Ken Paxton
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
First of all, thanks for having me on. It's nice that you get to sit in your seat. Usually I'm sitting in your seat when you interview me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So yeah, so I've been watching John Conner, obviously, very close to the situation in Texas. And it's been disappointing, not just to me, but to our primary voters. Two years ago, three years ago, he went on stage at the Republican convention. And for 30 straight minutes, he got booed. He had just worked to pass this restrictive gun legislation, worked with Joe Biden.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
Joe Biden was congratulating President Trump, was criticizing it, saying he was a rhino. And the people of Texas were furious that he limited our gun rights and that he inflicted damage to the Second Amendment, which then the ATF used. to try to pass more regulations that I had to go sue on. So these are the types of things that have not endeared John Cornyn to the Republican voters of Texas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And it's really obvious that after 20, you said he's been there a while. He's working on 24 years in the Senate. When he finishes and he wants to be there 30, the people of Texas have had enough of 24.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So I actually already have. I've talked to several of these people and they've said, you know, we're supporting John because he's our friend. And I've asked them,
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
question why is john corner running again for his fifth term and the answer from them usually is well and it's very they pause and they're like well you know we don't know we don't actually even think he should run we've told him five terms is too many but he's our friend so we're sticking with them and we're going to spend a lot of money to beat you there is no good reason for him to run and i i don't know what it is i i haven't heard what is he going to do different
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
than what he's done in the past. And then how do we know he's going to be different? He doesn't have accomplishments that we're proud of. We do know things that he's done, including lots of spending in the Ukraine versus spending on our own border that we're not happy with. And Texas voters really care about immigration. They really care about the second amendment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And those are two things that he's fought us on and gone the other way. Those are problems for us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So I've heard that in every general election I've run in, and yet when you look at my general election results, even statewide, that's never been true. I've always performed relative to Abbott and Patrick. So, for instance, in the last election, I spent $6 million.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
I said the same thing after I went through a brutal primary with three people running against me who were all well-funded, including George P. Bush. And I went through a runoff and I overwhelmingly won that by 38 points. Then they said, well, he can't win. We got it to replace it because he didn't win the general election, which is what they always say. And then I've always won it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So this time I spent $6 million in general election. I won by 10. Dan Patrick, who's awesome, spent about 25 or so. And he won by just about the same amount. And Abbott spent, you know, 150 or more and he won by 11. So it's just not true. My numbers come out very similar. And that's always the argument that,
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
people like Cornel May, because they can't come up with another reason why they should be elected.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So I would say this. I've done this for 12 years, and I love it. And I think it's time. I think holding on to office is too long. I think you lose some of your freshness. And I think it's time for a change. I think it's time for me to change. I think it's time for John Korn to change. I think that we have people coming up the ranks that could potentially win this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And look, I can't control who wins it, but I think there will be some very good people running. And I have lots of hope that they've seen the model that we've set up and that they have a pretty good idea of how to follow that. And certainly I would be happy to give ideas of how to do that because I think we've done some amazing things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And I want an aggressive attorney general from Texas because I think it's not only good for Texas, I think it's good for the whole country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So I think it's pretty important right now to support president Trump. His agenda is something amazing. I mean, whether it's just tax cuts or whether it's his, what he's doing, even with tariffs, even with, you know, China reform, what's going on with these crazy judges that are out of control. Um, The agenda is one of the best I've ever seen, if not the best I've ever seen in my life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So there's lots of stuff to support. And I think it's very true that John Cornyn has not been that guy. I know he is suddenly. He's gotten religion, and he won't have that religion until the election's over. But I will be there from the beginning and to the end because I actually believe this stuff. It's in my heart. It's in my soul.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And I will be supportive of President Trump and everything he's doing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
Well, so I don't think he has much to respond to. He doesn't have a pass that he can go out and talk about in the Republican primary. He can talk about it in a general election because, you know, he's reached out to Democrats and moderates. But he doesn't have initiatives or things he's worked on that are good Republican issues. He
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
On the other hand, he can't really talk about the bad things he's done on guns and border and criticizing President Trump. So his campaign guarantee will be negative attacks on me. It won't work. I've been through this many times, but that is where he is going with his money. On the other hand, I will be out for the next 11 months. Our primary is March of next year, first Tuesday of March.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
I have a lot of practice in talking to Republican voters. I will be out talking to Republican voters. I will be out raising money. And I can tell you, I will raise a lot of money. And I will get my message across about what it is that I want to do that is different than what he's done and how I will oppose some of the very things that he pushed so far.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
John's not going to go rogue. He's going to be a good boy for the next year and a half. And then he'll go back to being what he is, which is a moderate to, you know, Somebody who is going to answer to D.C. as opposed to the citizens of Texas. In the end, it's the people of Texas that elect the senator from Texas. And we've elected a very good one, Senator Ted Cruz.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
They have a right to their choice. And they do not want John Cornyn. And I think the next 11 months are going to prove that. And I think the polling already shows strongly, as a Republican senator, there is no way that he should be down as an incumbent that served four terms by 25 points. And that is not my only fault.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
I have separate polls from different pollsters that are very similar to that, that are not worse, that are even a little better. So the people of Texas deserve. We're not in Vermont. We're not in Maine. We are in Texas. We deserve two very strong conservative senators who are going to go support President Trump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
