Rachel Maddow explains some of the troubled legal backstory behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and notes recent reporting about Donald Trump considering passing out pardons like Halloween candy as Paxton files a bizarre and very unlikely election lawsuit of the kind that humors Trump's upset over his election loss. Aired on 12/9/2020.
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Legally Troubled Texas A.G. Concocts Absurd Election Lawsuit As Trump Muses About Pardons
This guy sounds like a true trumper
@Matt Schultz Be sure to ask for a big glass of Kool-Aid when you get to trumptwon i n Guyana.
@Nitro Martini You’re pretty stupid aren’t you. Let me guess your response. I’m sure it goes something like this, “Gotta problem wit dat?”
@sharon olsen If Trump pulls this off through Texas it would be a big middle finger to the establishment and predicted blue wave.
@TC TC so you saying Trump is crooked.
Did he make money of his presidency?
Look and you’ll find out.
You have no arguments here.
The republican party where different back in 1947 and you ( don’t ) know that?
Educate yourself.
Not a true a trumper just another crook looking for a pardon
A man in desperate need of a pardon joins the charade of the corrupt president with the power to pardon criminals.
When he loses though!! Trump will throw that guy under the bus then roll back and forth over him 100 times.
@Mike Waller https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/17/texas-ken-paxton-fbi/amp/ sure seems like he’s still under federal investigation to me
He isn’t desperate for ANYTHING.
Supreme Court is forcing the States to respond
Awwwe what is it the other 17 States want?
The Senate is going to hold hearings..
There are USPS workers in jail .
Good Luck
he won He stays
Over 100 mil will make sure
China Biden and his crackhead POS kid will be in Prison.
Why do the Dems love China? Money Money giving US top secrets to them for 💰
A pardon for what? What does Trump need a pardon for? Being a meanie lol. He was found innocent of fraud and collusion which the now fact checker Ray Maddow was certain he was guilty of, who’s fact checking this dingbat. This Russian bot (Black Trump supporter) is shocked that liberals are so hiveminded you can’t see the obvious or worst see it but don’t care, they are calling mathematicians and poll research historians wrong for using statistical data that is used in court to prove fraud with 99.5% accuracy to prove Joe Biden didn’t win, he falls into that .5% of anomalies just like he turned reliable red states Hillary and Obama, dynamic candidates couldn’t, although his rallies averaged a whopping 8 people.
They are all striving fo pardons, it’s totally immoral!
@AmericanAndy Thats funny…. You got guns and your guns will put Biden and Harris in office? Biden and Harris in Office will tax every gun and bullet you have. We got way more guns on our side believe that. You’re so brainwashed its sad. Just wait snowflake just wait
I keep hoping to find a reasonable person to debate and examine what I may be missing in regards to the D side of the aisle. So far nothing but irrational, uncompromising noise which is discouraging. When you say “you people” you really show how ignorant you are but then again, maybe you are from another planet.
@AmericanAndy you probably finally got your GED before I got my doctorate but who’s counting. You don’t know who you are calling stupid which makes you a fool who speaks before he knows his adversaries.
@Marty Wommack You don’t have a PhD, bud.
@AmericanAndy Lol, it seems that everybody suddenly has a doctorate degree when they’re called out for their egregious falsehoods. It’s amazing how often I see these claims thrown around, almost as though these degree are handed out like candy on Halloween. Perhaps he got his prestigious “Trump unavesity doctererate da-gree” from Trump university. Not only that, he’s so incredibly brilliant that it only took 4 lessons and three weeks to obtain it! To quote Trump, he’s like really smart.
There’s way TOO much money in politics. This needs to change, bigly.
@DanSk451 Yes, “Citizens United” passed by the 5 conservative judges and opposed by the 4 liberal justices.
politics is money money is politics so how do you take the money out of politics ?????????
@DanSk451 it was a good decision, read my previous comment. It only takes one sentence to explain why working people should be able to use their money to amplify their voice like the rabble burning down their shops have while they aren’t contributing to society.
@Xela somar because the left doesn’t work…they want the mobs to be the only ones with a voice. One day, if you ever try to actually run a business and purchase a little product called labor you will view things differently. You’d understand being poor and irresponsible is actually way easier and that businesses owners, especially small business owners right now, are one of the most commonly oppressed minorities….
@Maclain Hunter I don’t bother with cult nonsense.
You are inconsequential.
This is what we are living with, the problem is more scary than this lawsuit
I wouldn’t want to have the karma or souls of any of these corrupt bozos. A brief moment of riches and fame in exchange for an eternity of punishment. Not worth it! I’d rather be a poor, but honest, working slob.
If a handful of its art blowers mattered in his case then what more value should the hundreds of witnesses who claim election fraud have atm.
I gotta say the most shocking thing about this is that it didn’t happen in Florida.
@Mary Durham Trump is doing everything within his constitutional rights. Courts are ignoring the real election manipulation that is openly admitted…like ignoring court orders to keep spoiled or late ballots separate.
But you go ahead and SCREEEEEAAAAAMMMMM and throw #insults if that makes you feel special.
FL was part of the 4 state lawsuit is still ongoing in PA…and they signed an Amicus to support the TX lawsuit.
@Mary Durham this says a lot about your personality
@Phitzwell Thundercock election has not been called. This is a narrative that the media is trying to shut down everybody’s throat and the Liberals are coming in their panties just thinking about it. Hate to burst that bubble… But.. Biden won’t be in the White House
hardly. But you all will look like does in the headlight of a car
Man, who knew republicans where such sad little failures ^^ can’t wait to add another win to the tally. XD get over it Rumpers, you lost.
