (This would be news to John F. Kennedy.) It ridiculously suggests that late vote shifts in key states were astronomically improbable — to the tune of 1 in 1 quadrillion — a claim which Philip Bump dispatches here. Its attempt to invalidate the vote in four states has already been rebuked by several top Republicans, and not exactly Mitt Romney Republicans.

But the GOP’s new focus on this hail-Mary case is also notable for one key reason: It essentially throws in the towel on proving fraud.

Please read the article for the "tell" on giving up on proving fraud.

So, since the bottom line for most, if not all, Republican officeholders is "What's in it for me?", what does Paxton see to gain from this?  It's pretty obvious:  file a lawsuit/ get a pardon quid pro quo:

NEW: FBI agents delivered at least one federal subpoena to the Texas Attorney General's office Wednesday for information in an ongoing investigation involving AG Ken Paxton, three sources confirm, indicating the seriousness with which they are taking allegations against Paxton. pic.twitter.com/hn77HfcDwj

— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) December 10, 2020

 

If the Texas Bar Association had any ethical balls, Paxton's law license would have been pulled long ago.  That said, now that the Justice Department will be following the law rather than shielding high- profile cronies of the Trump Crime Family, reviving the dormant securities fraud investigation of Paxton, as well as the current FBI investigation into abuse of power are what Paxton rightly fears is coming his way.  It's why his desperate ploy -- that Mango Mussolini has grasped and made a loyalty test for his rotted out party -- is to ensure that he gets his "get out of jail" card.  So, the coverup and corruption roll on.

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