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Episode 4730: Filling Paxton's Seat With A Fully Vetted MAGA Attorney; The Fight Against Newsom
25 Aug 2025
Chapter 1: What is the significance of filling Paxton's seat with a MAGA attorney?
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. Breaking news from Real America's Voice. Okay, welcome. It's Monday, 25 August, year of early 2025. Wow. It's not James Earl Jones right there in that voice, but very impressive. I may call for that again. Breaking news here in big breaking news.
On the morning edition of The War Room, to kick off a week, we're going to be going to Oval Office pretty quickly. It's Maximalist Monday, as President Trump is dropping the hammer in every different vertical on maximizing everything we can possibly do right now because we're burning daylight. President Trump understands that we signed some executive orders making people's heads blow up.
We have huge news coming out of the Lone Star State. Ken Paxton... The beloved and revered attorney general in the state of Texas has just published an incredible endorsement for our first guest, Aaron Reitz. Aaron, thank you so much for joining us here in the War Room. Talk about your relationship first with Ken, because this he put out an amazing and if we Denver, we can put it up.
He put out an amazing endorsement of you. And then he came over the top of it just a second ago with another tweet that really takes it to the next level. So talk to us about your background, your relationship with Ken Paxton, all of it, sir.
Yeah, definitely. Well, thanks for having me on, Steve. I have been a loyal War Room listener for years, and I'm proud to address the War Room posse here this morning. So I most recently served in the presidentially appointed Senate confirmed role as the head of the Office of Legal Policy.
Just most recently in the Justice Department, I resigned from office to deploy back to Texas to run to succeed Ken Paxton as Texas Attorney General. And when President Trump nominated me back in December, he said that Aaron Reitz is a true MAGA attorney and a warrior for the Constitution.
And the reason why he said that about me is primarily because he looked at my three years serving as Ken Paxton's deputy in Texas from 2020 to 2023. I was Ken Paxton's offensive coordinator, as he likes to call me. He was our head coach of our lawfare operations against the left and against the Biden administration. And I was the offensive coordinator.
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Chapter 2: How does Aaron Reitz describe his relationship with Ken Paxton?
And so everybody in Texas is thrilled about Ken running for the Senate and representing Texas in the United States Senate. But a question that a lot of grassroots conservatives are worried about is, gosh, who's going to succeed Ken Paxton? And that question has once and for all been answered. Ken Paxton has said that Aaron Reitz, me, his former deputy, is the only candidate in this race
to succeed him, to keep his foot on the gas, to keep this high horsepower vehicle continuing to fight and take action against the left. I'm proud to have his endorsement. I'm proud that now Texans can finally rest easy and know that they've got a true MAGA attorney who has fought the fights that they care about to succeed Ken Paxton as AG.
Aaron, give me a minute on this because we're momentarily ā as soon as the president comes to the Oval Office, we're going to cut to that. Given the fact ā and you know this better than anybody ā what a basically just rudimentary hold we have on the Justice Department.
As Pam and Pam Bondi and Todd, now with Emil Bovee going to the federal courts, losing a guy like you, compare and contrast the importance of us ā getting things done at the federal level, which were just strapped for people. I mean, I think Cash and everybody, Dan Bongino, FBI, hey, we're short of great attorneys. We're short of prosecutors.
You had this situation with Habba where she just got bracelet by Republicans that concurred with it. What is it about Texas? What is it about Texas in this moment? that takes a Senate-confirmedāI mean, you're like rare platinum right now. Why would we take a Senate-confirmed Mago warrior and take him back to Texas? What is happening to Texans?
What's going to happen that makes it that important?
Yeah, look, it's a great question. And figuring out whether it made sense for me to stay at main justice, what we'll call sort of HQ, where all the biggest brass was, or to go out into the front lines to redeploy back to Texas and to wage war against the left there. And so, look, that's why when Ken announced for Senate in early April,
I didn't announce until mid-June because it took me and my colleagues and my superiors, both in the West Wing and at Maine Justice, to figure out how important is this to get a fully vetted MAGA attorney to... succeed Ken Paxton. Look, the Texas Attorney General leads 600 politically appointed attorneys to wage war on all of the various fronts that we care about.
