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The Houston Chronicle reports:
A $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that passed the Senate overnight has sparked a battle between two of Texas’s most prominent Republicans, with Attorney General Ken Paxton calling U.S. Sen. John Cornyn an “America Last RINO” and Cornyn raising Paxton’s ongoing legal troubles.
Paxton went after Cornyn on social media early Tuesday for supporting the foreign aid bill, writing it is “unbelievable that [Cornyn] would stay up all night to defend other countries borders, but not America.”
Paxton is accused of encouraging investors in 2011 to invest in a technology startup without disclosing that he was being paid by the firm for those referrals. He has pleaded not guilty and the case is expected to go to trial this year.
Read the full article. I can’t embed Paxton’s followup tweet because he’s blocked me, but it reads, “Unsurprisingly, America Last RINO @JohnCornyn has once again joined hands with the Biden administration to fund and prioritize foreign wars over the national security crisis at the southern border.”
Ken, your criminal defense lawyers are calling to suggest you spend less time pushing Russian propaganda and more time defending longstanding felony charges against you in Houston, as well as ongoing federal grand jury proceedings in San Antonio that will probably result in… https://t.co/6dfvvqJSfV
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) February 13, 2024