President Donald Trump is not a man who minces words, filters the truth, or holds back what he truly thinks and feels, especially when it comes to the good of the American people. The president put this trait on full display when he took Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) to the proverbial woodshed after finding out that he would be running for office again, this time as a Democrat.
Trump pardoned Cuellar and stated in a long Truth Social post that he never expected Cuellar to run for office again and accused him of being disloyal. “Nobody knows Henry Cuellar better than Donald J. Trump. I studied his records, learned about his financing, and listened to his two wonderful daughters beg me to help the mother and father that they love,” Trump wrote on his social media account.
The president then discussed the emotional impact letters written by the daughters had on him and his decision to issue Cuellar a pardon. “Their letters were heart wrenching and beautiful, but their father had problems that nobody could solve but me, and the daughters very correctly and respectfully knew that. He and his wife were headed to jail for up to 20 years because he was “stupid” in what he did,” Trump continued.
“But, above all, because the Biden Administration practiced Political Weaponization on Cuellar and his wife because they didn’t agree with his policies on the Southern Border,” the president added. “He was a weak and incompetent version of me, who wanted the Border closed to criminals, drug dealers, people from mental institutions and, above all, murderers and heavy handed criminals that were sitting in jails and mental institutions, and should never have been given the right to be released into our Country. ”
The president then explained that while Cuellar’s views on immigration and border security were still thin, they were better than those held by the majority of Democrats. “Henry’s views on these subjects were not strong, but they were better than other Democrats. Biden and his crew of Radical Left Thugs did not like those things about Cuellar, and they worked hard, and expected to put him in jail for the rest of his life,” he wrote.
Trump then said that his own experience as the object of Biden’s lawfare attack, along with the letters from Cuellar’s daughters, led him to grant the congressman and his wife a full and unconditional pardon. “In doing so, I never assumed he would be running for Office again, and certainly not as a Democrat, who essentially destroyed his life even with the Pardon given,” President Trump wrote.
“But he did, and now, despite doing him by far the greatest favor of his life, 20 years of FREEDOM, I am fighting him for his seat in Congress because his views are not nearly as good or strong as Judge Tano Tijerina, who is much more powerful on the Border issue, cutting Taxes, our Military, and just about everything else than is Henry Cuellar,” the president’s post concluded.
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Cuellar and his wife were accused of taking nearly $600,000 in bribes and laundering the money, according to a report from The Hill. Cuellar, the representative for Texas’ 28th District, who has served in the seat since 2005, won the Democratic primary in March 2026 and moves on to the general election this November.