Speaker 1: Welcome to the Truth with Lisa Booth. Today, we've got
Speaker 1: Attorney General Ken Paxson on the show. He just announced
Speaker 1: a primary run against John Cornyn for Senate, so of
Speaker 1: course I'm going to ask him about that. Why do
Speaker 1: you decide a run? What are his chances? We'll dig
Speaker 1: into that. Also, I don't know if you saw, but
Speaker 1: the New York Times is now coining a new phrase
Speaker 1: for the left dark woke. Sounds stupid, probably because it is.
Speaker 1: What does it mean? What do you need to know
Speaker 1: about it? Also? Was Biden's border crisis just a deliberate
Speaker 1: ploy to flood the country with new voters and also
Speaker 1: to skew the senses and electoral college votes? We'll dig
Speaker 1: in with Ken Paxton. And why are Democrats just doubling
Speaker 1: down on men and women's sports? We know what's a
Speaker 1: twenty percent issue for them, so why double down? So
Speaker 1: from these political power grabs to these cultural controversies, We're
Speaker 1: going to dig into all of it and get the
Speaker 1: truth with Attorney General Ken Paxton. Stay tuned.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Attorney General Ken Paxton, it's great to have you on
Speaker 1: the show. I appreciate you making the time.
Speaker 2: Hey, glad to be back and you have a great show,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad, to be honest.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. So I wanted to start out. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw so. Democrats are like desperately
Speaker 1: trying to figure out their footing, as we've seen. And
Speaker 1: there's this New York Times article we talked about it
Speaker 1: on out Numbered today, which I just thought it was
Speaker 1: really funny. I don't know if you saw this, and
Speaker 1: it's they're calling it the dark woke, and the New
Speaker 1: York Times quote says, what is dark woke? Democrats are
Speaker 1: trying out a new attitude. It's provocative, edgy and perilously
Speaker 1: towing the line of not being too offensive. But it
Speaker 1: just sort of underscores this journey that the Democrat Party
Speaker 1: has been on. Why do you think they're struggling so
Speaker 1: hard to find their footing.
Speaker 2: Because this wotness that they promoted doesn't work. People don't
Speaker 2: benefit from it. They don't get it. They see that
Speaker 2: the results of it are bad for America, and it's
Speaker 2: bad for them, bad for their families, bad for their kids.
Speaker 3: There's no upside to it.
Speaker 2: It's just liberal policy that harms people, that doesn't provide benefits,
Speaker 2: and people have figured it out, so they're struggling.
Speaker 3: To find a new message in a new narrative.
Speaker 1: I had this conversation with Pal Morrow, who I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're familiar with from Fox, and we're talking about with
Speaker 1: all these judges trying to block President Trump from following
Speaker 1: through with this promise of mass deportations. And if you
Speaker 1: really think about it's kind of genius from the left
Speaker 1: to have allowed millions of legal aliens into the country
Speaker 1: because I think they knew that it would be difficult
Speaker 1: to try to deport them. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: the Immigration Court, there's a backlog over three point six
Speaker 1: million people already. Even for non asylum cases, the proceedings
Speaker 1: can take a couple of years. Well, will we ever
Speaker 1: be able to get rid of some of these people?
Speaker 3: Look, of course, Well, I think these judges are out
Speaker 3: of control, no doubt.
Speaker 2: There is a place for a nationwide injunction, but usually
Speaker 2: relates to things like we did when we sued Joe
Speaker 2: Biden for not enforcing deportation laws. This is a president
Speaker 2: Donald Trump was actually trying to enforce the existing sixsting laws,
Speaker 2: and these judges are stepping into a role that is
Speaker 2: not theirs.
Speaker 3: They're not the executive, they're not the president.
Speaker 2: But I do think over time, we're going to win
Speaker 2: these cases, and I think we're going to start seeing
Speaker 2: Trump the Trump administration push more and more of these
Speaker 2: illegals out. You're right, the left their philosophy was get
Speaker 2: these people in here as fast as possible, and that's
Speaker 2: what they did. They got what it was like three
Speaker 2: or four million people a year that they pushed in
Speaker 2: this country and moved them all over the country and
Speaker 2: took care of all of their needs to the detriment
Speaker 2: of the American people.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's smart to use things like
Speaker 1: the Alien Enemies Act, right. I think that was part
Speaker 1: of the plan to sort of allow to make removal easier,
Speaker 1: you know, particularly for you know, these gang bangers and
Speaker 1: bad people. What do you think to yourself when you
Speaker 1: see Democrats like Chris van Holland going to El Salvador
Speaker 1: to advocate for a guy and a legal alien who
Speaker 1: you know, a couple judges thought to believe that he
Speaker 1: was an MS thirteen member, that even the Prince George's
Speaker 1: police department thought to be an MS thirteen member.
