{"id":16219,"date":"2025-12-03T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pardons-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:01:41","slug":"trump-pardons-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pardons-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pardons Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the president announced in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, blaming former President Joe Biden for weaponizing the Justice Department against his opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman&#8217;s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115656343773820545\" target=\"_blank\">Trump wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt is unAmerican and, as I previously stated, the Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar and his wife were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/05\/03\/congress\/cuellar-indicted-00155977\" target=\"_blank\">charged in 2024 with accepting $600,000<\/a> in bribes from foreign entities. The moderate Democrat \u2014 who has long been a battleground target for Republicans \u2014 was nonetheless reelected to his South Texas seat in November.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking news story that will be updated.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the president announced in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, blaming former President Joe Biden for weaponizing the Justice Department against his opponents. \u201cSleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman&#8217;s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIt is unAmerican and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}