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Newly released deposition transcripts acquired by the Wall Street JournalrevealedThat the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, testified under oath that he breached attorney-client confidentiality by providing information from a previous client to a plaintiff who was suing them.

This occurs as Paxton competes in a fierce primary battle for the Republican Party’s Senate nomination against sitting Senator John Cornyn, who is behind him in most surveys. President Donald Trump had previously been contemplating an endorsement of Cornyn to help him, but now seems to have lost interest in supporting him.

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The testimony represented an unusual moment when Paxton was required to respond to questions under oath,” the report stated. “It stayed confidential when the case’s judge, who had contributed to Paxton’s wife, state Senator Angela Paxton, postponed deciding on its confidentiality for over four years until the case was resolved in 2023.

One of the points mentioned in the deposition, as reported by the Journal, is that he admitted to providing information he was ethically required to keep private.

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Charles Loper III, the trustee of Paxton’s blind trust, filed a lawsuit against Byron Cook, a former business partner,alleging fraud by Unity Resources, an energy investment firm. Paxton was not a defendant in the lawsuit, but had previously served as Unity’s lawyer, board member, and investor,” the report stated. In the deposition, “Lawyers questioned Paxton about providing Unity’s records to his own attorney Mitch Little — who was also representing Loper in the lawsuit against Unity — rather than to Unity directly. ‘I’m certain I did,’ Paxton responded regarding giving the communications to Little, explaining that he did so to check if they were confidential.”

Legal ethics experts refused to review the deposition as it is subject to a protective order, but noted that sharing former client communications with anyone—particularly someone suing the client—breaches attorney-client confidentiality,” stated the report. “Additionally, they mentioned that records are the client’s property and cannot be withheld.

Paxton’s campaign spokesperson, Nick Maddux, refuted the report, stating, “The Wall Street Journal has been trying hard to serve as a tool for the Cornyn campaign over the past year, but this instance is truly the most extreme.”