Indicted. Under FBI Investigation. And Still Popular With Texas Republicans.
SAN ANTONIO — The race for Texas attorney general is asking Republicans to determine how many indictments and allegations of corruption are too many. The answer may be there is no limit — so long as the candidate has an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.
Ken Paxton, the Trump-backed attorney general, was indicted and arrested on criminal securities-fraud charges that are still pending. He has faced calls for his resignation after several of his top aides claimed he abused his office by helping a wealthy donor. And he has been serving as the state’s top lawyer while under threat of a possible new indictment, as the FBI investigates the abuse-of-office and bribery accusations.
“The voters of Texas will tolerate a great deal,” said state Sen. Kel Seliger, a moderate Republican who is a former mayor of Amarillo. “They think if somebody is ideologically in sync with them, that’s what matters. I would have thought in Texas that moral example is more important, but apparently it’s not.”
In the pre-Trump era, indictments and investigations by federal law enforcement could have been fatal to a Republican campaign. But Trump has instilled a deep mistrust in government institutions like the FBI. Paxton took the unusual step of authorizing an investigation of an FBI investigation — he appointed a special prosecutor to look into the federal probe of the wealthy donor, an Austin real estate investor named Nate Paul whose home and offices were raided by federal agents.
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