Speaker 2: I think that the Centator is a pathetic senator because
Speaker 2: you're talking about people in this country that are that
Speaker 2: did really bad things, have done evil things to American
Speaker 2: people that are doing evil things that will be a
Speaker 2: risk and a threat.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're one there here.
Speaker 2: Illegally, but second of all, they're being targeted because they're criminals.
Speaker 2: What and we got centators you think that he had.
Speaker 2: He's got a multi trillion dollar budget depths that every year.
Speaker 2: He's got all kinds of problems in America and he's
Speaker 2: off helping some guy in Al salad Or who's a
Speaker 2: threat to our society. I don't know what's wrong with
Speaker 2: that centator, but he's got he's got issues.
Speaker 1: Well, it clearly shows that we're not the priority, right
Speaker 1: Like they don't care. They've given up trying to appeal to,
Speaker 1: you know, American voters, right like, they don't it's not
Speaker 1: about America first, it's Americans last. And you know, and
Speaker 1: you see like they don't even really have to clear
Speaker 1: a pathway for illegal aliens to be able to vote
Speaker 1: because they're already impacting the diet of the power dynamics
Speaker 1: in the country. With the census, right of non citizens
Speaker 1: being included in the apportionment for both the House of
Speaker 1: representatives as well as for electoral colleges. And we heard
Speaker 1: from represent Vivette Clark during a hearing in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and she said, my district can absorb a significant number
Speaker 1: of these migrants, adding I just need more people in
Speaker 1: my district for redistricting purposes.
Speaker 3: That's one of them. News, I mean, that's kind of
Speaker 3: the goal, right, Yeah, yeah, it's one of the nefarious goals.
Speaker 3: I think there's several goals.
Speaker 2: That's certainly they ultimately want these people voting, but definitely
Speaker 2: the first step was using those numbers to add their
Speaker 2: numbers in the House so they can control the US
Speaker 2: House and potentially even affects Senate seats so there's no
Speaker 2: potentially presidential election. So there's no doubt that they had
Speaker 2: to various purposes. They know they can't win on their message.
Speaker 3: They don't. They see it. They see that their message doesn't.
Speaker 2: Help America, and so they import votes and they import
Speaker 2: strategies that help them hold on to power at the
Speaker 2: expense of the American people.
Speaker 1: Why do you think, I know that you've been fighting
Speaker 1: against this, even in red state of Texas, but why
Speaker 1: are Democrats doubling down on men and women's sports.
Speaker 2: You know that one's even a mystery to me. I
Speaker 2: don't understand why any parent, which most of these Democrats
Speaker 2: are parents who have daughters, would want their daughters to
Speaker 2: have to deal with this issue because it effectively eliminates
Speaker 2: daughters from being able to compete in sports. And I
Speaker 2: don't the whole purpose of federal laws protecting, you know,
Speaker 2: women's sports was this so that they would have an
Speaker 2: opportunity to compete. They'd have fair opportunity to compete, fair
Speaker 2: opportunit to participate. And now the Democrats are saying, no,
Speaker 2: we're gonna let men have an unfair advantage and come
Speaker 2: competing against women. It doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: I don't even I don't understand at all. It's one
Speaker 2: of the most I guess, mysterious positions that they've taken.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting too. I'm sure you remember, like
Speaker 1: I was working on Capitol Hill and in politics, and
Speaker 1: I remember the whole like Warren women, right, like Republicans
Speaker 1: were engaging in this Warren woman. It played out in
Speaker 1: the twenty twelve presidential race as well, with Mitt Romney
Speaker 1: being like a binder's full of women, which was a
Speaker 1: strange comment to make, but you know, I digress. But
Speaker 1: now to your point, it's like it's not just engaging
Speaker 1: a war and win, they're trying to erase women. Like
Speaker 1: it's like it's confusing.
Speaker 3: It's very confusing. I mean, these were designed to give them,
Speaker 3: you know, some funding and some opportunity and sort.
