Donald Trump can’t believe it. This isn’t a betrayal to take lightly.
And a fellow Republican stabbed Trump in the back in the most asinine way.
In a fiery television appearance, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul delivered a no-holds-barred verdict on his Oklahoma colleague.
Speaking Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s America Reports, the Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman made clear that certain personal flaws disqualify a man from protecting the nation’s borders and enforcing its laws.
Paul zeroed in on deep character problems that go far beyond policy disagreements. He argued that unchecked rage and a casual attitude toward brutality make someone dangerous at the helm of the agency tasked with keeping terrorists, cartels, and illegal invaders out of our communities.
“I think his anger issues that he has as an individual, and his celebration of the violence that happened to me, but also his justification of the violence when he’s, you know, engaged in-, he was ready to have a fistfight in a committee. When they asked him, after he had cooled off days later, you know, would he reject any of that? Does he regret any of it,” Paul stated.
“And he said, no, he had no regrets. In fact, he referred to historical examples of violence as justification. Nobody really in the modern age that I know of — other than Markwayne Mullin — is justifying political scien-, political violence as, ‘Oh well, we need a manly way to settle our differences and sometimes people just need to be punched in the mouth.’ That, to me, is bizarre, and I think it makes him unfit to lead federal law enforcement.”
Host Sandra Smith then pressed the obvious question: “So can you vote for him?”
Paul’s reply left zero room for doubt:
“No. I mean, an apology might have had a chance, but he’s had several chances. I talked to him privately and he referred to it that we had political differences. And today he said we should set aside our political differences. Well, political differences would be, I’m against the refugee welfare program, and I’ve told him he’s for it. That’s a political difference.”
“But if I wished violence on his family, that wouldn’t be acceptable. And if he says the violence that happened to me, where I had six ribs broken, my lung damaged, part of my lung removed, two pneumonias. If he thinks that’s justifiable and he can readily understand it, he can completely understand it.”
“I think that makes him unacceptable and unfit to hold office.”
In the end, this exchange shows that there are growing rifts in the Republican Party.
These desperately need to be fixed before the November midterms.