And so it's not as though I'm leaving a MAGA Justice Department. It's not as though I just departed and I'm no longer an asset to the America First law and order movement. Now I'm pursuing an office that can actually be more effective.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Texas face in the current political climate?
Were they against the Constitution? We're going to fight them. And that started the journey of this show and this audience discussion. Over the last four or five years of this fight down in Texas, from the impeachment now to the redistricting, all of it, what is your punch list?
Since you're leaving and deploying to the front lines, as you talk to the president and made justice, what is your top two or three on your punch list of what needs to be done down in Texas?
Yeah, I love that you go all the way back to January of 2021, the day after Joe Biden got inaugurated. And so I was with Paxton in the fall of 2020. We went through that sham election. We filed Texas v. Pennsylvania to challenge the constitutionality of four states' management of that fraud election.
And so while one of my main opponents in this race was out there defending Mike Pence and saying that the election was great, Ken Paxton and I were in the Oval Office in December of 2020 to stand up for the righteousness and integrity and confidence of what should have been a good election. We challenge that.
On January 21 of 2021, that date that you just cited, when Attorney General Paxton came on your show, My colleagues and I were in the Office of the Attorney General in federal court via Zoom during the, still at the height of the COVID era, already dropping our first lawsuit against the Biden administration, specifically on border security and Alexandra Mayorkas' refusal to deport illegal aliens.
I was the offensive coordinator responsible for the Texas v. Biden docket. That was my docket to lead the Texas v. Biden fight under Paxton. And so even going all the way back then, it brings back such good memories of the times that we were in the trenches fighting against the lawless Biden administration.
And in fact, when President Trump nominated me for my DOJ post back in December, he specifically cited all of the dozens and dozens and dozens of lawsuits that I brought against the Biden administration under Attorney General Paxton's leadership. So what I would say is moving forward, my tenure, it's a four-year term as Texas AG. I'm going to have two chapters as AG.
Chapter number one is going to be deep integration with the Trump administration to advance the ball on the America first law and order agenda. This administration and this attorney general and all of my legal colleagues in this administration know that they need a fully vetted and tested true MAGA attorney, as President Trump said, is me.
So it's going to be that deep integration with the Trump administration in the middle of my term. there's going to be a presidential election. God forbid a Democrat wins. I hope that a Republican does, and we're going to get more integration with a Republican administration.
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Chapter 4: How does Aaron Reitz plan to integrate with the Trump administration as Texas AG?
Walk us through because the source guys who blew $300 million trying to turn Texas blue got to a light shade of purple. Then we reverse it. President Trump won by 14 points. They have not given up. The sun has targeted Texas. And we're talking about 2026. What are your thoughts there, sir?
Yeah, look, I was ā it's fun to watch the liberal tears drop off their faces when they went on their little stunt to leave the state. And lo and behold, just like I was saying on various media appearances and on the campaign trail, at the end of the day, Texas passed the new maps and we're getting five new seats.
Those five new seats are consistent with Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals legal holdings, and it's consistent with Supreme Court holdings on the same subject. And look, Texas is now more Republican than ever, as you rightly pointed out. Trump swept Texas in overwhelming numbers, and those congressional lines ought to best reflect the political leanings of the state.
That is how political lines are drawn. And so these far-left liberal Democrats are out of state, seething, going on their little press conferences, getting clicks on their little social medias, trying to get fundraising, and we drag their butts back to Texas, and we cram the new maps down their throat, and they're gonna go cry about it.
Well, they can cry harder because at the end of the day, what's going to happen is Texas is going to be better represented in the United States Congress. And I, as the next attorney general, am going to have to fight them in court for years to come. I know this because last time we did redistricting in Texas, it was in 2021. We got the 2020 census. 2021 redistricting happened.
All the lines were drawn. I was still Paxton's deputy and offensive coordinator at the time. And I had to coordinate litigation troops against a barrage of Soros-funded, hardcore left-wing, fancy law firm, Democratic-aligned nonprofits suing Texas, bringing constitutional claims, Voting Rights Act claims, Civil Rights Act claims. And they're going to do exactly that.
