Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky narrowly escaped death last night as he was walking back to his hotel from the White House after Donald Trump’s RNC speech.
At 12:39 in the morning, Paul tweeted: “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob.”
Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 28, 2020
A crazed mob of over 100 people that tried to kill him?! That definitely sounds very, very scary. Not to mention, incredibly dangerous. We’re glad the antigay senator and his wife made it out alive.
Oh, wait… What’s that? There’s video, you say?
How about we take this to the next level?
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Why, yes. Yes, there is. And it turns out, Rand’s account of what happened is a complete fabrication.
Not long after he claimed he and his wife were nearly murdered in cold blood in the streets of Washington, DC, numerous videos began circulating that showed a very different scenario.
Footage shows Rand walking alongside his wife and completely surrounded by a wall of police while a group of about a dozen reporters and perfectly peaceful protestors snap photos, shout questions, and plead with the senator to speak up in support of Black Lives Matter.
There were no pitchforks. There were no torches. Neither Paul nor his wife were ever touched during the police escort, though one officer who was protecting them did get jostled by a protester at one point.
D.C. police officers had to escort @RandPaul to the Hotel Washington as dozens of demonstrators followed and jeered him. At least one person is being treated by protest medics for what appears to be an OC spray injury. pic.twitter.com/fOrKQ2C29D
— Clarence Williams (@nu1wcf) August 28, 2020
After the videos surfaced, people began calling out Paul on Twitter for being a liar and drama queen.
I watched the Rand Paul video. I saw an officer push an off-camera protester, a protester pushed back, the officer fell down and slightly bumped into Rand Paul. We don’t know why the officer pushed the protester. But Rand Paul appears to be lying about being “attacked” by anyone.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 28, 2020
Rand Paul is acting like he was somehow violated by a violent mob. Nobody touched him. He was just a little to close to the people he has shit all over by enabling Trump, for comfort.
He should be uncomfortable all the time until he upholds his oath.pic.twitter.com/fkdOxckPp8
— Bill Maxwell 😷 ByeDon2020 (@Bill_Maxwell_) August 28, 2020
US Senator Rand Paul is so unaccustomed to being confronted and held accountable, that protesters’ WORDS made him feel like he’s been “attacked.”
Paging Ron’s neighbor…
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 28, 2020
No one laid a finger on Rand Paul last night and we get incessant crying from conservatives.
Breonna Taylor was murdered in the middle of the night by plainclothes cops who lied to a judge to obtain a no knock warrant, and we get silence from conservatives.
— Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) August 28, 2020
Raise your hand if you think @RandPaul needs this. ✋ pic.twitter.com/FKk3U5zx6S
— Chip Franklin (@chipfranklin) August 28, 2020
People: GOVERNMENT SHOULD FEAR THE PEOPLE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, WHICH IS WHY I OPEN CARRY
[Rand Paul gets yelled at while walking down the street]
Same people: OK, SCARING POLITICIANS IS ANTI-AMERICAN AND SHOULD BE OUTLAWED
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 28, 2020
Rand Paul was elected by the people and works for the people. We pay his salary.
Last night was simply his annual performance review. And fuck him.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) August 28, 2020
Oh no! Rand Paul was surrounded by an angry mob. Meanwhile, Paul supported these angry white asshole mob in Michigan pic.twitter.com/v4Vy60eMbE
— 🔥Double Dee👠👠 (@DCdebbie) August 28, 2020
RAND PAUL LIVES IN DC AND HAS A CAR SERVICE. YOU KNOW THIS WAS STAGED, RIGHT?!?!
— Florida Chris (@chrislongview) August 28, 2020
So Rand Paul, lover of the Constitution, wet himself when a group of citizens exercised their right to free speech and sought redress from their representatives.
— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) August 28, 2020
Then this morning, Paul–looking awfully tired, we might add–doubled down on his “I was nearly killed!” narrative when he went on Fox & Friends to call for the “paid anarchists” who threatened his life to be imprisoned.
Seriously, this man can have a whole stadium of seats.
Related: Everyone’s talking about Melania’s venomous glare at Ivanka during the final night of the RNC
truthseeker
Why are they screaming at Rand Paul and demanding he say Breonna Taylor’s name?
Kangol2
Because he is one of two US Senators from Tennessee, and Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville, Tennessee Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove based on a no-knock warrant that took them to the wrong address, for a suspect who was already allegedly in custody.
The officers fired 20 rounds into Taylor’s apartment without announcing themselves, at Taylor and her boyfriend, who was licensed to carry a firearm, and who thought they were experiencing a home invasion!
That’s why!
Seek the truth, abandon the lies!
Cam
Why is Rand lying and claiming he was attacked to try to falsely paint protesters as violent?
