Trump rages Dem won't flip parties for him after 'greatest favor of his life' [View all]

Source: Raw Story

January 6, 2026 7:29PM ET


President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday to rage that Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a conservative Democrat he gave a pardon to in a federal bribery case, is still running for office as a Democrat despite the massive "favor" he gave him.

Trump had apparently expected Cuellar would either bow out of the way or switch parties for him after the pardon, which was met with shock and anger by South Texas Republicans who had been hoping to unseat him. He has been fuming ever since realizing that Cuellar didn't plan to do either of those things.

"Nobody knows Henry Cuellar better than Donald J. Trump," wrote the president. "I studied his records, learned about his financing, and listened to his two wonderful daughters beg me to help the mother and father that they love. Their letters were heart wrenching and beautiful, but their father had problems that nobody could solve but me, and the daughters very correctly and respectfully knew that. He and his wife were headed to jail for up to 20 years because he was 'stupid' in what he did but, above all, because the Biden Administration practiced Political Weaponization on Cuellar and his wife because they didn’t agree with his policies on the Southern Border."

"He was a weak and incompetent version of me, who wanted the Border closed to criminals, drug dealers, people from mental institutions and, above all, murderers and heavy handed criminals that were sitting in jails and mental institutions, and should never have been given the right to be released into our Country," Trump continued.

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