Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Attorney General Ken Paxton
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Via: hallux • last year • 20 commentsBy: Eleanor Klibanoff - Texas Tribune
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State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton .
“I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” Angela Paxton , R-McKinney, said in a post on X. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”
In her divorce filing, Senator Paxton alleged that her husband had committed adultery, listing it as the "grounds for divorce." The couple stopped living together more than a year ago — "on or about June 1, 2024" — according to a copy of the filing obtained by The Texas Tribune.
In his own statement, Attorney General Paxton cited the “pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny” as the reason the couple had “decided to start a new chapter.”
Attorney General Paxton is currently running against U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s Republican primary, after close to a decade as attorney general. Senator Paxton was elected in 2019 to represent the North Texas Senate district that her husband represented before his elevation to statewide office. She was reelected to another four-year term in November.
Paxton’s record of aggressively suing the Biden administration is matched only by his penchant for scandal, culminating in his impeachment by the Texas House of Representatives in 2023. The Republican-controlled Senate acquitted him after a nearly two-week trial.
Angela Paxton attended her husband's trial but was not allowed to vote on any issues or participate on deliberations over whether to convict or acquit.
The impeachment claims focused on benefits Paxton provided to Austin real estate developer Nate Paul, as well as an alleged extramarital affair the attorney general had with a former Senate aide. According to investigators, the affair ended briefly in 2019 after Angela Paxton learned of it, then resumed in 2020. The woman he allegedly had an affair with was called to testify before the Senate and came to the chamber, but left without speaking.
Ken Paxton has weathered several political and legal scandals since his impeachment acquittal. Last year, prosecutors agreed to drop a nine-year-old felony securities fraud case against him. He has also closed the door on a federal investigation into corruption allegations his former aides lodged with the FBI and overcome a State Bar of Texas attempt to sanction him over his move to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Paxton has yet to see any of his legal troubles spill over to the ballot box, twice winning reelection amid pending scandal. Still, the divorce filing threatens to disrupt his bid for U.S. Senate by playing into Cornyn's attacks on his spotty ethics record.
The news could also complicate Paxton's active efforts to win the endorsement of President Donald Trump, whose stamp of approval could help decide the primary. Trump discussed the race Wednesday night with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and operatives from the Senate GOP's top super PAC, Punchbowl News reported .
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Angela Paxton is obviously a trollop and Ken is being maligned merely for exerting his manly druthers. Want proof? The great leader himself wanted Ken to be US A.G.:
adultery is a maga family value ...
Bill Clinton is a maga?
Too funny. Even with the current President who he likely voted for having cheated on all three of his wives and been accused of sexual assault by over two dozen women, he reaches back 30+ years for an attempted deflection.
Fucking hilarious
Are you? Just deflecting your deflection ... @!@
As long as there is a "D" following their name.
I guess for some with little to no self-respect or morals, political affiliation makes a difference. Personally, I don't give a fuck what party they are, if they're a lying cheating adulterous scum bag, they do not get a pass. Bill Clinton was a scum bag who very likely raped that woman at that party in the '70's. Donald Trump is also a scum bag who very likely raped that 13-year-old girl along with his and Bill Clinton's friend Epstein. I couldn't care less what party either of them is from, they're both rapists who should be held accountable for their crimes and those who continue to defend them should not only be ashamed of themselves, but they should also be held accountable for enabling these vile rapists. Bill Clinton currently has no political power and holds no office, so it would be difficult to accuse anyone of enabling him nowadays. As for Trump, millions of apparently immoral gullible bigots have continued to enable him and have protected him while metaphorically deep throating his short fat mushroom shaped corruption. It's getting almost too gross to watch these days, sometimes I have to look away or mute the news when a Trump sycophant is on one of their full-throated gloryhole performance's.
they don't care how far back in time they have to travel when hauling water to fill the moat around their pending "they did it first/they do it too" defense.
What's fucking hilarious is that 30 years ago, you probably said "so what" when Clinton was accused of raping women, but now, all of a sudden you have a problem with it.
THAT is fucking hilarious.
Just a tad presumptuous.
One characteristic of a partisan mindset is the (apparent) belief that everyone is partisan; the inability to understand how someone could not be partisan.
Most people are highly partisan, the disinterested are few and far between.
I think that has been changing for years now. 43% of the electorate does not consider themselves D or R.
Non partisan means not predominantly adopting the the position of a political party but rather making an informed decision. A non partisan will find themselves agreeing with both parties on differing issues and sometimes (often?) neither party.
Also, I personally find it very difficult to believe that I am such a tiny minority. I genuinely dislike both major parties. Currently I am much more against the GoP TRUMP because it has degraded largely into a Trump cult; no longer the GoP I recognize.
I remain a supporter of responsible government. That means a smaller, fiscally conservative federal government that focuses more on purely national issues leaving the states to cater to their regional concerns. But that also means employing the broad scope of the federal government for standardization (e.g. for medical resources, education, safety net, etc.). I am against government handouts but in favor of helping those less fortunate in return for their contributing to society as best they can.
The Ds have gone too far in their attempts to cater to everyone. But I agree with them that adults should be free to run their lives (and that includes their sex lives) as they see fit as long as they are not harming anyone.
And I believe firmly in the rule of law (versus the rule of man ... or rule of cult leader). Something that seems to have been lost in the GoP TRUMP
One last example, I am in favor of controlling our borders. It only makes sense to ensure we vet immigrants and keep immigration at a level that we can comfortably absorb. But I am against the cruel deportation of illegals who have been living here now for years, with families, jobs, and have committed no crimes (other than getting here illegally).
As we learned from democrats during the Clinton years: never judge a politician by his personal life.
I have family in Texas I have visited three times in the past four years. It seems Paxton is the most hated man in the state unless you are a MAGA.
Many Republicans hate the wonkey eyed, cheating, ass who has abused his authority and managed to out wait the system to some advantage.
Now the Church ladies can't defend his Christianity so easily; there will be a lot more " Bless your heart" comments in Ken's future.
Like my old friend Ratcliffe, Ken will die counting his Krugerrands (after cutting his kids out of his will), alone.
running for office is basically just a self preservation move for ken at this point ...
Oh no!!!!! They are no different than thousands of other people filing for divorce!!!!
NEXT!
Paxton is an adulterer but, according to him, his wife filed for divorce because of the "pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny". He's an even bigger snake than he always appeared to be.
he's always had a wandering eye ...
Why doesn't he just own up to the truth? It's in the divorce papers she filed