Well, thank you for bringing that up. Kenpaxton.com. And you can learn about my campaign as well as contribute. Obviously, they are going to have a lot of money from Washington, and we're going to get a lot of money from just the grassroots. And that's where my money comes from. So really appreciate you mentioning that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I believe it is. And here's what happened. We had sued the Biden administration a couple of years ago. And you know, these cases, these federal cases don't happen overnight. It took us a couple of years. We sued him and we said, Congress appropriated money for the building of the wall. You are not building that wall. You're actually selling off assets. So we sued him. we won that lawsuit.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And in May, we got an injunction from a federal judge saying, you, DOJ, you, Biden administration, cannot sell any more assets off. So then I get a call from President Trump, you know, a month ago, and he said, they're selling assets off. So would you sue them? And I said, well, I don't have to if I've already done it. So I already got an order. So we go back into court.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We tell the judge, hey, they're selling off assets. We've been told they're selling off assets. We went into accounting. And before we got there, DOJ is calling us, begging us, hey, we're not selling. We swear we won't sell any more assets. They didn't say they hadn't. They said we won't sell any more. So they signed an agreement and said they wouldn't sell any more. But the judge...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
which we asked for, there's going to be an accounting and there's potential sanctions if they lied and they follow it, they did not follow that order. We don't know that yet, but we're going to know that soon now that DOJ is switching. We're going to know that soon.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I truly believe they were selling off assets in violation, not only of federal law, but in violation of a court order that we got in May saying you can't sell off assets because we were trying to protect those assets so that if Trump won, we would come, because I knew Biden would never build that wall, even if he was instructed by Congress to do so.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It is a pretty straightforward infrastructure project, but they hate it. It's some kind of symbol of, I don't know, racism or whatever, but it's not. It protects us from exactly what we've had.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Well, that would affect a lot of Republicans. I mean, my own senator would have trouble with that. John Cornyn, because he's been against the border wall saying it wouldn't work. But we all know that walls do work. They do work. And I've seen it. I've seen how it works.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I don't understand it. I've seen quotes from him. I've seen video clips from him over and over how it's not enough. It doesn't work. It's a bad idea. He is opposed to the border wall.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I know. It's really odd that he thinks it works other places, but it doesn't work in Texas. And he's sort of mocked it and said it doesn't work.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
No.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Nope. Never heard him do that. What is that about? I don't understand it. I mean, I think the Bushes had the same idea that open borders were relatively good. I don't think that he or the Bushes.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
No, I don't know why they have this view. But they, I mean, even under the Bush presidency, I don't think they took immigration seriously. The first president I've ever seen take it seriously is Donald J. Trump.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Absolutely. I think the Biden administration has indirectly funded the cartels. They have encouraged by saying no deportations on day one of his administration. they've encouraged illegal immigration, and that's a profit center for the cartels. They make $8,000 to $12,000 a person. If you just do the numbers on 14 million, that's a lot of money. They're making billions every month.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So, you know, I think about like the Texas House and what's going on there, what's gone on there for 16 years, where a small group of Republicans for power aligned themselves in the House with the Democrats so that the Speaker is elected by mostly Democrats and a few Republicans. They just did it again. Dustin Burroughs just got elected by Democrats.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
a minority Republicans after he put the rules in place that the caucus, the Republican caucus would decide who the speaker was. And when he lost that vote in caucus, he walked out, cut a deal with the Democrats and he just became speaker of the Texas house. That is for power. That is for his own personal power.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And that the Republicans that do that have traded getting good policy done, getting property tax and school choice. protecting the border, not doing impeachments of guys that just got elected. They traded that to have power. That's all it is.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Not too much. I mean, these guys, I mean, they only make $600 a month. So, you know, anything is good after that, I guess. We're pretty vulnerable that way. I think we are. And I think a lot of these people, because Texas House, you get paid $600 a month. So most people that run have to have money. You can't. Of course.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And if you don't have money, you're getting paid somewhere for something because it's impossible to live on, obviously, $600 a month. So, Everybody has to either work, and it's hard to work when you've got a job that may take a year out of every two years.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So, this goes back to George W. Bush appointed him to be a U.S. Supreme Court judge in—not U.S., but a Texas Supreme Court judge. And— When he did that, he authored an opinion that created this thing called Robin Hood, which takes from the wealthy school districts and gives to the poor, supposedly. And what that did to our system was it created a mediocre school system because it's just socialism.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Instead of just letting the wealthy school districts make their schools however they want to, we've got to take their money away. Why don't we just fund the poor school districts? It makes no sense, but...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It's about making it all equal. That's socialism. It doesn't work. It's never worked anywhere. We have no example that it actually works. And yet, John Cornyn did that for George W. Bush because George wanted to be president. He didn't want to pass a major tax increase, so he let John do it judicially. It was a 5-4 decision. John Cornyn was on the 5-4. Really? And I'm pretty sure he authored it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
This was in the late 90s. Yes. And for that... They pushed him, Rove and Bush pushed him to be the Attorney General of Texas, first Republican, actually. And then they pushed him into the U.S. Senate. So he has been pushed and funded by that group.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And fortunately, Texans have caught on to that and realized that group, whatever they say they believe, isn't really what they believe because they don't actually follow through on it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And then they can go and use that money to buy weapons from Ukraine, which we're sending that over free. So indirectly, they're part of the whole process of, one, allowing the cartels to have access to our country and allowing them to make a profit, and then to use that money to arm themselves in a significant way.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So I think it's because. People weren't as aware of what the Bushes did and what he's done, but they've become more aware because of people like you and others who have outed that. So he's never had a real problem. He had four people running against him. None of them had money. Nobody had ever run before. No one even knew who they were. It was all fake.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And he claims, you know, you got 76% of them. Of course, he had nobody running against him that I could tell you who it was. And I'm pretty involved in politics. So somebody needs to run against him this time because he has been there for what, 16 years, just in that position, count his AG, that's four years. He was Texas Supreme Court Justice.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And before that, he's been doing this a long time and he's gotten away with this. It's about time that he be held accountable because I can't think of a single thing that he's done for Texas that's good. He has no acclaim for doing things good for Texas or our country.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So I'll give you an example of what you're just saying. So right after I beat George P. Bush, who he came out and endorsed, of course, and then he made disparaging comments about me being an embarrassment to Texas. And he made some comment about me being part of Russia propaganda campaign. Oh, you're a Russian propagandist? Oh, I don't know how that happened. I'm in Texas.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I became part of the Russian propaganda because I criticized him on Ukraine. He said that you were a Russian propagandist?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Yes. That's what he said. Crazy stuff.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