The left can keep fxcking around… they’re gonna find out what happens. 1776
@Your Arsenal What has he won so far? 1 of 51 lawsuits either dismissed or withdrawn?
Birds of a feather. All corrupt and sick from the head down. The head is sick and so is the body. It’s amazing how these people are willing to look like fools for Trump
We Won in a landslide! Cheating aside!
@D. S. That’s the best work of fiction I’ve read in quite some time. Great comic relief 👌 See you back here in a few days when you come to proclaim that Supreme court was bought out by the deep state. You know, just like the DOJ, DHS, FBI, CISA, (never mind 3 of 4 of those institutions were led by Trump appointees, must of sold out!) hundreds of Republican election officials, the Rep governors of Arizona and Georgia, every single judge in every single swing state (again including Republican judges, several of whom appointed by Trump, how is Trump putting all these deep state people into these positions??) Oh god, the list is growing daily! How very terrifying, the deep state controls everything! They’re probably watching you right now! Quick, get your teddy and hide under your blankets, the globalists, deep state and whichever other imaginary foes you can dream up are coming to get you 😉
We need a Sunshine Act for everyone who works in a government position
and drug test them ALL the time.
Bejing Biden would be going to jail, you don’t actually want that
Exactly what they want is happening, we’re all arguing, misinformed and incapable of talking it out. good job people
@mbolduc so I guess fascism is compatible with freedom? got it…..
@Cherie Hunt facts dont care about your feelings.
@Cherie Hunt You still didn’t answer who they is? The Russians? yea we know they are dividing us that’s why they installed trump.
@mbolduc You clearly don’t understand the words “Marxism” and “freedom.” Name one federal or state politician you think is a Marxist and you’ll be wrong. There are, however, many Republicans who fit at least 10 of the 14 defining characteristics of fascism. I suspect if those characteristics were shown to you without the word fascism, you’d say most of them sounded wonderfully patriotic. People like you are more jingoistic than patriotic.
@D lol
After he loses the lawsuits, Paxton should have to pay for them out of his own pocket.
@Joy Hopkins Are you saying, proudly at that, you want to circumvent our constitution, our laws and attempt to declare Trump “supreme leader” to remain in power so long as he decides? Wow. Are you also a Mussolini fan? Moreover, you can’t vote somebody into office for 20 years. I’m not sure where you got your understanding of the concept voting or term limits for that matter. Such unfathomable ignorance.
horrorfan84 waaaaah
@Joy Hopkins Lol they didn’t force but are allowing the states to respond. Dear god, your misunderstanding of our system is truly “deplorable.” We’ll see how confident you are in the coming days. I won’t continue to argue with the insane but I want you to understand I’ll be laughing at you when you come crashing back down to reality. Your fever dream is nearly over 😉
@Joy Hopkins Ok, bye bye Trump. Better?
@Joy Hopkins Why do you hate the English language so much? You should be arrested for such wanton abuse of the English language. Night school might be relatively affordable for you, no? Hopefully??
“American Exceptionalism” = Exceptionally Corrupt!
American Corruptionalisim!
Actually, America is the best country on Earth. In fact, in 2100, all other nations will bow to America.
Z Floyd pathetic…go find a bridge
Are the AGs in the seven or so other states suing also compromised?
@Scott Butler you are assuming that the SCOTUS even takes the case. I predict another unanimous one sentence denial
@Kenneth Morsee You are assuming they won’t. There’s still a lawsuit pending with 4 other states.
@Scott Butler it’s a very good assumption they won’t.
@Alejandro Gonzales Mmmm…what were you saying?
don’t forget there are still over 30 states not in the lawsuit der der der, sorry you can’t MAKE SOMEONE PRESIDENT by smacking your shoes together 3 times and saying there’s noone like trump theres noone like trump theres noone like trump. You literally want him to be a dictator…wtf is wrong with you?
Wait so is it a fair election or just getting Trump out that we’re after?
@htiJUICE Nobody seems to acknowledge that other people have different opinions. That’s the Left for ya
Mostly due to four states violating their own constitutional laws that they had in place for mail in voting, which is why Texas, and eight other states, are sueing the four, most notably, Pennsylvania.
@Solstice of Snow and how exactly did they violate their own laws?
@Hershey Lindon you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Their acts were already fishy enough to start out with, considering that the Government just gave itself power, in which there should be rules limiting the power they have, notreally expand it.
another TRUMP pardon on the way… you GOT to close this loophole….
You’re right Rachel, he’s looking for a pardon! 🤣
Just wish they would talk about the actual case instead of smears.
17 other states have signed onto this lawsuit…are you saying, in your great wisdom, that they’re all making an “absurd” attempt to assert their state’s rights in protecting the votes of their legal citizens?
***Madcow opinion***
Madcow hasn’t written up creative hit pieces on each of the other AGs, so…
So If its such a ridiculous lawsuit why has 10+ states backed it? So your saying a 1/5 or more of the US is crazy for thinking there was fraud?
@Kenneth Morsee UPS truck with 280K ballots is crazy? 216K voters in Wisconsin who don’t need to show proof of who they are is crazy? In Georgia video shows the supervisor sending everyone home and then 4 people stay behind, pull out suitcases full of ballots and begin counting all those ballots is Crazy?
Where’s the proof, evidence etc. Just prove it!!!
@D. S. Well said……
@Valorie Winn what you did not see the video, is that not enough for you, everyone told to leave and then four people start passing votes that were under a table that was set there in the morning by the same people in the video? Like Biden would say, “Come-on man”……..
@Conchita0511 Why was it not pres
*_FBI- CAN MAKE UP LIES ON US BUT IF SOMEONE GOES AFTER THEM IT’S ALL OF SUDDEN ILLEGAL…_*