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Matthew Choi The Texas Tribune

Matthew Choi The Texas Tribune

Matthew Choi is a Washington correspondent for The Texas Tribune. He previously covered energy and climate policy at Politico, where he wrote the Morning Energy newsletter and covered campaign events as a breaking news reporter during the 2020 presidential election and the Mueller investigation. Before joining Politico, Matthew was a two-time reporting fellow at The Texas Tribune based in Austin, reporting on education, health care, immigration, guns, agriculture and land management. He graduated from Northwestern University where he studied journalism and political science and was managing editor of The Daily Northwestern. Matthew is a native of Northern Virginia and speaks both French and English. In his free time, Matthew enjoys cooking French country food while listening to Simon and Garfunkel.

Donald Trump claims credit for saving Ken Paxton

By: - September 18, 2023

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is claiming credit for Attorney General Ken Paxton’s acquittal. Posting on his Truth Social platform Monday, Trump claimed that his sporadic defenses on social media for his long-time ally helped sway the course of Paxton’s impeachment trial. “Yes, it is true that my intervention through TRUTH SOCIAL saved Texas […]