which is a pretty significant margin in a primary. So we have the convention, there's 12,000 Republicans there. He and his wife walk up on stage and for 10 straight minutes, he doesn't say a word, he gets booed. For the 20 minutes that he's speaking, he never adjusts his speech. He gets booed the entire 20 minutes. He gets booed 30 minutes straight.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
i'm standing waiting to go on stage i walk away because i'm afraid of what i might say after he said these things public to me i go up and get a standing ovation so there is the people of texas know john cornyn and i don't think he'll survive another primary so how do you stop this cycle So I think in Texas it's very doable because people realize now who John Cornyn is.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We have a primary next – not this March, but the next March. So somebody needs to run against him in that primary.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Yep. So that primary – Ooh, it's imminent. It's coming. Yeah, absolutely. So he's – I don't think he's long for this Senate world.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So, I mean, I don't know. I'm running for sure. I'm looking at it probably in the next few months. I'll be talking to people around the state. But, I mean, I've run two primaries against George P. Bush and another guy, Dan Branch, who was one of George W.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
One of his close friends, but very moderate. You're a nice guy. I beat him nicer to you than he was me. I served in the House, wasn't always so nice to me. 65-35 him, he had a lot more money. Same with Bush, I beat him 68-32. So primary voters, if they're educated, will make good choices based on what you've actually done. And that was always me.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
With Dan Branch, we were in the house together for 10 years and I moved over to the Senate for two while he was in the house. And I said, don't listen to the rhetoric. Look at the record. We both have a record. Go look at the record, compare them. See if they're the same. They're not. He can say what he wants. He's running on my record. Look at his record. And that works in primaries.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I know they are, just because I saw what happened four years ago, or eight years ago, when Trump came into office. I mean, I went through, I've been in politics since Bush was in office, and And I've seen how Republicans and Democrats have dealt with immigration. They have not dealt with it effectively because they have not enforced federal law.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And the same thing with John Cornyn. I bring out what he said about Trump and how disparaging he was to Trump in 2016 and just in this last election saying he shouldn't run, he's not the right guy. I mean, John's wrong about most everything. There's very few things. He tends to side with the swamp in Washington and he does what Karl Rove tells him to do.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So that doesn't work in Republican primaries, not in Texas.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Let's be honest. He's propped up by Fox News. He has the platform. They take care of him. He can keep people like, for instance, I can't get on Fox News. He's still on Fox News. He's still on Fox News. And he's kept me off for a couple of years because when I ran against Bush. They got Bush on and took me off and all the shows I used to be on, almost all of them. Are you serious?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I know that for a fact.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Karl Rove is still on Fox. He's still on Fox. I just saw him during the inauguration. He's there a lot. I used to go in studio at the same place in Austin. I used to trade out with him. Yeah, I've been to that studio. Yeah, and he got me cut out for sure. And I know that from hosts of shows who have said, sorry, weak. They will even like, I will have a case.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They will, we will get, we will, Jesse will talk to them. I communicate to them, talk to them. They'll book me, then they'll cancel me. Then they'll go try to find another AG. They'll call the Republican, can we find another AG? Or they'll ask for somebody else in my office other than me. That was Karl Rove blacklisting me on Fox.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
He just goes around and he controls.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
No, I've been told by people you know that have shows. I know everyone there. I just don't want to out them. Yeah, no, I get it. That have told me. We can't have you. And for the last two years, I've been on Fox like maybe a couple times. I used to be on every day.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
and just the increased crime associated with just everyday crime that people see as it relates to the cartels moving into our state. And that network that they built is not just in Texas. They are building that network all over the country. And they're not gonna wanna give it up. They're making too much money on drugs, sex trafficking, other crimes, and the importation of people.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I was supposed to go on a show. There was still one host that would sort of have me. And I was supposed to go on this show. And I had two different settings to go on. And both got canceled. I was told, you got canceled from the podcast.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Yeah. Yeah. Even if it's my case. I mean, I file a case and they want another attorney general to come on and talk about it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
But that's why Karl Rove still has his platform.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
You talked about my impeachment. I came in. You were the first person I talked to about the impeachment. That was how my whole impeachment went. It was done in three days. No due process. I didn't get any information. I wasn't allowed to participate or respond all behind closed doors. And then they leak stuff to the media. That's not even true. And I've got a gag order on me and I can't talk.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
How do you survive that? It's really hard.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They convince themselves.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They convince themselves that like, I deserve it because I'm a bad person because all of this stuff is true, but none of it was proof. You know why? Because it wasn't true. But why do it behind the scenes? Because I can tell you why. So I had friends that were called into the Speaker's office, Republican House members, and they were saying, look, we need you to vote for this impeachment.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They said, well, can you just show us some evidence? Well, you have this three-hour hearing. Well, there's no evidence there. Can we see some evidence? No, you're not getting any more. can we like have a little more time to like kind of figure this out? We've only had like three days. We're going to vote on this in three days. No, we're not giving you more time.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