There, I fixed your comment.
truthseeker
@Kangol2
Rand Paul and Breonna Taylor are now from Tennessee? And you tell me to seek the truth? Lol
My question was why are they screaming at Rand Paul when Rand Paul sponsored the “Justice for Breonna Taylor Act” which would prohibit no-knock raids. He actually did something and gets yelled at
Based on you not even knowing what state this happened in or about this legislation, you’re either dumb, biased, or both
Cam
@truthseeker
You still haven’t answered the question. Why did Rand Paul lie and claim violence and that his life was “Literally” saved.
Still waiting.
Kangol2
My error. Rand Paul is from Kentucky & Breonna Taylor was murdered by cops in Louisville, Kentucky!
There you go!
barryaksarben
You still here Troll? Rand Paul is a cowardly liar. He ls a pos as is anyone who supports him and his criminal political party led by a two bit hitler wannabe. Do you REALLY think anyone here will agree with you ? Or believe your lies? we are not the weak minded hillbillies from Kentucky that believe his lies. He and his dad are as phony as Trump and his family. He cares nothing for people unless they are rich white straight people and has proven it again and again while being physically threatened when anyone so much as looks his way with his too tight perm> A perm? In 2020? That alone makes me want to jostle him. Jostle him to death
Cam
Just so I have it right.
If you’re a Republican, people asking you questions, snapping pictures, and asking you about a murdered woman is a violent attack…
But a cop kneeling on an unarmed person’s neck, shooting somebody walking away 7 times in the back, or chocking somebody to death for selling cigarettes isn’t violent and is acceptable?
o.codone
“Chocking”? This proves one thing. You’re a Trump troll operating under 10 different screen names. Masquerading as a progressive while espousing right wing ideas like chocking. Also, that word is a well known QAnon signal. Just admit it Cam. Come clean dude, you ain’t fooling nobody. Hahahaha.
Cam
@o.codone
And the right wing troll account tries the BRILLIANT “I know you are but what am I?” tactic.
The adorable thing is, you didn’t attack me back with any of the other screenames I identified as troll screenames recently. You called me out from a completely different one, and exposed that the o.codone screename is ANOTHER screename owned by the same right wing troll account that seems to be obsessed with me.
Look, we get it buttercup, you’re here to defend racists and anti-LGBTQ bigots, the fact you keep getting exposed under all your different screenames enrages you.
Heywood Jablowme
o.codone has been posting here for years, maybe longer than Cam/DC Guy has. (So have I, I think.) Maybe there’s a way to find out such facts, although it doesn’t seem to be Google-able.
I’ve always thought that o.codone is one of the more, um, unusual Queerty commenters, but he doesn’t comment a lot on politics and his history is not that of a Trumper. If Cam/DC Guy wants to CALL him or anyone else a Trumper, he needs to back it up with more than a hysterical declaration how this or that or the other one is a multiple troll screenname, over and over and over, when there’s no way to *prove* such a thing one way or the other.
Even if it were true and there really is an anti-Cam troll, why does this anti-Cam troll focus so relentlessly on CAM, only Cam, and never on any of the dozens of us other anti-Trump commenters on Queerty? Why do they always pick on poor, poor Cam?
Another theory: is Cam making a convoluted, misguided bid for virtuous victimhood and sympathy, a la Jussie Smollett?
Here, I agree with Cam about Rand Paul. But I was unaware for instance of “chocking” being a QAnon thing. Never heard that before, maybe it’s significant! At least as significant as Cam simply declaring that ten or twenty commenters are the same one, with no evidence (and often, evidence the other way).
I’ve been posting anti-Trump comments here for YEARS. If someone wants to declare me a Trumper (ugh!) they better point out anything pro-Trump I’ve ever written. They won’t find it. Meanwhile, anyone is allowed to call out Cam/Sybil for his violations of the Queerty comment policy, his paranoia, his logical fallacies, and his self-centered and rather Trumpian disruptions of the site.
At first I thought Mr. Codone’s theory that Cam/Sybil is “a Trump troll operating under 10 different screen names” was pretty farfetched. Maybe not! At any rate I hope everyone here is more worried about QAnon than about someone supposedly being obsessed with Cam/DC Guy/Sybil.
o.codone
@Heywood. Thank you for the thoughtful deconstruction of the comments posted by Cam and me. Yes, I have been here for years and I think you have too. You’ll remember about 3 years ago that guy (Eduardo1985?) who posted incessantly, repeatedly, over and over, even commenting on his own posts until the editors finally cleansed the site, instituted a new comment policy and deleted that guy. This is what is happening again. Cam is always first to comment, then says the same thing over and over about everyone, they’re a Trump troll, they have multiple screen names, they are anti-gay extremists, catfishes, etc. It’s dragging the site down. Making it a place where Cam personally attacks people he hates or suspects of being trumpers. The editors need to review what’s going on here because, just like that eduardo1985 guy, Cam is going to drag this site down. BTW, yes, I probably *would* blow you.
