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Ken Paxton: “We brought in over the last my term, almost over $10 billion…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 17:19

And then they tried to censor people for telling the truth. We took on the opioid manufacturer, we sued the distributors. Ultimately got a 3.2 billion overall from that. So We brought in over the last my term, almost over $10 billion of revenue to the state. So we're now a profit center which the legislature lost because I just keep bringing the money. And so that flowed into my third term because we saw what happened in the election of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. (17:19–17:26)

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Asserts that Texas brought in over $10 billion in revenue during Ken Paxton's term.

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