What about like, can we talk to the witnesses? We don't even know who they are. None of them were sworn in. We don't even know who the witnesses against him are. And they said, no, we're not going to let you do that. And they said, well, Why is it that we can't see the evidence? Why is it that we can't see the witnesses? Why is it that has to be in three days over Memorial weekend?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And they said, because if we give Ken more than three days, he'll win. That's what they told him.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
You know what I mean? Oh, absolutely. I see it all the time where people get accused of things. Then they get overwhelmed by media.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Karl Rove did that to me. He went to people and said, we know this. We know this. We know this. And they're like, well, where's the proof? I've got it somewhere.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It is a baseline. And that's why when I was in the middle of that impeachment and I had no voice, I could not respond. I'm getting beaten up every day. I told my lawyers, I know you think I'm going to resign, but I haven't told no one I'm going to resign because I'm not even allowed to talk to the media. So how could I even tell? Because there were printing stories I'm going to resign.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I said, I want you to know, I don't care how bad it gets. I don't care what they say. These senators are going to, I'm going to make them vote. They're going to, I got elected four and a half months ago by the people. Let them vote me out. If they do, they will be accountable to voters, but I will not give in no matter what.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
How many times? Yeah. Gosh, I mean, we had 106 cases. We won over 75% of our cases, but several months that we, I can't even keep track of it. 106. A lot.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
You know how I know they were there? I'm convinced that the Biden administration went to the House, Texas House, with the Democrats, said we want him impeached. And then Biden sent two lawyers from the Department of Justice to help the General Investigating Committee, which was five-member committee, three Republicans, two Democrats. They had four lawyers.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Two of them came from the Justice Department. Just randomly showed up to help. Was the Biden administration involved? I don't have proof, but I'm not stupid.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Oh, absolutely. He will do whatever he can to stop. He does whatever he can to stop conservatives in Texas in general. Not just in Texas, nationally. His fundraising, everything he's got to help Republicans, he goes into primaries to get Republicans, to take out conservatives. He is not there raising money to go after Democrats. He's there to go after Republicans.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I would not surprise me at all. Wouldn't surprise me at all. Not at all. And the reason they want to go after those two is because they're effective. Oh, of course. They're courageous. Of course. And they're going to change America if they're given the opportunity.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Or California. Well, here's one of the biggest problems we have. We have it in Texas. We have it in other parts of the country. George Soros has figured this out. He's gone in and elected DAs in Democratic counties. Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio. So 70% of our population controlled by Soros DAs. He went in and knocked off Democratic DAs.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
and that he'll get something done and by getting done it's like fighting the corruption that controls washington the thing that's most missing in in political leadership is is not knowledge of what to do or how to do it it's courage and the thing that bobby kennedy has he would he will take on the democrats his own family and the food the big food that's exactly right and they know that and that's what they're afraid of so they have to stop them
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Unafraid. He's unafraid.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Absolutely. And it should be open. We should be transparent. We should tell the world like who's working against us because they've done all this and they try to do this in secret. And then they go back and tell their constituents, well, yeah, I did my best. No, they did not do their best. They were behind the scenes. This is John Cornyn's career. This is what these people do.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Transparency, just like my impeachment, the transparency of a trial actually helped me because the truth comes out. Transparency is what we need in government and we don't get it with people like the people you're talking about.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They hate him for that. And they hate him because he also is courageous and he doesn't. His agenda is the American people.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I'm strongly considering it. I haven't made a decision. I have the spring to kind of work it out. And, you know, I'm still doing my job. I had a lot to do under Biden before he left. It's a lot easier with Trump because we're working cooperatively instead of having to be adversarial and everything. So, you know, I'll be looking at this spring and seeing what people see.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Because we can't get elected Republicans in those areas. So he went and knocked off DAs who were actually prosecuting and replaced them with Soros DAs. Now, our legislature could fix that. They haven't. They could come in and say, AG, you have concurrent jurisdiction to go after these crimes. But because they haven't done that, crime is proliferating in all of our cities.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I'm going to travel the state and get a feel for it. But my sense already is that John Cornyn is not loved in my state at by Republicans. He may be loved by the Democrats, but he is not loved by the Republicans.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
If we can preserve it, we can, just like with this thing I told you about America, if we do the right things and we take care of the people in our state and we give them opportunity, we give them a good education, which the state is responsible for, if we provide opportunities for their children, if we provide just freedom to go be the best you can be and not get in their way with regulations and taxes,
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We give them we will be a Republican state because what it doesn't matter what your skin color is. If you get a chance to be successful, you're going to vote the people that gave it.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Hispanics are conservative socially. They are hardworking. They are family people. I totally agree. And they want to be successful, too.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Yeah, and look, Trump is winning counties in Texas that have never been won before. And we are having more and more Democrat, Hispanic politicians move to our party. And their positions are not changing. They're just realizing that the Democratic Party, allowing all this illegal immigration and hurting their areas and all those types of things, they don't want that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
That's why the whole DA thing that I was telling you about is so important. I remember when I was coming into the attorney general's office, Abbott served as long as serving AG in Texas history, 12 years, becoming governor. I'm now about to tie that, but it was, he was the one that told me the most important,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Financial crimes, other types of crimes, because they will not prosecute crimes. And so the cartels have an open invitation. So do other cartels from other countries. So if you go out to our financial crime unit in Tyler, they will tell you about all these crime groups coming in from other countries because they know they can get away with it. And our legislature so far has not fixed that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