Heywood Jablowme
Thanks, Mr. Codone! Of course, Cam is just going to think “we” are blowing ourselves.
I guess the fact that both of us have been posting here for years, on innumerable non-Cam subjects, well that just “proves” the diabolical plot to make things difficult for poor, poor Cam. It’s like Seinfeld where “Mom and Pop’s plan was to move into the neighborhood, establish trust for 48 years… and then run off with Jerry’s sneakers!”
There was another insane commenter too – Atticus Bennett! – remember? Oh the horror.
Observant
@Kangol2
Not to nitpick, but you’re off by one state.
Tennessee has its own issues, but Louisville and Rand Paul aren’t among them.
Mack
What I was going to say, it was Kentucky not Tennessee.
Kangol2
Yes, I corrected it. Kentucky. He is one of two US Senators from Kentucky and Breonna Taylor was murdered by cops in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mister P
A real libertarian who doesn’t like the government interference would be outraged by the police killing Breonna.
stillOnTheMark
A couple of years ago, Rand Paul was beaten up by his next-door neighbor. Had 5 broken ribs. An argument over a pile of brush. Now THAT’S an attack – not this! Perhaps he still has PTSD, poor thing.
Tartan
Rand Paul represents Kentucky. He’s an absolute fraud and dilettante. Did I mention that he’s a complete asshole? The apple did not fall far from the tree.
Seabelly
100 people tried to kill Rand Paul? That’s impossible – he doesn’t have that many neighbors!
amanwithanedge
attention whore.
hayesj
What a crybaby. He should never be able to go anywhere in peace for the rest of his miserable life. He’s a Trump cult member.
Mack
What was he doing any way wading into a group of protesters? Was he looking for someone else to sue?
Max
he’s a white senator, fearing all the ‘colored’ people shouting at him, making him uncomfortable.
he’s just a racist Karen, feigning danger. such a drama queen.
MISTERJETT
he didn’t get shot in the back seven times, did he?
Prax07
No but he should have been.
jckfmsincty
Kentucky has the two worst Senators in Washington. That’s saying a lot.
fredk
rose “ma” petrillo wants her perm back.
Michael007
I don’t remember when I’ve read so many falsehoods about a Queerty article. Comments jam packed with untruths and wild speculation. Rand Paul is my next door neighbor. He and his wife Kelly told me the whole story. Being surrounded by an unruly mob WAS the assault. They feared for their lives and that’s enough for me to know they had a right to speak out about it. They do not live in Washington, D.C. They live in Kentucky. They are magnificent people.
Ms. Taylor, from Louisville, was NOT murdered! She was killed during a gun battle between her boyfriend and the police. I actually know one of the policemen also, Officer Mattingly. I know for a fact, they yelled out numerous times for them to open the door of the apartment and before they could do anything bullets were shot at them through the door. They opened fire and busted the door down. Ms. Taylor was running down a hallway when both the police and her boyfriend were firing blindly at each other. He is a convicted criminal and drug dealer, was using her apartment to hide drug money and large quantities of drugs. She has been convicted several times before and has a string of “boyfriends” who are all known drug dealers.
Yes, it was unfortunate she got killed, but this is what happens when you run with scum. It outrages me to see all these accusations from people who have not ONE connection to Kentucky nor have any idea of the true story.
inbama
“es, it was unfortunate she got killed, but this is what happens when you run with scum.”
So everyone you’ve ever known must be in danger.
Heywood Jablowme
“He… was using her apartment to hide drug money and large quantities of drugs.” And yet there were no drugs found in the apartment.
Is there a dictionary that says “being surrounded by an unruly mob” = an “assault”?
nathan
Bullies are never able to face any kind of ‘confrontation’ – however gentle it might be. It amazes me that the Republican slime balls from Trump downward persist in telling lies about things when there is indisputable evidence contradicting their claims. You can subvert truth to a great degree, but not when you are being followed by dozens of television cameras and as many other print media cameras.
Considering what he and the other Trump enabling disgusting Senators have done in the last 4 years he is lucky that he was not ‘nearly killed’. From supporting the caging of young children to supprtig a racist, homo/transphobic, lying, corrupt ‘President’, the Senator is clearly trying to whip up public pity in an effort to retain his senatorial seat come November.
vinnieboiblue
If he was nearly killed, he would have been in a hospital with injuries to prove it. Face it, the rugrat is being nothing but a drama queen!