{"id":117616,"date":"2023-08-25T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=117616"},"modified":"2023-08-25T15:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:43:50","slug":"new-evidence-submitted-to-be-used-in-ken-paxtons-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=117616","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence Submitted to Be Used in Ken Paxton&#8217;s Impeachment Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/impeachment-ken-paxton-documents-evidence\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/impeachment-ken-paxton-documents-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TX Observer<\/a>: &#8220;Late last Thursday, the Texas Senate uploaded exhibits from the state House investigators for the upcoming impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a document dump of epic proportions, comprising nearly 4,000 pages of records, ranging from blockbuster interview transcripts from marquee witnesses; emails from Paxton\u2019s friend and Austin real estate mogul Nate Paul, his attorney, and the so-called special prosecutor personally appointed by Paxton, Brandon Cammack, working in close coordination to carry out an \u201cofficial\u201d governmental investigation on behalf of Paul; records from Uber documenting the attorney general\u2019s various trips\u2014using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/impeachment-texas-ken-paxton-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a pseudonymous account that was accessed by both Paxton and Paul<\/a>\u2014to travel to and from his alleged girlfriend\u2019s Austin apartment, among other destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/senate.texas.gov\/_assets\/coi\/docs\/House-Board-of-Managers-Exhibits-Vol-1-of-3-20230815.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trove of<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/senate.texas.gov\/_assets\/coi\/docs\/House-Board-of-Managers-Exhibits-Vol-2-of-3-20230815.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/senate.texas.gov\/_assets\/coi\/docs\/House-Board-of-Managers-Exhibits-Vol-3-of-3-20230815.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evidence<\/a>\u00a0provides the clearest picture yet of the long and winding tale of alleged corruption that forms the basis of the House\u2019s case to remove Paxton from office, including his allegedly corrupt friendship with and bumbling efforts to protect Paul, which led to four of his top deputies blowing the whistle to federal authorities, their subsequent filing of a state whistleblower civil lawsuit, an ongoing FBI investigation, and, most recently, the Texas House\u2019 overwhelming vote to impeach Paxton in May partly on numerous articles stemming from this relationship, including abuse of office and bribery.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TX Observer: &#8220;Late last Thursday, the Texas Senate uploaded exhibits from the state House investigators for the upcoming impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton. It was a document dump of epic proportions, comprising nearly 4,000 pages of records, ranging from blockbuster interview transcripts from marquee witnesses; emails from Paxton\u2019s friend and Austin real&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117617,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117616\/revisions\/117617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}