Rep. Cuellar speaks out after Trump announces pardon

After President Donald Trump introduced he is pardoning Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), the congressman instructed reporters he’ll nonetheless search reelection as a Democrat. In 2024, Cuellar and his spouse had been charged with accepting practically $600,000 in bribes from two overseas entities in an alleged scheme that happened from late 2014 by way of a minimum of November 2021, in response to the indictment. Cuellar has denied any wrongdoing by him and his spouse.