AP adds correction to Paxton home deduction story, AG says primary residence accusations untrue

The Associated Press has included a correction to a story earlier this week in which the wire service found upon reviewing public records for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, that mortgages they signed contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence.

The initial story also said the Paxtons received a homestead tax break for one of their homes in Austin.

The correction reads: "This story has been corrected to reflect that the Paxtons didn’t receive an impermissible homestead tax break in 2018 for one of their Austin homes. That benefit transferred to the Paxtons from a previous owner for the remainder of that year."

On Thursday, Paxton, who is also running in a GOP primary for Sen. John Cornyn's seat, denied reports that he claimed three homes as primary residences, vowing accountability for those who push the story.

"There will be accountability for this blatantly false story," he wrote on the social media platform X. "John Cornyn and his establishment Swamp allies pushed this fake news to slander me, and Cornyn even called for the feds to take me down. He wants me in prison, just like he wanted President Trump to be."

The wire service story also said listing all three houses as a primary residence gave the Paxtons low interest rates, saving them tens of thousands of dollars in payments over the life of the loans.

"There's already been many lies debunked and corrections issued," Paxton also post on X. "News outlets across Texas and the country are changing their stories now. Any outlets that keep this story up or publish a new one better be ready.