There's powerful elected officials in the country, Texas district attorneys, because they can do whatever they want. They can allow any crime they want. They can let their friends commit crimes. And there's nothing that can be done to them. They are free to do what they want.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
No. I agree with that. And I think you're already seeing it on the board. He's already sent federal troops down there. And I think as long as it's following federal law, I know that Trump is going to be aggressive at protecting this country.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
To me, that should, I mean, like in our state, we banned them. You cannot have a sanctuary city, and we can remove people from office that put that in place.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
can states just say we're going to ignore federal law i think we had a civil war over that didn't we no it it as long as the federal law is constitutional and it is not infringing upon states rights right you know every federal law is is correct right but the ones that are that that are correct then yes they have it has to be followed we're we're you know these are the borders of the nation yes right so what states do with immigration affects the other 49 any individual state exactly right
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We sued them specifically over letting criminals into this country, known criminals, and they fought us on it. They fought us on a very, yes, we are in litigation over whether the Biden administration can purposely bring criminals. And of course, all these countries were emptying their prisons to get rid of their bad people from all over the world. And Biden say, come on in.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
That's when I say evil. Like, I don't believe they were trying to do good for America. You cannot do that. And tell me you are trying to help America.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Look, I've seen Donald Trump do things that I never thought could be done. He said he's going to do it. I think it's, you're not going to get every one of them, but I think Tom Holman, I love that guy. He, I think there's going to be a real serious effort to get as many out as possible. And that's really all you can do.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
But I think it's, I think it will be a success in the end because they are going to One, you've got to stop the bleeding, right? We've been bleeding profusely. And then second, start moving. Don't accept the fact that these people came in here illegally and just let them stay.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I already know the Democratic AGs. I mean, I know the game plan. And I- What's the game plan? The game plan is to sue Trump and stop him at every turn legally. Go to liberal judge, try to get an injunction, and then, you know, slow, just slow it down. So I know, I think California AG already, they've already allocated 25 million to this fight. So I- To stop Trump from deporting criminals.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And to stop his agenda in every possible way. So the Democratic attorney generals are going to be suing and trying to stop all of this. The good thing is, I've got one of my guys that was my offensive coordinator to sue the Biden administration. If he gets confirmed, he'll be in a strategic position and he knows exactly the game plan and how to deal with it.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So one of the reasons I didn't want to leave last time, one is I don't want to be forced out. I didn't want to step away under their terms because I just thought it was wrong. That's the spirit. Second was I ran against three people that I just thought would be horrible for that job. They didn't know what they were doing.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
That's a very good question. I find that DAs have, they have more power in Texas than any elected official I've ever seen because they're not accountable to anybody. If they commit a crime, no one can prosecute them. If it's a state crime, they'd have to prosecute themselves. And they can allow any crimes in their area. And they can go after, in Texas, it is so easy to get an indictment.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
There are certainly people that will run that, I mean, there are lawyers who've never practiced law that want that job because they're in politics. That's not the right way. I want somebody who knows how to practice law, that understands the law. And yes, there are a couple of people that I know that could run and that I think might run.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Otherwise, I'd have a hard time walking away from it because I don't want to give, this is such a crucial position really for the entire country. The Texas Attorney General has the largest Republican office with the most resources and has the most ability to go fight. We can attract talent. And so we have a lot of ability to take DOJ straight up.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
That's why we've run up one over, you know, three fourths of our cases, because we can fight them toe to toe.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It's exactly right. What is that? It's very strange. So this group, Texas for Lawsuit Reform, used to take a lot of that. They would funnel their money through them, so it wasn't them directly funding. And that's the group that spent, you know, 10 million recruiting the Supreme Court justice who was a DEI person. As it turns out, that's how we exposed that. And she blew up.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
That's who they supported. I don't totally understand it.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Here's part of what I think happened. I think that when I ran against Dan Branch, he was W's one of his best friends. Of course. I knew Dan Branch. He was not, his deal was always this. I've spent 10 years with him. I would say, hey, we need to do this. This is the right thing to do. He goes, man, what are the optics here? I'm like, who cares what the optics are? This is the right thing to do.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It was always the optics. How does it look? And his voting record, you can look at, is not consistently what most voters, most Republican voters would want, but it was for Highland Park.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Yes. And same with you were talking about River Oaks in Houston.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
You just walk in, you can tell the grand jury anything you want to. You can lie. Once you have the indictment, you've got it. There's no getting out of it. And so I think a lot of our politicians are afraid of their DAs, even if they're liberal Democrats.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
The same thing happened. What the hell? It's the same thing with Trump. People had, I mean, I don't know.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I was at his announcement at Mar-a-Lago. You know, elected officials were there to support him that first. There were lots of regular people there. Me and Troy Nels at the very first announcement. Everybody then was like thinking it might be somebody else and no one wanted to tell you. They weren't sure because you had these indictments and... It's the same thing with Trump.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
If you actually go out and do the hard things, then you're controversial. And then they attack you for being, the media attacks you.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And then people go, well, you know, we need to see. And I'm like, okay, you don't want Trump because he's controversial. That means you don't want somebody to actually get something done. The people that aren't controversial are the people that don't get anything done. The media doesn't attack them. And so then all these people are like, oh, I just don't like his tweets, you know, blah, blah, blah.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And I'm like, I care about what he gets done.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I think you've hit it because those people, even those people are affected by inflation, right? Everything is more expensive.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
No, it's totally right. The average American and even above average American feels all of those negative effects every day. If you're a billionaire, I just...