Speaker 2: Of generally agreed on by you know, it was a
Speaker 2: bipartist and really issue, even though they claimed it it
Speaker 2: was a democratic issue. The reality is now they've flipped
Speaker 2: it on his head and they're opposing women. I'm shocked
Speaker 2: at more democratic women aren't upset about this. Those women
Speaker 2: have children as well. They have daughters who should have
Speaker 2: a fair opportunity to compete and be equally funded. And
Speaker 2: that's obviously getting flipped the head. If you allow men
Speaker 2: to participate in women's sports, I don't even understand why. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I don't understand why men want to participate in women's sports.
Speaker 2: It seems like a I don't know, they have an
Speaker 2: unfair advantage, and why they would feel good about themselves
Speaker 2: winning in a women's sports I don't I don't understand
Speaker 2: that either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like the men doing that, I question
Speaker 1: their desire to want to be in a women's locker room.
Speaker 1: I question their desire to want to steal those opportunities
Speaker 1: for women. You know that makes me very suspicious of
Speaker 1: these men right and there you know what their true
Speaker 1: motivations are. It's you know, question their mental health as well.
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Speaker 1: in to PRIMARYNG Senator John Cornyan. What provoked that? Why
Speaker 1: did you make that decision?
Speaker 2: So it's just been too long. He's been there for
Speaker 2: twenty four years. He wants to be there for thirty
Speaker 2: three decades of serving Mitch McConnell. Effectively, what he's done,
Speaker 2: it's been Mitch McConnell's lap dog, and he hasn't represented
Speaker 2: the people of Texas. Okay, maybe he's a Republican from
Speaker 2: New York. We might accept his weak behavior and his
Speaker 2: lack of ability to lead on important Republican issues. But
Speaker 2: you know, he's been the guy that was, you know,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's guy for passing gun restrictions.
Speaker 3: Well, that wasn't a very popular issue in text certainly
Speaker 3: not what we sent him to do, but he did it.
Speaker 2: He enabled the ATF to push forward even greater expansive
Speaker 2: gun restrictions that I had to go sue them over.
Speaker 2: Had John Cornyn not done that, I wouldn't be in
Speaker 2: the middle of those lawsuits. But he effectively is fighting
Speaker 2: against his own people. He's been an outspoken critic of
Speaker 2: the border wall and Trump's orderwall. He said it over
Speaker 2: and over that he didn't want a border wall. He's
Speaker 2: insinuated at Amstey is a path that he likes that's
Speaker 2: again very unpopular in Texas.
Speaker 3: And he's also been as been he's been.
Speaker 2: An opposition to for President Trump in twenty sixteen when
Speaker 2: he said he was an albatross around our neck, and
Speaker 2: then in twenty twenty four he insinuated that he was
Speaker 2: a criminal and that he was not going to support Trumpy,
Speaker 2: that we needed to move in a different direction.
Speaker 3: And I heard him on the radio today.
Speaker 2: Supposedly saying that he was he's just as aligned with
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's I am, well, maybe today Johnny comme lately
Speaker 2: because he's in a primary, but that has not been
Speaker 2: his position over the last you know, twelve years or
Speaker 2: ten years that Trump's been around.
Speaker 1: And I think Texas is kind of an interesting state too,
Speaker 1: because it's sort of like loosing the football for Democrats.
Speaker 1: You know, they keeping like, this is our cycle, We're
Speaker 1: going to you know, we're going to win statewide and
Speaker 1: then you know, inevitably they don't. You know, sort of
Speaker 1: looking ahead at the midterms, you know, what are you
Speaker 1: seeing in Texas? You know, what are you hearing sort
Speaker 1: of electorally of what this might look like for us
Speaker 1: as a party.
Speaker 3: You know, we're pretty far out, I think.
Speaker 2: You know, midterms typically don't go as well for the
Speaker 2: party in power, But it all depends on performance. And
Speaker 2: if Trump can can pick up this economy, which I
Speaker 2: think he will, He's had success in the past. If
Speaker 2: the economy is again shape, usually that means good things
Speaker 2: for the party in power. So I'm optimistic because I
Speaker 2: believe in Donald Trump. I believe in his policies, and
Speaker 2: I think they're good for America. So as long as
Speaker 2: we're performing well in two years, I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 2: If we have trouble with the economy for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: then there that's always more of a challenge.
Speaker 1: Where are you on the tariffs?
Speaker 2: I'm a free trader, but I also want fair trade.
Speaker 2: And I think what the President's trying to address is
Speaker 2: the fact that many of these countries, particularly China, but
Speaker 2: other countries as well, have not treated as fairly, and
Speaker 2: I think he's trying to even the playing field.
