Morning Digest: The GOP was targeting this indicted Democrat. Then Trump pardoned him
Morning Digest: The GOP was targeting this indicted Democrat. Then Trump pardoned him Despite a touted opponent and a new gerrymander, Henry Cuellar just received a major boon David Nir and Jeff Singer Dec 4 Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas (credit: Henry Cuellar Facebook) Leading Off TX-28 Despite receiving a pardon from Donald Trump on Wednesday, Rep. Henry Cuellar filed to run for reelection as a Democrat a short time later. “Nothing has changed,” Cuellar, who was scheduled to stand trial on federal corruption charges in April, told reporters . “I’m a conservative Democrat, I’m very bipartisan.” The 11-term congressman, whose wife also received a pardon, added that he would attend a Christmas party at the White House next week to “thank the president personally.” Trump issued his pardon to Cuellar, who was indicted last year for allegedly accepting bribes to aid the government of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank, just one ...