In testimony in Ken Paxton's impeachment trial, two former staffers walked senators through the attorney general’s “alarming” 2020 behavior.
Defense attorney Anthony Osso hands a document to witness Ryan Bangert, former first deputy assistant under Attorney General Ken Paxton, on day three of the suspended attorney general's impeachment trial Thursday.Ryan Bangert did not want to report his boss, Attorney GeneralA bona fide ultraconservative and former Paxton donor, the onetime deputy first assistant attorney general believed in Paxton and the office, calling it a national “beacon” of the conservative legal movement.
“We were protecting the interests of the state and ultimately, I believe, protecting the interests of the attorney general and, in my view, signing our professional death warrant. We understood the gravity of that act,” Bangert testified. Shortly after, Paxton directed Bangert and staff to quickly whip together a legal opinion that would prohibit public foreclosure sales due to COVID-19 restrictions — a position that would’ve benefitted Paul, who had properties facing foreclosure days later.
Paxton lawyer Anthony Osso downplayed the benefit that Paul received from the foreclosure opinion. After Bangert said he had voted for former President Donald Trump, Osso asked him if he was aware of Trump’s executive order that similarly delayed foreclosures.
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