Since @KenPaxtonTX almost never makes himself available for grilling by reporters, the questions he got from the #txlege senators yesterday almost looked like (rare) accountability 1/

In a voice dripping with sarcasm, @whitmire_john asked
@KenPaxtonTX yesterday about his Jan. 6 speech and if, "when the riot began, did you have the opportunity to ask your base to maybe stand down." #txlege 2/

Asked if he'd called on his "base" to back down after speaking at the #Trump rally in DC on Jan. 6, @KenPaxtonTX answered: "No, I did my speech. Angela and I left after the speeches. And we went and had lunch and people did what they did." #txlege 3/

. @whitmire_john kept pressing @KenPaxtonTX at the #txlege Senate Finance Committee meeting yesterday: "Were you there on state business or campaign business? Did you spend one dollar in state monies to be there?" 4/

. @KenPaxtonTX said he was actually in DC on Jan.6/7 not only for #trump rally but also to talk to White House about Medicaid $$ ( #MFAR): "I didn't spend money personally. Now security is with me often. But I was there to also talk @ MFAR ... so I had a state purpose." #txlege 5/

. @SenJaneNelson also tore into @KenPaxtonTX over @TXAG agency raises, saying: "It does not please me that ... we had a $40 MILLION expenditure for raises that LBB didn't approve, this #txlege didn't approve, nobody approved. And it made me very very unhappy." 6/

After @SenJaneNelson ripped on @KenPaxtonTX for doling out raises without #txlege approval, the AG said sheepishly: "I wish we'd done that one differently." Nelson responded, "I sure wish you'd done it differently, too." Boom. 7/