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Ken Paxton: “We have lawsuits against Google, Facebook, tech companies.”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Published September 20, 2023 | Video Starts at 36:36

So you think that was the third rail? That's what you did? That. Oh, there's no doubt brought impeachment on your head. There's no doubt that. Of course, we're also. We have lawsuits against Google, Facebook, tech companies. We were starting to invest big pharma on the vaccine because, as you know, the vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any damages. They're completely immune under federal law. (36:36–36:40)

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Asserts that there are ongoing lawsuits against major tech companies.

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Ken Paxton

“The Texas House has 150 members, and 65 of them are Democrats who always vote in a block.”
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“The Speaker of the Texas House is chosen by Democrats.”
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“The Speaker, Dave Phelan, is controlled by the Democrats.”
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“Two of the four House investigating lawyers worked at the Department of Justice in Washington.”
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“We were winning 77% of our cases against the Biden administration.”
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“The effort to remove me from office was instigated by the Biden administration.”
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“I was immediately suspended and lost my office.”
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“The comptroller, Glenn Hager, for some reason decided, you know what? I'm not going to pay you.”
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“We had a gag order put in place on both parties somewhere, I think, in June.”
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“The House didn't follow the gag order. They leaked everything to the Austin American Statesman or the Houston Chronicle or Dallas Morning…”
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“I was not afforded legal representation by the state while I was out.”
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“They didn't identify elements of a crime.”
Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton | Uploaded September 20, 2023 | 12:14-12:17
“There's a group called Texans for Lawsuit Reform. They spent a lot of money to bring in another candidate, Eva Guzman.”
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“We have emails where they've written articles and they send them to Karl Rove, and then Karl Rove gets them published in the Wall Street…”
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“His candidates typically lose. I mean, he's backed my opponents in every AG race that I've been in.”
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“We have text messages with him communicating with them as well.”
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“I got 68%. George P. Got 32.”
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“I've seen lots of alcohol on the floor. I've seen lots of people drunk.”
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“I asked them to look into him. Like, why don't you see if he's drinking on the floor?”
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“Almost every single one of those Republicans that voted against me got money from Texans for Lawsuit Reform a lot.”
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“I think illegal immigration is a good thing. It helps our business. And obviously, I don't agree with that. I think it's devastating to my…”
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“It's affecting, obviously, our border communities are devastated. You have towns that have 36,000 people. You got more than that, more…”
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“John Cornyn has been basically vacant on this issue. He's not. He's not. Why, look, he. To me, he's been in Washington too long.”
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“I can't think of a single thing he's accomplished for our state or even for the country, let alone the fact that we have a massive invasion…”
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“He is, absolutely. If you go back and look at his history, he was on the Texas Supreme Court appointed by Bush.”
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“Cornyn did it judicially, I think, completely illegally and turned our schools into very mediocre prospects.”
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“We now can't prosecute voter fraud in Texas because the court of criminal appeals in Texas struck down a statute from 1951.”
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“We were prosecuted. I only had one lawyer. When I started to prosecute this, I got the legislature giving more. We were fully busy…”
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“The legislature passed the law in 51 that directed the attorney general to prosecute voter fraud.”
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“The court of criminal Appeals, who I am concerned was put there by George Soros.”
Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton | Uploaded September 20, 2023 | 28:01-28:05
“The Senate overwhelmingly passed it.”
Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton | Uploaded September 20, 2023 | 28:27-28:30
“I was told in the Texas House by Dave Phelan's team, we don't have time for that.”
Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton | Uploaded September 20, 2023 | 28:29-28:34
“I know that mail in ballots are completely unreliable.”
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“We won every single lawsuit, all 12.”
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“Georgia, which had the same margin of victory for Trump four years prior, they don't stop it.”
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“They sign a consent decree and they have mail in ballots with no signature verification.”
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“I have no doubt, having been through that whole process.”
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“I do know 100% that they cheat with mail in belts.”
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“We have prosecuted people for that.”
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“Local administrators were going to send out millions of ballots [in Texas].”
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“We were starting to invest big pharma on the vaccine because, as you know, the vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any damages.”
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“Our Google lawsuit, our antitrust lawsuit is the, I think the largest the world's ever seen.”
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“We are the largest Republican attorney general's office in the country.”
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“We have higher crime rates in all categories because of policies from DAs.”
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