'Quid pro quo wasn't so great': Trump fumes after pardon of Texas Congressman doesn't pan out - Deadline - MS NOW

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Mike Schmidt, New York Times Investigative Reporter, and Claire McCaskill, former Democratic Senator from Missouri, join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House with reaction to Donald Trump’s use of the pardon power which included him recently pardoning a Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar who happens to be a Democrat, and Trump’s reaction to how Cuellar received the news proves he may have been filled into pardoning the Congressman for his own potential gain. - Aired on 12/08/2025.

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1. No more Mr. Nice guy!' Trump erupts as Dem lawmaker he pardoned sticks with party

I am not a fan of Cuellar but this made me smile. trump is an idiot who thinks that everything is transactional. trump gave Cuellar a pardon and so Cuellar needs to change parties and become a MAGA asshat.

'No more Mr. Nice guy!' Trump erupts as Dem lawmaker he pardoned sticks with party

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— HanaChronicler 🇨🇦 (@hanachronicler.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T16:57:45.241Z

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President Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Sunday after learning that the lawmaker – whom he had pardoned this week following bribery and conspiracy charges – still plans to run for re-election as a Democrat, decrying it as “such a lack of loyalty.”

Cuellar, among the most right-wing Democratic lawmakers in Congress, and the only reliably anti-abortion Democrat in the House, was indicted in May of 2024 on charges for bribery, money laundering, acting as a foreign agent and conspiracy.

Prosecutors alleged that he and his wife accepted close to $600,000 from an oil company owned in part by the Eastern European country of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in return for him advocating for legislation favorable to both entities. The payments were alleged to be laundered through sham consulting contracts and shell companies.....

Trump then went on to write how he learned that Cuellar had decided to run for re-election, and apparently to Trump’s surprise, as a Democrat.

“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!”