JUST IN: Trump Pardons Democrat Congressman In Staggering Transfer
President Donald Trump made headlines on Wednesday morning by announcing a “full and unconditional pardon” for Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, Imelda, wiping away the Biden-era corruption case that sent shockwaves through Washington.
Trump unloaded on Truth Social, accusing the Biden administration of targeting Cuellar for refusing to play along on border policy. “For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed with them,” Trump wrote.
He blasted what he called one of the “clearest examples” of political retaliation, saying “Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to ‘take out’ a member of his own Party after Highly Respected Congressman Henry Cuellar bravely spoke out against Open Borders, and the Biden Border ‘Catastrophe.’”
Trump said Biden’s team even went after Cuellar’s wife. “Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman’s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH. It is unAmerican and, as I previously stated, the Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy!” he wrote, accusing Democrats of being willing to “attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda.”
He closed by declaring, “Because of these facts, and others, I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!”
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)
Cuellar has long warned Democrats they were losing the public on immigration. In January 2024, he told Fox News Digital that voters, including in his heavily Hispanic district, were fed up.
“If they’re looking at the same polls I’ve been looking at, the American public doesn’t like what’s happening,” he said. “I represent an area where it’s almost 80% Hispanic, a lot of Democrats. So, yeah, the polls are showing that it’s an important issue.” On Biden, he added, “It’s in the president’s best interest politically to come up with a solution on border security.”
Months later, the Justice Department under Biden indicted Cuellar and his wife, accusing them of taking roughly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-owned energy company and a Mexican bank. Prosecutors claimed the payments were pushed through sham consulting contracts and shell companies tied to Imelda Cuellar.
“The bribe payments were allegedly laundered, pursuant to sham consulting contracts, through a series of front companies and middlemen into shell companies owned by Imelda Cuellar, who performed little to no legitimate work under the contracts,” DOJ said at the time. The department alleged Cuellar used his office to tilt U.S. foreign policy toward Azerbaijan and to influence legislative actions and federal officials in ways that benefited the Mexican bank.
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