Posted on 12/07/2025 7:56:15 AM PST by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump fumed about a House Democrat — who he just pardoned — choosing to remain with the party rather than defect to the Republicans.
In a blistering post to Truth Social early Sunday, the president bashed Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) for announcing his intent to run for re-election as a Democrat, despite receiving a pardon from the president. Cuellar was facing charges for allegedly taking over $600,000 in foreign bribes. (The congressman’s wife, Imelda, was also charged in connection with the scheme.)
“Can you imagine???” Trump wrote. “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! 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. The Dems were vicious, and all because Henry strongly wanted, correctly, BORDER SECURITY!”
The president went on to cite a letter he’d received from Cuellar’s two daughters — who pleaded for a pardon for their parents.
‘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!),” Trump wrote. “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. 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!”
But Trump quickly changed his tune.
“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!” Trump wrote. “Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like. Oh’ well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!”
Cuellar, on Wednesday, said “Nothing has changed — I’m a good old conservative Democrat.”
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You apparently do not know much about about the Cuellar family.
That happens because windbags like you have a history of voting for them. Congratulations, and better luck next time.
It’s been done before. What are his chances under the new map? (Whether D or R?)
I think Blago deserved a pardon. The indictment didn’t list even one law he had broken.
Ashcroft let the governor announce that a vote for Carnahan would be a vote to appoint his widow Jean Carnahan, and then when Senator Carnahan had to vote for Ashcroft's nomination for Attorney General, she refused to return the favor.
Democrats are Scorpions, and the Republicans are the frogs -- every time.
I'm sorry to learn that Trump just got stung, too.
-PJ
“The State of Texas has laws that might be applicable.” Probably won’t use them though. His political career is toast anyway, the dems don’t like him obviously, since they were the ones who wanted to put him away for 15 years, and the republicans won’t vote for him since he stupidly stays with the same party that wanted to put him away. What a complete idiot.
You knew he was a snake when you pardoned him.
You are so wrong in this day and age. The Fifth nowadays is to keep the spin doctors from having more to spin.
Especially when so called "crimes" are made out of whole cloth such as taking 32 misdemeanors that were not even commented by the defendant, into felonies by ignoring statutes of limitation.
Trump posted: “Oh well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!”
He knows he got conned.
BTW Trump also got conned by Mamdani, a scum bag who never deserved to be invited to the Oval Office. That’s a privilege that should be reserved for serious and honorable people, not for people who never had a job or have any accomplishments in life.
Inviting Mamdani only served to raise his profile and legitimize him. Trump needs to focus on MAGA, not on corrupt losers and con artists.
Since the prez knew then & knows even beter now..l..maybe he could send Cuellar back.
We have a very different perception. You might benefit from reflecting on the lessons in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War as President Trump did many years ago.
Subtlety and the long game appear to be lost on you. Trump did not get the reputation of master negotiator by making obvious moves such as you suggest. Be of good cheer nobody is playing Trump.
My daddy used to say...
“If you insist on hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, don’t come complaining to me when you have a headache!”...
I’ve read several of his books starting with The Art of the Deal about a decade ago.
He doesn’t get played. Not by a guy like Cuellar
“We have a very different perception.”
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Within about two weeks of being invited to the Oval Office Mamdani is instructing illegals how to “stand up” to ICE. It doesn’t take someone schooled in the art of war to see that this is fomenting resistance to the president’s own immigration and crime control efforts. Nor does it take any great perceptive powers to see what Mamdani is all about.
So yes, we see this in very different ways.
Did you not read his quote? Trump himself so much as admitted that he got duped.
Make no mistake, the other side is reveling in Trump’s blunder of pardoning the thieves Cuellar and his wife. This was a self-inflicted political wound.
Trump himself so much as admitted that he got duped.
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The question is.. “who did the duping”? Who ever needs
a little correcting or removal. jmo but life goes on.
I think that most people who voted for Trump want him to intensely focus on America First, like a laser beam, and not get distracted by side shows. JMHO
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