House Dem pardoned by Trump reveals whether he will switch political parties

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Moderate South Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar revealed his feelings about his pardon by President Donald Trump and addressed whether he will be switching political parties. Speaking with Fox News Digital, Cuellar said, "I’m certainly very thankful to the president, thankful to the president, and also very thankful to God. It was a very difficult time for my family, my daughters, my wife, a very difficult time, but we came through this." Asked whether he agrees with Trump that he was targeted by the Biden administration , Cuellar said, "Absolutely, absolutely." "We looked up how many times I got on national TV and national media; it was over 150 times. I was very critical of the Biden administration," he said. "I tried very hard to get them to understand the border. I live there, they just wouldn’t take it, and after that I started criticizing them." TRUMP PARDONS FORMER HUNTER BIDEN BUSINESS ASSOCIATE DEVON ARCHER "The timing of this was very suspect, 40 days before an election, if you recall, I was having that primary race where they spent 20 million dollars against me and more things that we’re going to talk about that makes it very, very suspect. And remember, I had a legal opinion by a law firm, I had two ethics opinions on this, and they went ahead and moved forward on this." Cuellar said that amid the investigation, the Trump team called him up and asked, "What’s going on?" On the question of whether he would be switching parties after the pardon, Cuellar said, "Nothing has changed. I’m a conservative blue dog, I will work with the president like I have done with him on the things that we can agree on, we can agree on a lot of things." "But as a very conservative Democrat, I’m good here," he went on, adding, "But I’m very bipartisan. I certainly want to work with the administration. In fact, some of his folks have reached out to me about working on some things together, and we’re going to work together." "We’re going to continue to focus on work, and we’re…