PolitiFact - Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton didn’t discard millions of mail ballots

of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations of bribery and abuse of office, social media users are falsely claiming Paxton also recently admitted to election interference.said Paxton was"caught on tape saying he discarded 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas." The video’s narrator talks about the prosecutor appointed in Paxton’s case, but does not mention ballots.

TikTok identified the video as part of its efforts to counter inauthentic, misleading or false content. May 30 on Twitter, claimed Paxton, a Republican,"admitted he stopped Democratic votes from being counted," which the tweet said"would have given President Biden and Beto O'Rourke wins in Texas."June 2021

appearance on Steven Bannon’s"War Room" podcast. Paxton said Trump would have lost in Texas in 2020 if the attorney general’s office had not mounted a successful legal challenge to block counties from sending mail-in ballot applications to registered voters. "Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million. Those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them," Paxton said on the podcast.

"Had we not done that … we would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election," Paxton continued.Featured Fact-check

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