President Donald Trump announced he was pardoning Democratic Party Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, ahead of their trial next April.
The Texas Democrat faces a dozen charges, including bribery, money laundering and conspiracy.
But Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday that he was granting the conservative Democrat a “full and unconditional PARDON” as his Justice Department moved forward with the case.
“For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed with them,” Trump wrote. “One of the clearest examples of this was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to ‘take out’ a member of his own Party after Highly Respected Congressman Henry Cuellar bravely spoke out against Open Borders, and the

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