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
But if we don't get control of this in our state, in other states, and give somebody like the Attorney General, I'm not going to be there forever, give that authority so that there's another way to prosecute when the Soros DAs, and Soros has figured it out, but the Republicans have not.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
You don't care what it costs to fill up your gas can. You don't even think about it.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Well, those are the people that elect me. If you look at my campaign finance reports, I usually have a massive number of people giving, but at a lot lower level than some of the other statewide officials. The numbers are just staggering.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I raise less money, but my contributions from the number of people I get, I think I had the last report, maybe I'm off on this, maybe it was 1.8 thousand contributors in six months. Well, I don't think anybody comes close to that, but it's not the million dollar checks. I don't get million dollar checks. I have a much lower...
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
But I love it because I like the fact that the people as a group are helping me.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
That's who I'm beholden to, those people.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
he scares them for the same reason you scare them because you mean it and they're like ah this is embarrassing maybe i can't fully control it i'm not sure i'm for this part of the problem is they all talk to each other and they all get their ideas from like each other it's just almost too inbred they don't get they don't get down to talk to the people that you're that you and i are talking about they don't know them they are not around them they don't live with them so they don't feel it it's part of what your original point was they just don't know these people if they knew those people
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Trump was the first president to use the force of our federal laws, which are good and designed to protect us, whether it was Romania, Mexico, or whether it was Title 42, or it was stopping catch release, basic common sense things like building a wall. Those things work. They just absolutely work.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I think, like you said, they're not bad people. I think if they can connect with people that are not billionaires instead of just with each other, it would help them.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It's called perspective.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Well, all I can tell you is I've been statewide for 12 years and I've won my closest primary runoff when there weren't, you know, four people in the race was 65-35. The last one was better, 68-32. So, I just go to the people and not, I usually get outspent. As long as I can be within like two to one spending, I have a really good chance of winning a primary.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And I think anybody that whole is consistent on views that are, that take care of their constituents, that's the key to winning is take care of your people, care about them.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They're afraid of the DAs. The DAs come in and lobby, and everybody's afraid of their own DA, that they'll get indicted if they do it. There's just that power, because to get an indictment in Texas, you don't have to have, there's no recording of it. It's only one side of the story. And if they lie and they get the indictment, there's no remedy.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It's the same problem. People like that were taking care of themselves. They were not actually looking out for the people they said they were looking out for. And then they leave them in a terrible situation. They're not better off. What Donald Trump, supposedly the guy that doesn't like those people... When he's finished, all categories of people, black, white, Hispanic, are better off.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
That seems like a good thing, right? I know.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So, you know, my first term was about stopping Obama. And so I think in two years that he was there, I've seen him 27 times. Now I stepped it up a little bit with Biden, but we had four years with Trump. And the reason I ran the second term was to deal with exactly that issue. I saw big tech. And I saw big corporations and people felt powerless because all their information is being taken.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They have no control over it. They're being censored. And I'm like, how do I solve this? So I went out to Palo Alto. I spent like a year of my life going out there, talking to professors, talking to lawyers who were tech experts. And we ended up putting together many lawsuits, several against Google, several against Facebook.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We sued Facebook because there's a Texas law that says you cannot steal somebody's face, take somebody's face or their voice without their permission. And then once you've taken it, you have a certain amount of time, a reasonable period of time to keep it. And then you have to destroy it and you can't sell it without their permission. Well, guess what? Meta, now Meta. They were doing it.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They just did it anyway. So we sued them. And we got the largest settlement between a state and a business ever, $1.4 billion. We have sued Google, I think five times. We've won two of those cases. We had two settlements, but the three biggest are coming. One of them. is about the same thing that Meta did. They stole our faces.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Another was about incognito, where they told people, by the way, you go into this incognito, you sign up for this, we will not track you. Lie, they tracked us anyway. That's a deceptive trade practice in text, where they tell you one thing and do another. They lied, and they're so big, and they make so much money, they just think they can win everything. Well, the final one was,
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
This is one that everybody thought was crazy, but we did it. And now then DOJ filed a copycat case under Biden actually, where they, where Google controls 97% of the ad market and they destroy the competition. If you're competing and we believe they cut a deal with Facebook to keep them out of it, pay them off.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
