Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday blasted a Travis County grand jury’s indictment of him as a politically motivated effort “to rip away at the very fabric of our state’s constitution.”

Perry said political differences shouldn’t be settled with indictments. “This indictment amounts to nothing more than an abuse of power and I cannot and I will not allow that to happen.”

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