In fact, lawsuits are already dropping. This litigation doesn't go away quickly. It's a years-long process. So your next AG not only has to have the balls and the courage to be able to block what the left is trying to do, but he's got to be able to walk into the beautifully appointed armory.
of state and federal law weapons to repel the left-wing enemy that wants to turn Texas into something that it's not. And the only AG candidate that is equipped to do that, who knows what he's doing, and who's ready to fight the fight in this lawfare environment that we're in, it's me. And so those maps are great, number one. And number two, when I'm AG, those maps are going to stick.
Aaron, we got 30 seconds. Where do people go to find out more about you and more about your campaign, sir?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of redistricting in California as discussed by the guests?
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And I'm so proud to be here at the Won't Back Down Tour because now we have our eyes fixed on 2026, the midterms. And let me tell you something you already know. Donald Trump knows if the election were held today, they would lose. Donald Trump knows that when the election is held in November next year, they will lose.
That's why he came out and he said blatantly, Texas, I want you to redraw your lines to get me four to five new seats. That's why he's telling other states that are run by Republicans, we need you to redistrict so we can get more seats. Because he knows they can't win, so he wants to cheat. The same thing he's done his entire life.
But I'll tell you, something else I feel really good about is what California's doing. They're saying, we're not gonna let you do this without a fight.
And even when, think about this, even when Democrats, when we have to do something we're not necessarily fully proud of, but we know we have to do to protect democracy, even then we do it differently, because California's putting it on the ballot to put it to the people. And that will make the victory even more sweeter when that ballot proposal passes in November. Give me a thumbs up. Okay.
This show is a little different than we had planned. The reason is the president is going to be coming in momentarily, we think, to the Oval Office on executive orders. These executive orders, ladies and gentlemen, I think many of them are tying to tie back to the maximalist strategy we've been advocating now for, I don't know, a month, over a month. Some very important executive orders.
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Chapter 6: What strategies are being proposed to combat crime in California?
But right now we have a bigger race, and that is a throwdown by Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is rolling the dice on a presidential run in 2028 to basically take five seats from the Republicans. These are folks who get 40 percent of the vote or 42 percent of the vote in California. He wants to take them down to four seats in a 52-seat delegation.
You have been known to have a pretty strong opinion of things. Walk us through your sense of what Gavin Newsom's doing, and is there going to be a fight back from the MAGA base, from the GOP, from the right in California to thwart this in November, ma'am?
Hi. Thanks for having me on. Okay, so the first thing I want to say is that Gavin Newsom was losing. He was losing ground, losing his position, losing everywhere. You know that. You've watched it. And the fires came, and it sealed the deal. It sealed the deal. It got rid of Gavin Newsom. It was the worst political disaster in history in California. He was done. And when he couldn't
extract any more money from the federal government, $1.1 billion, he turned his sights to this redistricting thing, which is essentially a land grab. People don't understand redistricting, de-annexing, moving maps is what it is. And it's a land grab. Once you grab the land, you grab the people.
They imported 15 million immigrants into the California region, and they put them in all different towns, and then they redistrict, they count those heads, and then they get more seats. It's just a scam. We're in the middle of a scam.
So the Republican Party, there's been a lot of structural things that's made the Republican Party weak. You don't really have primaries anymore. So consistently the Republicans, although I think it's 38% to 42% of the state, has been grossly underrepresented in the assembly, in the congressional districts, and statewide offices.
Just how you're an activist is now coming to it and firing people up. How do people anticipate you're going to fight? Because I understand all that about Newsom. And I know he's not going to run on his policies as governor of California for the presidency. What he's done is gone to the playbook of they're leaderless and they don't think their leaders are fighting for them.
What he's done is try to mimic President Trump with the memes and with the smack talk. And he's using this. 26, the redistricting to basically propel himself to the front of the Democratic primary as a fighter. So how do you anticipate people in California, given that we don't have a great track record of you have you have more MAGA in California than any state in the union?
But just structural issues and the fact that you haven't had leaders who really want to go to the mat, we haven't won a lot. So how are the grassroots, how are people like you going to turn this around when, do not underestimate Gavin Newsom. He's a very cunning, a very sly individual who now has the entire media in back of him because they are looking for something to stop President Trump.
