In his first interview since he was acquitted over the weekend in a historic impeachment trial, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ® lashed out at the Biden administration and the Lone Star State’s House Speaker Dade Phelan ® over his impeachment and trial.
“So you think that the effort to remove you from office really came from the Biden administration?” commentator Tucker Carlson asked Paxton in the interview, posted to the platform X.
“I really do,” Paxton said, adding that he thinks “that’s where it was instigated.”
The attorney general alleged that the impeachment was a way to get him “out of the way” after he filed lawsuits against the administration.
Paxton, who had been suspended from his post since the Texas House voted to impeach him earlier this year, was acquitted by a jury of state senators over the weekend on all 16 articles of impeachment he faced.