{"id":2518523,"date":"2025-12-07T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuellar-says-he-doesnt-vote-party-after-trump-cries-betrayal-following-pardon\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:25:03","slug":"cuellar-says-he-doesnt-vote-party-after-trump-cries-betrayal-following-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuellar-says-he-doesnt-vote-party-after-trump-cries-betrayal-following-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuellar says he doesn&#8217;t &#8216;vote party&#8217; after Trump cries betrayal following pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fcuellar-says-he-doesnt-vote-party-after-trump-cries-betrayal-following-pardon%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=2518523&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--><p>rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from texas, responded to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s criticism after Cuellar decided to seek reelection as a Democrat following a presidential pardon from Trump. Cuellar described himself as a highly bipartisan lawmaker who does not vote strictly along party lines, emphasizing his identity as an American and Texan before a Democrat, quoting President Lyndon B. johnson. He expressed willingness to work with the Trump administration and called himself a &#8220;conservative Democrat.&#8221; Trump had publicly condemned Cuellar&#8217;s choice to remain with the Democratic Party, threatening there woudl be &#8220;no more Mr. Nice guy.&#8221; Cuellar and his wife were previously indicted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-democratic-lieutenant-governor-resigns-after-arrest\/\" title=\"New York ...ic Lieutenant Governor Resigns After Arrest\">charges including bribery<\/a> and money laundering,accusations tied to foreign entities. Cuellar claimed that the Biden Justice Department weaponized the legal system against him, notably due to his criticism of immigration policies. He is the first Democrat pardoned by Trump in his second term.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Cuellar says he doesn&rsquo;t &lsquo;vote party&rsquo; after Trump cries betrayal following pardon<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2424673\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) described himself as &ldquo;probably the most bipartisan individual&rdquo; in response to President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3909795\/trump-anti-competition-food-affordability\/\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> questioning his &ldquo;loyalty&rdquo; for remaining a Democrat after the president pardoned him.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar drew Trump&rsquo;s ire on Sunday when he announced he would seek reelection as a Democrat, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3905367\/trump-pardons-house-democrat-henry-cuellar\/\">days after he and his wife received a presidential pardon<\/a> following bribery and other charges. Trump posted a lengthy Truth Social statement <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3909816\/trump-cuellar-loyalty-democrat-reelection-pardon\/\">condemning Cuellar&rsquo;s decision to remain with the &ldquo;Radical Left Scum&rdquo;<\/a> and warned there would be &ldquo;no more Mr. Nice guy!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3909871\/omar-trump-somali-minnesota-community\/\">Omar hits Trump over &#8216;unhealthy obsession&#8217; with Minnesota&#8217;s Somali community<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3909576\/henry-cuellar-blames-biden-doj-for-weaponization-against-him\/\">Henry Cuellar blames Biden DOJ for weaponization against him<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3909022\/marjorie-taylor-greene-misses-house-votes-resignation\/\">Marjorie Taylor Greene plays hooky with House resignation in sight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Look, I&rsquo;m a Democrat. I&rsquo;m probably one of the most, if not the most, bipartisan Democrat, and as I told some of my Republican friends on the House floor, I vote better than some of the Republicans in the Republican caucus, and they agree with me,&rdquo; Cuellar said when asked if he would swap parties on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3268540&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=052da98abe40d238f3a33c5449b340af\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I just feel that, you know, I follow the words of President LBJ where he said many years ago, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m an American, I&rsquo;m a Texan, and I&rsquo;m a Democrat in that order.&rsquo; And I think anybody that puts party before their country is doing a disservice to their country,&rdquo; Cuellar said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar then responded to Trump&rsquo;s statement by saying he &ldquo;prayed for the president&rdquo; and the Trump family this morning, and says he doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;vote party.&rdquo; He again identified himself as a &ldquo;conservative Democrat&rdquo; and expressed openness to working with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I sit on defense appropriations, I sit on homeland appropriations, and if I can work and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >find common ground<\/a>, then I certainly want to do that,&rdquo; Cuellar said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3909057\/democrats-2026-momentum-republican-sabotage\/\"><strong>DEMOCRATS HEAD INTO 2026 WITH WIND IN THEIR SALES AS REPUBLICANS CAN&rsquo;T GET OUT OUT OF THEIR OWN WAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cuellar and his wife were indicted last year for bribery, money laundering, working on behalf of a foreign government, and conspiracy. The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3909769\/judge-blocks-doj-using-former-comey-lawyer-data\/\">Department of Justice<\/a> alleged that the couple accepted $600,000 from a Mexican bank and an oil company owned by the Azerbaijan government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said Friday that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3909576\/henry-cuellar-blames-biden-doj-for-weaponization-against-him\/\">former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s Justice Department weaponized the agency against him<\/a> after he was critical of the administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-hampshire-leads-nation-in-fentanyl-overdoses\/\" title=\"New Hampshire Leads Nation in Fentanyl Overdoses\">open border immigration policies<\/a>. He is the first Democrat that Trump has pardoned in his second term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuellar says he doesn&#8217;t &#8216;vote party&#8217; after Trump&#8217;s pardon backlash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2518524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-collage-q7ebk1jgf-1765134409651-e1765135688852.jpg?1765117691&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[52300,18987,51796,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2518523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-betrayal-2","tag-cuellar","tag-pardon-2","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-collage-q7ebk1jgf-1765134409651-e1765135688852.jpg?1765117691&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518523","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518527,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518523\/revisions\/2518527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2518524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}