and they destroy you if you're small enough, they buy you if you're big enough, and they cut a deal if you're super big. And all of that's illegal under antitrust law. So we, in April, we are going to trial in Texas. They delayed me for two years by forcing me into what's called a multi-district litigation.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And I got put in New York, but we got a piece of legislation stuck on a bill that got us back out of that. So we're back in Texas. So we are going to take on the big tech companies. We're taking on General Motors. Because General Motors would sell you a car and they wouldn't tell you that their OnStar system, when you signed up for it, was tracking all of your driving.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And then they're selling that to insurance companies. And then you get canceled and your insurance goes up because they're tracking every turn of your car, what time you're driving, how many miles. They don't tell you. That's a deceptive freight practice. And of course, we sued Pfizer for lying to us about the vaccine.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
There's no consequence to the DA, and there's no remedy for the victim of that lie. You are going to trial. If somehow you could find out what happened in that secret grand jury proceeding, which I have before, it doesn't matter. You can go to judge and say, they lied. You still are indicted and you're still at risk of going to prison.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Maybe just living in lanais, you know?
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So that is the reason. I saw that if we didn't step in soon, and I didn't see anybody else doing it, DOJ wasn't doing it. I didn't see other states doing it. So that's why I ran the second time. My mission was... If we don't stop this now, they make so much money. They just buy their way out of everything. So they get sued by the European Union. They just pay 2 billion.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They just jack up their price. When you're making $130 billion a year, that's just a minor little tax, right, for Google. So that is why I didn't just, I'm not just doing this for money. I'm asking for restructuring of Google. I don't want them to be able to do this to us anymore. They need to divest things so that there is competition in the marketplace. I'm not, I am totally free market.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
But one company that controls 97% of the market and then destroys competition, that is not good for consumers. And that's why we have antitrust laws. So if we don't stop them now, they'll control all our speech.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We do. You'd never know it. We brought them back. And by the way, DOJ copied our Google case. Exactly. Biden did.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
There's hope. And I think the fact that you see, after we settled with Mark Zuckerberg, he's shown up at Trump. So he spent, what, 400 million trying to beat Trump last time? You're seeing these CEOs come in. They're trying to keep their profit motive going. And it's hard to get anything done in Congress because they give so much money.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
But I think the state AGs and hopefully DOJ with Pam Bondi are key to making sure that they play fair. Look, go make billions. I don't care. I want you to. Go make a lot of billions. I want American companies to do well all over the world. But play fair and allow consumers choices. Don't destroy choice.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And you might be in prison. You might be in front of a jury that doesn't know the truth and you go to jail or you're in a democratic county, you might go to jail on something that they made up.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
These are super companies, right? Companies are bigger than most countries.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And I think that arrogance that we talked about in politics.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It happens in business. And so not only do they want to control every market and control every transaction on the internet, but they also want to tell you what to say and what you can say on their platforms. And then they tell you they're not censoring, but they are.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And so even with the Pfizer case, where we went in and sued them, we sued them not just for lying about the effectiveness of the vaccine, which they did do. But secondly, for trying to censor people once they found out that their vaccine didn't work.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And then if you happen to not participate in their little scheme with the vaccine, then you lose your job. Right.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It's pretty unfair. And I actually, it's crazy because then there's no incentive for them to test it. They didn't test the vaccine. They don't have to. Why would they? They test it for like six days. Well, they're fully indemnified. There's nothing you can do to them. So we got actually sued Pfizer over the vaccine.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We got dismissed by a federal judge who said we didn't have because of that federal law. Our state laws don't apply. I don't think that's right. So we've appealed to the Fifth Circuit saying, wait a minute, they have their federal laws. But our state law, if you deceive someone, you lie to them. That is a violation of state law. Who cares what the federal immunity thing is?
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It has nothing to do with our state laws. And that's our argument.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I always tell people they want me to go. Why don't you do something? Why don't you do something more? I said, well, I am, but they didn't give me any guns. They just gave me like lawyers.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Appreciate it.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I think there is a fear and there is this lobby of it. These DAs have so much power. Otherwise, why would they allow Soros to control the major cities And it's obvious that they're not prosecuting crimes. They won't even prosecute shoplifting. If you have a free ride, as long as you take $750 a day in Dallas County, whatever the number is, and you go to different stores, you can do that every day.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And the DA there said, we will not prosecute you.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Soros, that's exactly what he wants to do. There's no political goal here. It's just destabilization. Right. And it's so easy. It is literally so easy to do that. And he also, I believe, got control of our Court of Criminal Appeals, which is our highest court. We have a bifurcated system in Texas. We have the Texas Supreme Court. That's the final appeal in civil.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
and the Court of Criminal Appeals, but no one knew who they were. And suddenly they strike down a law that directed me to prosecute voter fraud. And they took it away just by saying, oh, it's unconstitutional because you're in the executive branch and separation of power says you can't be in court. How insane is that?
