Interview: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Paxton Impeachment Trial
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Read more about the impeachment: https://thetexan.news/paxton_impeachment/
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick joined The Texan’s senior reporter Hayden Sparks to discuss the recent acquittal of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
“There is some truth in this, that it was orchestrated from the beginning and that members were coerced to vote. That’s true — in the House,” said Patrick. “Not in the Senate. It was the House.”
Discussing his remarks at the end of the trial when he sharply criticized the way the House acted during the impeachment process, Patrick explained, “The reason I made my remarks on the dais before I adjourned was this: it needed to be in the historic record because 50 or 100 or 150 years from now, no legislator is going to come back and look at this interview or any other interview I’ve done or any TV interview that anyone’s done.”
“We weren’t perfect, but I wanted history to reflect that this House under this speaker, under that investigative committee, they totally ignored past precedent, totally ignored due process, totally ignored fairness,” said Patrick.
In addition to discussing the process of the impeachment trial, Patrick also weighed in on the political ramifications and how the trial might affect elections next year.