THIS LOOKS LIKE A PLOT BY THE MAGA-CRAZIES TO DESTROY CORNYN'S CHANCES AGAINST THAT CROOK KEN PAXTON ... TRUMP NOMINATED JEFFREY ANDERSON IN THE FIRST PLACE AND LATER EVEN RESUBMITTED THE NOMINATION

Trump ally unleashes furious attack on Texas senator John Cornyn over 'devious' plot to help Dem donor

 

By Ross Ibbetson 

 

Daily Mail

Mar 20, 2026

 

 

Trump, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L), responds to a question from the news media as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday

 

Texas Senator John Cornyn is under fire for undermining the MAGA agenda just as he desperately courts Donald Trump's endorsement in a brutal Republican primary fight.

The loyalty breach allegation centers on his backing of Jeffrey Anderson, a Democratic donor nominated in July to serve as US ambassador to the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization. 

The post is Senate confirmed, with Anderson's nomination requiring a hearing before the powerful Foreign Relations Committee. 

Cornyn is accused of trying to help Anderson sail through the nomination process without scrutiny over his liberal political leanings.

Cornyn called early reports of the hearing 'fake news' on Friday, but the committee later announced one will take place next Thursday, without listing nominees, fueling accusations he is behaving like a 'DC swamp rat.' 

A Trump official told the Daily Mail: 'The devious tricks being pulled in order to sneak in this guy's hearing belong in a Netflix drama.

'Isn't this the guy that donated to the Democrats and complained that the President should hurry up his nomination?' 

Anderson's nomination has languished since July 2025, returning to Trump's desk in January under a procedural Senate rule before the President resubmitted it days later. 

 

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, asks a question during the Senate Committee on Intelligence hearings to examine worldwide threats on Capitol Hill on Wednesday

 

The former Delta Air Lines pilot and US Navy veteran backed Nikki Haley's 2024 campaign and has donated to Democratic candidates, including one who ran against Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

The administration backed him as 'highly qualified' and a 'great choice to represent the President's America First foreign policy agenda in the international aviation community' when his Democratic donations were first reported last year. 

The battle over his nomination comes as Cornyn is being targeted by pro-Trump voices who claim that he is a RINO - a 'Republican in name only.'

Cornyn edged Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP Senate primary on March 3, taking 42.5 percent to Paxton's 40.8, with neither hitting the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. 

Both men had jostled for a Trump endorsement that has so far been withheld, with allies of each warning the White House not to damage the eventual nominee as Democrats build momentum nationally. 

The history between Trump and Cornyn is loaded.

The President called Cornyn 'weak, ineffective, and very bad for the Republican Party, and our Nation' in 2023, while Cornyn said ahead of last year's election, 'I think President Trump's time has passed him by.' 

Cornyn and the White House have been contacted for comment.