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And just what he's done in the first couple of days is significant in changing where Biden was taking us.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So I've had to go run three, I'm trying to take that court back, but right now I can't even prosecute voter fraud, which opens us up to unfair elections in Texas, which I was prosecuting plenty of voter fraud before that happened.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
so who who's supposed to prosecute voter fraud the soros da's so that's where we're at in texas so that's why i ran this is a nine-member court six-year terms they waited till two days after the filing deadline to announce their decision this is a 1951 statute that has thousands of cases of precedent and they came up with this insane idea that it was unconstitutional for the attorney general to be in court because i'm in the executive branch
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
If that's true, every AG in the country is violating the Constitution. So that was a rationale. I had to wait two years. I recruited three people to take out the three people that were up. So we've replaced three. We've got one good one on there, but we're still down 5-4. So until we fix those things in Texas, we're at risk.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They don't go after crime in general. They do political crimes, but they generally are not there. They don't do their jobs. They don't prosecute. Even when people get killed. Hit and miss, hit and miss. But they're not, the message from Soros is let as much crime go as possible.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
It's just his money. It doesn't take very much. To elect a DA in a Travis county, which is Austin. You're in a Democratic primary. It doesn't take that many votes. I was working with a DA there who was a Democrat. I didn't agree with her on everything, but she was doing her job. He spends a little bit of money, takes her out, and suddenly now I've got a DA who won't prosecute anything.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Same in Bear County, which is San Antonio. I worked with a DA a lot in Bear County, a guy named Nikola Hood. His brother is now converted to Republican. He's a state rep. He was awesome to work with. And he was a Democrat. He was a Democrat. He did his job. Guess what? Soros replaced him with money.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
So that's what, it doesn't take him that much money and controls our whole situation with crime and controls our judicial system, at least on the criminal side. And we're sitting here letting it happen in Texas and other states.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Disgusting. I mean, the guy's done more to, I mean, as far as I know, there are not many people in the world that have done more harm to our country. And he's being applauded by Joe Biden. It's not surprising because Joe Biden has the same motivations. I mean, what did Joe Biden do that was good?
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
And the reason I say that is because you would think that randomly he would have done something good if it weren't purposeful. He would have had something economically, internationally, the border, something would have been right, right? Just randomly.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
The bell curve tells you he would have had something good. He didn't have anything good. It was all on the other end of the curve, the downside of the curve, which was harm to Americans. That cannot be accidental.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
i truly believe that this and this started i think with president obama first president i believe they didn't love america they really thought we were a bad country that thought we were racist and that we deserved to be taken down to another level and i think they operate under this idea that we're a bad country there were bad people and that we we don't deserve this and they fundamentally don't believe in what was created here i i truly believe that and they want to destroy it take it down dismantle because they think it's bad they think we're bad
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Do you remember the contempt that Obama said? They cling to their religion and their guns and their God. there is contempt for that, what the founders put in place, a bunch of white racists who had slaves. And so that permeates his view of America. And yet that's not, there's no excuse for slavery. We messed up in that. We fixed it.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We were moving in the right direction, but his view is we're broken because of that. And therefore we deserve to be dismantled because we don't- It's not about that.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
All I know is it seems like the things they focus on do the greatest harm to America.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
They do not have an abiding love. Look, I didn't like Jimmy Carter as president. I think he did a good job, but he didn't have a hatred for this country. I don't think so. I don't think he did. I think we've had a lot of mediocre to bad presidents who still...
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Yes. We as states don't have much authority to stop illegal immigration, but the federal government has that authority. And by, by designating these, these cartels as terrorist organization, now the military, our military force can be used to against them rather than just using, you know, border patrol and, and leaving the states subject to the cartels, you know, crimes.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
didn't want the country to be just dismayed but i think it started with obama biden didn't know what he was doing he was being told by others he wasn't competent and that this was the third presidency of president obama and he didn't have to worry about being popular anymore because he limited himself a little bit because he wanted to get reelected he didn't care if joe biden got reelected you think it's over for obama
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
I think it's been impacted and affected. It could be. If we continue the momentum, we don't mess this up. If we get caught up in not focusing on the best things for America, he can come right back in. If we don't take care of the American people, and make that our number one focus. What's best for the American people?
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
If we stay on that track, we have a really good chance of being successful for a long time. If we lose sight of that and we start worrying about our power and our- I agree. Once we start taking care of ourselves, then they have a chance back in because the American people will see that.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
The Presbyterians actually had that right when they set this government up. It was based on the depravity of men. The reason they wanted three branches of government that made it so frustrating to get things done is because they didn't trust people in power.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
We all have this pull towards.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Right.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
You know what I mean? Like all of it. Yeah. I think you got it right in your speech at the Bible Museum during the inauguration about humility and realizing your need for God's work in your life. And without that, we all have a tendency to go down that path.
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Ken Paxton: How Soros Protects Drug Cartels, Being Blacklisted by Fox News, and the Laken Riley Act
Oh, yeah. That's what we all convince ourselves. Whatever we're doing, that we're doing this, and we tell ourselves, well, this is really good because we are off base many times. It's so true.