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President Donald Trump demanded payback against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on his way to Texas, branding the congressman he pardoned "disloyal and ungrateful."

"To the people of Texas, I am headed your way," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Wednesday promoting Cuellar's Republican challenger, Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina. "We call that payback for a disloyal and ungrateful person, a person whose life has been saved only to go back into the clutches of the people that tried so hard to destroy him."

Trump pardoned Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, in December. The couple had been accused of taking roughly $600,000 in bribes from an oil and gas company tied to Azerbaijan's government and a Mexico City bank, Texas Public Radio reported....

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a conservative Democratic congressman facing bribery, money laundering and conspiracy charges, out of disinterested concern for the politicization of the Department of Justice under Joe Biden, Republican senator Ted Cruz claimed on Wednesday.

“The Constitution gives the pardon power exclusively to the President,” Cruz told Raw Story at the Capitol, when asked about the Cuellar pardon, which Trump announced on social media. “It's his decision how to exercise it.”

Raw Story asked if Cruz was worried, given the seriousness of the charges against Cuellar, that the Trump White House was nonetheless setting “a bad example for politicians writ large?”...

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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) has diverted over half of his 2024 campaign funds to cover legal fees as he faces charges related to allegedly accepting bribes from foreign actors in exchange for pushing policies favorable to them.

More than $784,900 of the roughly $1.5 million that Cuellar’s campaign spent in total through the end of March went to legal fees, a new OpenSecrets analysis found. ...

Donald Trump on Sunday threatened Joe Biden while blaming the current president for the recent indictment of a Democratic lawmaker who is accused of "participating in two schemes involving bribery, unlawful foreign influence, and money laundering."

The indictment of Henry Cuellar was recently announced by the DOJ, which said that he and his wife allegedly took approximately $600,000 in bribes from a fossil fuel company owned by the Azerbaijani government and an unnamed bank headquartered in Mexico City.

Trump then reacted to a Democrat being charged under a system he has previously said favors people from that political party over the GOP....

WASHINGTON — “The Squad” — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) tight knit band of progressive rabble-rousers — is still making headlines.

But lately, it’s for all the wrong reasons.

After a string of scandals, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) are both facing AIPAC-backed primary challengers this year. Bowman’s troubles include pleading guilty to pulling a fire alarm in the Capitol, over which House Republicans censured him. Bush, meanwhile, is under investigation by the FBI for paying her husband for security services....