{"id":2026400,"date":"2023-09-08T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T01:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-impeachment-whistleblower-accused-of-being-mean-spirited-insincere\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T21:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T01:15:48","slug":"ken-paxton-impeachment-whistleblower-accused-of-being-mean-spirited-insincere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-impeachment-whistleblower-accused-of-being-mean-spirited-insincere\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton impeachment: Whistleblower labeled as malicious and insincere."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fken-paxton-impeachment-whistleblower-accused-of-being-mean-spirited-insincere%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2026400&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>AUSTIN,\u2063 Texas \u2014 Day Four of the Impeachment Trial \u200cof Ken Paxton: Explosive Testimony Continues<\/h2>\n<p>Day four of \u2062the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney \u200bGeneral Ken Paxton rounded out the week with gripping testimony from four state officials who had reported their boss to the\u2063 FBI.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Former deputy assistant\u2062 attorney general \u2062Ryan Vassar,\u200c the \u200cthird witness,\u2062 picked back up where he\u2062 left off\u2063 Thursday evening and attempted to explain why he\u2063 and others\u200c believed Paxton had committed a slew of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/malliotakis-adams-engaged-in-mixed-messaging-on-crime-by-praising-manhattan-d-a-well-see-if-it-was-all-rhetoric\/\" title=\"Malliotakis: Adams Engaged in 'Mixed Messaging' on Crime by Praising Manhattan D.A., We'll See if 'It Was all Rhetoric'\">white-collar crimes<\/a> to help an \u2063Austin real estate developer, Nate Paul.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paxton faces 16 articles of\u2062 impeachment and\u2062 was absent again Friday as the panel continued to hear witness testimony.<\/p>\n<h3>Vassar \u200cReturns to Trial with a Changed Point of View<\/h3>\n<p>Vassar returned to the witness stand Friday morning, determined to clear up a mistake he made during his Thursday testimony.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vassar said he did have \u200c&#8221;evidence&#8221;\u200c at the time that he reported \u200cPaxton to the \u2062FBI in late 2020, despite telling the Senate jury that he\u2063 had &#8220;no \u2062evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The absence of\u200c documents \u2063is the evidence I was referring to,&#8221; Vassar told Paxton&#8217;s defense lawyer J. Mitch Little on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>House prosecutor Rusty Hardin then asked\u2064 Vassar if he had\u2064 brought his &#8220;brain,&#8221; &#8220;experience,&#8221; and &#8220;knowledge&#8221; to\u200d the FBI meeting \u200bas evidence. \u2064Vassar said yes, that was the nonphysical evidence he presented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you realize in the legal world that is evidence?&#8221;\u200c Hardin said sarcastically, \u200dsiding with the witness.<\/p>\n<p>Defense paints\u2063 crying witness as\u200c insincere, mean<\/p>\n<p>Little questioned whether Vassar was truly sad \u200cabout losing his job after going to the FBI. Vassar \u2064had teared up when Little asked about Paxton calling him a &#8220;rogue&#8221; employee but suggested he was not as sad as he appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Little pointed\u200c to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-paxton-impeachment-whistleblower-accused-of-being-mean-spirited-insincere\/\" title=\"Ken Paxton impeachment: Whistleblower labeled as malicious and insincere.\">private text message conversations<\/a> \u200cwhere Vassar \u200band his colleagues\u200c made jokes about the\u200c situation \u2064and \u2062made fun of Paxton.<\/p>\n<p>The defense counsel painted the whistleblowers\u2064 as heartless after dragging Paxton\u2062 through the mud.<\/p>\n<p>One text sent \u2064to\u2062 Vassar\u200b and others from then-deputy attorney \u200cgeneral James \u201cBlake\u201d\u200c Brickman called\u200b Paxton a \u201cpathological liar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Deputy Attorney General \u2063for Criminal Justice Mark Penley responded with a sarcastic comment that Paxton was not \u201call about\u2063 the people\u201d \u200c\u2014 rather \u201call about\u2063 himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked how he felt\u200b about his text threads\u200b being exposed to the world, Vassar downplayed \u2064it and said, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say that any of us\u2063 are concerned that it&#8217;s being\u2062 discussed here today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paxton&#8217;s top cop warned him of &#8216;criminal&#8217; Paul<\/p>\n<p>David Maxwell, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garland-on-if-illegal-border-crossing-should-still-be-a-crime-if-hell-prosecute-i-dont-know\/\" title=\"Garland On If Illegal Border Crossing Should Still Be A Crime, If He\u2019ll Prosecute: \u2018I Don\u2019t Know\u2019\">top law enforcement officer<\/a>\u2063 who reported to\u200b Paxton, revealed that his \u200cboss brought him to meet\u2062 with Paul on three \u200doccasions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I \u200ddid not want to meet with Nate Paul \u200cand expressed my concerns\u2062 about \u2062that to Jeff Mateer \u200c(former \u2063first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-rfk-jr-to-testify-at-a-house-subcommittee-hearing-on-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government\/\" title=\"LIVE: RFK Jr testifies on 'weaponization of federal government' at House hearing.\">assistant attorney\u2062 general<\/a> under Paxton),&#8221; said Maxwell, \u200cthe former director of law enforcement at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-publishes-heavily-edited-probe-of-exonerated-general\/\" title=\"Mexico Publishes Heavily Edited Probe of Exonerated General\">attorney general&#8217;<\/a>s\u200c office. &#8220;He said he was getting a lot of pressure from \u2064General \u2063Paxton to do this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell, with five decades of\u2064 experience as a police officer, warned his boss that Paul was nothing more\u2062 than a \u201ccriminal\u2064 and we should not be associated with him,&#8221; despite Paul&#8217;s \u2064pleas for the state official to investigate federal investigators after they raided\u2062 his home.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell emphasized that getting \u200cinvolved in Paul&#8217;s separate federal \u2063investigation \u2064would only bring \u2063legal troubles for the attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled telling Paxton that if\u2062 he was \u201cto create this investigation and follow through with it, [it] would be\u2062 obstruction of justice and interfering \u2062with a federal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lt. Gov.\u2064 Dan Patrick adjourned the trial early \u200dFriday evening. The Senate \u200dwill reconvene at 9 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The fourth day of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s impeachment trial concluded with testimony from four state officials who had reported him to the FBI. Ryan Vassar, a former deputy assistant attorney general, continued his testimony from Thursday evening, providing further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2026401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}