Posted on 09/15/2023 7:22:35 AM PDT by isthisnickcool
Closing arguments in Ken Paxton impeachment.
Tony Buzbee is on top of his game....
...and has the best tailor in Austin.
This is a great lesson in how the left co-opts the term “conservative” and uses it to put their own players into office.
More Bush Ties to Paxton Impeachment Revealed
Attorney General (OAG) went to the FBI on September 30 regarding potential unlawful conduct by Paxton. The very next day, Bush reactivated his law license after a 10-year hiatus.
Furthermore, many of the whistleblowers had retained Bush-affiliated lawyer Johnny Sutton to represent them in the matter. However, during the trial, it was revealed that Sutton had not charged them over the course of three years and that fees had hardly been discussed.
Ryan Vassar explained, “He has agreed to bill us at a future date.”
Sutton was the criminal justice policy director for George P. Bush’s uncle, George W. Bush while the latter served as the governor of Texas. Sutton also led the Department of Justice transition team for George W. Bush after he was elected president.
Bush then named Sutton associate deputy attorney general before appointing him as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, a position he held from November 2001 to April 2009.
Sutton also notoriously prosecuted several border patrol agents while acting as a U.S. attorney, apparently giving drug traffickers legal immunity in order to secure the agents’ convictions.
Prior to his attempt to unseat Paxton as attorney general, George P. Bush was Texas land commissioner after being elected in 2014. Before this, he founded the real estate equity firm Pennybacker Capital and St. Augustine Partners, an oil and gas consulting firm, in 2007.
By 2020, Austin real estate investor Nate Paul, a central figure in the impeachment proceedings against Paxton, had several of his properties raided by law enforcement, his assets frozen, and eventually, his properties foreclosed on.
Despite several attempts to forestall the foreclosure auctions, his properties went to the auction block in 2021. All of the properties were won by “entities connected to two powerful real estate firms: Karlin Real Estate LLC and Pennybacker Capital,” per the Austin Business Journal.
Additionally, potential bidders “complained they weren’t allowed to bid on the World Class properties because trustees would only [accept] cashier’s checks … which multiple attendees said was atypical at foreclosure sales.”
As previously noted, Pennybacker Capital, which acquired the building that housed Paxton associate Nate Paul’s headquarters, was founded by Bush. The firm had also filed a nearly $16 million claim on Paul’s company during the bankruptcy proceedings for another property, but it was dismissed in court.
A few years before Pennybacker bought Paul’s properties, Bush in his capacity as land commissioner in 2017 reportedly used the General Land Office (GLO) to invest around $75 million from the Texas Permanent School Fund into his real estate company. The GLO controls the Real Estate Special Fund Account “to invest in real property on behalf of the Permanent School Fund.”
Bush also used the GLO to retain Johnny Sutton’s law firm, Ashcroft, for legal services worth nearly $180,000 in 2022 alone.
During this time, Sutton was representing the whistleblowers, who reported Paxton to the FBI based on their “good faith belief” that criminal misconduct had occurred, as reported by The Dallas Express.
https://dallasexpress.com/state/more-bush-ties-to-paxton-impeachment-revealed/
Maybe not proof, but there is solid evidence that people connected with the Bushes sided and abetted the persecution. The so called whistle blowers have been represented for the last 3 years for free by Johnny Sutton who worked in the George W Bush administration.
Thx, Rusty!
Stay out da Bushes, forever, Texas!!
Get his name to Team Trump, please.
So sick of these absurd, sham show against political opponents Bea Ess.
“More Bush Ties to Paxton Impeachment Revealed”
Thanks for that. Very enlightening and pretty much what I expected. The Bushes are dead to me and the list is long and growing (Pence being the most recent addition).
He may be a genius, and he may have done a great job in this case, but what he did to Deshawn Watson is unforgivable.
Buzbee knew his clients were lying but he helped them shake down Watson and harm his career and the sport anyway.
Scroll to “ Citizen Journalism Uncovers Potential Bush Family Connection To The Paxton Impeachment “ podcast and listen. About 26 minutes long. She found all this through public records.
https://www.playpodcast.net/podcast/the-michael-berry-show/#e2949-2661
I haven’t seen the defense flaying the prosecution this badly since I had jury duty in 2017.
Tony Buzzbe killed it on closing arguments ! You can watch on the TX Senate Video feed soon ......freakin awesome.
Thank you. I’ll definitely check it out.
“The worst was Neil Bush”
indeed ... Mr. Silverado S&L himself ... Neil’s the Bush equivalent of the Biden Crime Family’s Hunter Biden, only without as many drugs, whores and illegal guns ...
Tony does not take cases like the Watson case without basis. For example, he went after Stanley Marsh out of his own pockets for those kids who were abused by Marsh.
I’ve known him for many years. He has collected billions for his clients. Heck, his wife is worth a fortune herself, he does not have to take these cases where he makes pennies.
Tony loves getting justice for the little guy, I’ve seen this firsthand.
Deshawn Watson was a total moron and is lucky to be where he is at today.
Sorry to say the entire Bush family made their money off the US taxpayers. Even “W” got rich off the Texas Stadium deal after hitting a ditch on his own business dealings.
Thye esteemed white haired Babs Bush shook down a lot of companies such that the Bush family obtained equity in entities that would later be part of various “pump-and-dump” schemes. I had a family member experience this. Both Babs and George HW had people that did nothing but spit out sweet notes to people such that everyone thought they were great folks - they were not.
Years back in San Antonio at an event I got in Neil’s face over the Silverado thing. That was back in my drinking days and at one point the secret service literally picked me up by the elbows and moved me out of Neil’s way. One whispered “stand there still and count to 60 or you will regret it”. A few years later Neil and Babs would be trying to shake down entities like the Houston Independent School District for some crappy software Neil had.
I know people who served with George P and they say he is a great guy but at the end of the day the Bush family would have been and is nothing without your tax dollars and the influence they get in high offices.
Tony knows Trump, he held a fund raiser for Trump in his house and later got out of sorts with Trump over the “grab the pu$$y stuff”. They would later make up and Tony gave $$ to the Trump inauguration.
“Tony does not take cases like the Watson case without basis.”
Yeah, the basis was that Watson is famous with a lot of money. Legalized extortion. That’s why none of Buzbee’s girls were willing to take a polygraph.
But uncut cocaine is expensive.
“Heck, his wife is worth a fortune herself, he does not have to take these cases where he makes pennies.”
His Galveston girlfriend comes from money and married into more of it. Can’t blame her. And I’m sure it is true love. Time will tell.
At least Buzbee isn’t a slimy Democrat. He does have that going for him.
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