Speaker 3: I think in the end, we're.
Speaker 2: Going to see a lot of a lot more trade,
Speaker 2: a lot more free trade, and it's not going to
Speaker 2: be so one sided. I think what the President trying
Speaker 2: to do is correct the wrongs of the past that
Speaker 2: no other president willing to do. And we've been at
Speaker 2: the short end of the stick, and I think he's
Speaker 2: trying to fix that. And you know, I applaud him
Speaker 2: for making the significant attempt to do that.
Speaker 1: How do you think he's doing so far this term.
Speaker 2: Look, I think he's working faster than I've ever seen
Speaker 2: any president work. And I said that about his first term,
Speaker 2: that he was the most effective president in four years
Speaker 2: that I'd ever seen, getting more good things done for
Speaker 2: Americans than I did anyone. And I was a huge
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan pivot. Ronald Reagan did what he did in
Speaker 2: eight years. Trump did what he did in four years.
Speaker 2: And the reality is he's moving even faster with this
Speaker 2: dough stuff and putting out the executive orders to eliminate
Speaker 2: regulations and to free up the American economy. He's putting
Speaker 2: in great people into cabinet positions. I mean, I give
Speaker 2: the guy a for the first few months of his term.
Speaker 2: I hope it continues, and I think it will.
Speaker 1: Have you been surprised at all to the opposition to
Speaker 1: DOGE and trying to cut some federal spending.
Speaker 3: No, I expected.
Speaker 2: There's entrenched power forces, people making trillions. You know, we
Speaker 2: got trillions of dollars in debt. They're making billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: Lookt Stacey Averys gets a payoff of two billion or
Speaker 2: whatever she got for her tiny little nonprofit. Of course,
Speaker 2: people are going to hate the stop of free money
Speaker 2: that doesn't benefit any of us except the people that
Speaker 2: are getting it. So I totally am not surprised by
Speaker 2: the resistance to the gravy training, the free money, the
Speaker 2: taxpayer payouts. It's necessary for us to get our budget
Speaker 2: and our deficit under control, and of course there's going
Speaker 2: to be opposition to doing the right thing. Thank you
Speaker 2: President Trump and Elon Musk for getting this done.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you want to try to go to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. There's that infamous quote that you know, if
Speaker 1: you want a friend in Washington, get a dog, you.
Speaker 3: Know, like, are you sure?
Speaker 1: Are you sure you want to.
Speaker 3: Go to DC.
Speaker 2: I'm not going for fun. I'm not going to make friends.
Speaker 2: I'm going to represent my stay in a way. It's
Speaker 2: been better than John Coryn even dreamed of trying. He's
Speaker 2: this is the first attempt he's made a trying now
Speaker 2: that he has a primary opponent. But you know, we
Speaker 2: just deserve better representation. If we're going to fix this country,
Speaker 2: we can't have a John Cornyn from Texas messing that up.
Speaker 2: We need two good centers. We have one, Ted Cruz,
Speaker 2: and we can see the difference. It's pretty clear that
Speaker 2: the people of Texas has two very different centers. Ted
Speaker 2: Cruz is a shining example of what you need to
Speaker 2: be and John corn is a failure. And it's time
Speaker 2: even his own supporters know that he should run for
Speaker 2: his fifth term. He's been in office over forty years
Speaker 2: and he's a thirty year incumbent in the US Senate.
Speaker 2: That's too long. John, take a vacation, do something different, retire.
Speaker 2: But it's been.
Speaker 3: Too long at Treney.
Speaker 1: General, is there anything else you'd like to leave us
Speaker 1: with before we go?
Speaker 2: Look, I think that we have a great opportunity here.
Speaker 2: We have a great president, we have great leaders with
Speaker 2: great vice president.
Speaker 3: We have the House, we have the Senate.
Speaker 2: We have the opportunity now if we continue to elect
Speaker 2: conservative Republicans will push the envelope, we can fix the
Speaker 2: problems that we have, get us on a better path,
Speaker 2: and we have a bright future. If we don't do
Speaker 2: that and we just waste our four years and we
Speaker 2: don't elect the right people, then we're going.
Speaker 3: To suffer the consequence. So I'm optimistic and that's why I'm.
Speaker 1: Running Attorney General. Can Paston of Texas appreciate you making
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 3: Sir, Hey, thank you. Have a great day.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Attorney General Ken Paxton for coming
Speaker 1: on the show. I want to thank you guys at
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