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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Most politicians don’t have core beliefs, they will just go with the prevailing winds, and be whatever they have to be to get elected.
Rather than buying Trump acted against weaponization of the justice system. I think he assumed that having been treated with such viciousness by the democrats. HC would want nothing to do with them in future. Frankly I would have assumed the same and find his decision quixotic. I do believe he should have met with the President to discus his gratitude & the future.
HC’s continued democrat alignment suggests that they still have a holld on the Congressman.
Trump got played...
This is meat for the republican running. long term strategy in play.
“ Trump still doesn’t understand that liberalism is a disease with no cure.”
Yes he does
What most people don’t get is you can’t win the midterms by campaigning and hoping the incurable liberals don’t cheat
He actually gets that.
He released this creep same time Texas was redistricted per USSC. This district is broken up now.
Cults are hard to defy.
Like every other Congresscritter, Cuellar needs plum committee assignments producing inside information he can then trade on, to make money to pay his legal bills, and then, get rich.
For Cuellar, it was a cold calculation as to which party affiliation would allow him to conduct this grift most quietly and effectively. Nothing personal directed at PDJT.
Give Cuellar a little more time and he will,eventually, move to our side.
“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!”
stopped being influenced by headlines and the lying media.
I think Trump struck out here. But Babe Ruth struck out a lot too. Still much better than the alternative.
“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!”
I don’t know what the President thought; but it would have been wise to keep quiet about this and avoid that appearance.
Could he win as a D and then flip in office to R?
“ Trump got played.”
I doubt that
No one reads Trumps books?
Trump’s genuineness drew and retained RFK Jr. and whats-her-name the surfing Hawaiian now helping PDJT root out the deep state.
Charlie Brown trusted Lucy again.
Fair point.
Yep the scorpion fable.
“You f’d up, you trusted us!”
BTTT!
“ There are many unintended consequences to this. Cuellar is tied to trump now in his election. Trump has tagged him as untrust worthy.”
Dems are the ones who put this guy in jail. Now he’s loyal to them? They won’t welcome him. They want him in jail
He might be groveling but they’re way more unforgiving than Trump
Dear Jon Preston, stop looking at life through a political lens.
POTUS is the President of all the people & his pardon power is for righting injustice not for rewarding friends. People spin it otherwise, but POTUS does not. He dispenses justice, and mercy where warranted.
The fact that it does not meet with a return in some cases is just life. Morality dictates that we continue to do what we believe is right even unto enemies. Sometimes right is to blow them out of the water sometimes right is a pardon because of prosecutorial malfeasance.
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