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President Donald Trump offered a scathing rebuke towards Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, after he announced that he was running for reelection to Congress as a Democrat, despite the president’s pardon of him and his wife.
“Can you imagine??? The Democrats, under the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, who always use extreme force and jail-time to destroy their political opponent, wanted to put Congressman Henry Cuellar, and his wife, Imelda, in PRISON, for 15 years, which I predicted these Radical Left Lunatics would do – And they never stopped wanting to fulfill this evil quest!” he wrote Sunday in a post to Truth Social.
“The Dems mercilessly went after Henry with everything they had! They were looking to destroy him, his lovely wife, his two young daughters, and anyone close to them. When the Democrats overwhelmingly lost the 2024 Presidential Election, and power with it, they, regardless, did everything they could to keep going after the Cuellar family,” he added.
Despite Cuellar being a Democrat, he often criticized Joe Biden’s open border policies. However, his remarks seemingly put him in the Biden administration’s crosshairs, which allegedly targeted him with lawfare, RSBN previously reported.
After his comments, the Biden Justice Department charged the congressman and his wife with bribery, claiming both of them acted like foreign agents for accepting money from Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company and a Mexican bank.
“The Dems were vicious, and all because Henry strongly wanted, correctly, BORDER SECURITY! He was against illegals pouring into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted. The Congressman didn’t want gang members, drug dealers, violent prisoners, people from mental institutions and yes, even murderers, in the good ol’ USA,” President Trump wrote.
If found guilty, Cuellar faced a maximum of 204 years imprisonment, according to the Justice Department.
The president then pardoned Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, on Wednesday.
He wrote, “It was all very unfair what they were doing to him and his family, so much so that his daughters wrote me a beautiful letter about their parents (Just posted on TRUTH!). After reading it I decided, in the interest of justice, and based on the daughter’s loving request, that I would give Henry and Imelda a Full and Complete Pardon.”
Still, the congressman announced immediately after that, despite his party outwardly persecuting him, he would be seeking reelection as a Democrat, Just the News reported, marking a sense of betrayal to the commander-in-chief.
“I never spoke to the Congressman, his wife, or his daughters, but felt very good about fighting for a family that was tormented by very sick and deranged people – They were treated sooo BADLY! I signed the papers, and said to people in the Oval Office that I just did a very good, perhaps life saving, thing. God was very happy with me that day!” the president said.
He continued, “THEN IT HAPPENED!!! Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be ‘running’ for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat, continuing to work with the same Radical Left Scum that just weeks before wanted him and his wife to spend the rest of their lives in Prison – And probably still do!
“Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like,” he concluded. “Oh’ well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!”