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Chapter 7: How does the California political landscape affect MAGA supporters?
And we're out of the conversation. I mean, I think, you know, we're out of the conversation completely. There's never a minute that we are involved in anything federally in California. We're completely blocked because of Gavin Newsom's relationship with Donald Trump. And President Trump and President Trump's home rule idea would save California.
I haven't had a close eye on that for a long time, but that's intimidating to the Democrats. They're scared to have any kind of what they want to call martial law when all it is is a tough on crime act. We have no police officers. We have 8,500 police for like 15 million people. It's insane. You're on hold on 911 and they're like, what is your emergency? We're like, you're our emergency.
They don't answer the phone. If Donald Trump was here, if there was some sort of containment of our crime, look, every crime bill that's passed, including Prop 36, they kick it out when it gets to the top level. We have smash and grab here. You're allowed to steal $1,000 worth of stuff with absolutely zero repercussion. And with our burned-down towns, we have people just squandering.
squatting, it's sleeping everywhere. And they want to say, no, don't look over here. But it's 100% true. We have people here that can manage that. We turn the state. But we have to be in the conversation before November. We can't wait till after November. And you know, and I know there's no support for GOP here. I'm going to the GOP convention over the 4th, 5th, 5th and 6th. There's no money.
I'm talking to people that want to run. They don't have any money. They don't have any support because there's no GOP support in California. We need money here in California to support conservative policy. Without backing, they can't do it. And I am one person. I am one person backing conservative policy. I'm not interested in backing deals with lobbyists so that I can buy land.
That's the backing that we get here. land developers and people that are looking to game the system. We need real policymakers and backing for real policymakers in California to turn the state. And we don't have it because we're out of the conversation. If Trump's here now walking through the streets and saying hi, people would shake hands and be so happy.
And the conservatives would come out from their homes. Right now they're hiding in their homes. If I wear a MAGA hat, I don't have any friends in California. Needless to say, I see this is what costs all of this. Look around you.
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Chapter 8: What actions are being taken to mobilize voters against Gavin Newsom?
There's nothing left to lose. All your houses are gone. All your money is gone. You have no representation. Gavin's not here. Karen's not here. None of them are around. Altadena, it's 19% black. It's wiped out. Two generations, three generations, middle-class Americans lost their homes. They're not talking about that.
They're downtown wiping graffiti off of the wall from the people that they brought into the state and saying, oh, look, we're cleaning up LA. I should leave. That's what they're doing.
Are you an advocate of President Trump? You know, Washington, D.C., he's completely changed Washington, D.C. in, I think, 10 or 12 days now there. And it's just been reported this morning that folks are talking to governors. They're really working through a quite detailed plan for Chicago. Right. But that L.A. and in New York are on the are on the list. Are you an advocate of President Trump?
doing in Los Angeles, what he's done in Washington, D.C., of actual federalizing the National Guard and sending them in to not simply augment local police, but actually to take over some of the policing activities, ma'am?
Okay, so yes, Steve, and this is a very important subject. When the fires happened, we had National Guard. National Guard was here and they stayed for four months. They closed the Palisades. They had checkpoints. And a lot of people in the beginning were upset. But by the time they left, I cannot tell you how much we missed them. It wasn't just the presence. It was the organization.
It was the politeness. They were so gracious and so polite. They didn't operate like our police department. Our police department is terrified. We have not supported our police department and they have been stripped of any of their rights to govern the thing that they've been hired to do. The police, these people that sign up to be police care about their communities.
And when you strip them of the right to do their job, they're in danger every day. And what happened when National Guard came here and everybody knows it, no one's going to deny it. It sorted it out right away. It made everybody stop. Crime ceased. It was the presence of it all. So if anyone wants to tell me they don't want National Guard here, that's not true. That's not true.
They might not want to say it out loud. I'm not afraid to. We need them here. This whole thing is run amok, okay? Amok. You know how they deal with it? They say, don't go outside with jewelry on. That's their idea of how to handle it. Maybe you shouldn't go outside with jewelry on. Do this. Park your cars on...
Keep your windows open and don't leave anything in them so they don't smash your windows. That's our crime. That's our policing.
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