Scott Hall, the first defendant to take a plea deal in the Georgia election-racketeering case against Donald Trump and 18 other defendants, is among the last-minute donors to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign, filings show.
Hall made a $7,000 contribution to Paxton’s campaign on Feb. 28, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. He listed an Atlanta address and gave his employer’s name as Anytime Bail Bonding Inc.
Paxton, a prominent Trump ally, is running in a heated Republican primary to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who’s associated with the old-guard GOP.
For those who need a history lesson on Hall, the bail bondsman was one of the defendants who faced up to 20 years in prison over Georgia state allegations he and others involved in Trump’s legal team schemed to use stolen data to decertify the 2020 presidential contest.
Georgia’s indictment accused Hall of being present at the Coffee County elections office in early 2021 and facilitating a tech firm’s access to voting equipment so it could copy confidential data. Hall faced seven felony conspiracy counts, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit election fraud, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy and intent to defraud the state.
In fall of 2023, Hall skirted potential prison time by pleading guilty to five misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference. He was ordered to serve five years’ probation, pay a $5,000 fine and do 200 hours of community service.
Paxton, who leads Cornyn in recent polls, positioned himself as a tireless Trump ally and frequently parrots the president’s widely disproven lies that the 2020 election was stolen.
Indeed, Paxton even spoke at Trump’s “Save America” rally, which preceded the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
As Texas attorney general, Paxton filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the election results from four battleground states won by president-elect Joe Biden. Legal experts widely ridiculed the filing, calling it “preposterous” and a “publicity stunt.”
Despite its conservative majority, the high court refused to take up Paxton’s suit.
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