What happened

President Donald Trump Wednesday unexpectedly pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who was charged last year with accepting nearly $600,000 in foreign bribes tied to Azerbaijan and Mexico.

The Biden administration “weaponized the Justice System” against “Political Opponents” like Cuellar, Trump said in a social media post announcing his pardons of the “beloved Texas congressman” and his “wonderful wife, Imelda.” But Trump Wednesday also pardoned sports executive and arena developer Timothy Leiweke, who was indicted by his own Justice Department in July for allegedly rigging the bidding process for a new arena in Texas.

Who said what

The Cuellar pardon “immediately stoked speculation” that the Lardo Democrat “might finally switch to the GOP after years of entreaties,

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