Another day, another claim by Rand Paul that his life is in very grave danger.
The FBI and Capitol Hill police are currently investigating a suspicious package sent to the antigay senator’s home in Kentucky earlier this week.
The large envelope containing white powder arrived on Paul’s front doorstep Monday morning. An initial test determined the substance was not dangerous, but that didn’t stop him and his wife, Kelley, from rushing to Twitter to say someone was trying to kill them.
I have been targeted multiple times now, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to advocate for violence against me and my family! https://t.co/WhTtswUI91
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 25, 2021
I got the death threat letter and called the FBI. This kind of violent threat is fomented against Rand daily by @ReallyAmerican1 , a Dem PAC that pays thugs like @mmpadellan to celebrate the assault that nearly killed Rand. @DNC ignores. @richardmarx was inciting more violence
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) May 25, 2021
The sender of the package is unknown, but Paul thinks he knows who it might be and it’s none other than adult contemporary singer Richard Marx, best known for his 1989 worldwide hit single “Right Here Waiting.”
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Paul took to Twitter to accuse Marx of being out to get him after he tweeted on Sunday: “I’ll say it again: If I ever meet Rand Paul’s neighbor I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume.”
Marx’s tweet, which has since been removed, was in reference to that time in 2017 when Paul got into a fist fight with neighbor, who ended up breaking several of the senator’s ribs.
“I take these threats immensely seriously,” Paul said in a statement this week. “As a repeated target of violence, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family. Just this weekend Richard Marx called for violence against me and now we receive this powder filled letter.”
C-list celebrity's tweet inciting violence against Rand Paul was taken down by @Twitter for violating its rules. @playbookdc https://t.co/iis0u9YElO pic.twitter.com/2OvsGe0uOB
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 26, 2021
But this isn’t the first time Paul has claimed to be the target of deadly violence.
Last August, he said a “crazed mob” tried to murder him and his wife in cold blood while they were walking from the White House to their hotel after Donald Trump’s RNC speech.
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
Video of the incident, however, did not corroborate Paul’s story and, in fact, showed the exact opposite.
Marx hasn’t responded to requests for comment about his beef with the senator, but Kelley Paul did take to Twitter yesterday to thank everyone for their “prayers and messages of encouragement” following her and her husband’s brush with death.
To all of the kind people who have offered us your prayers and messages of encouragement today, thank you from the bottom of my heart! ?? pic.twitter.com/JzVOhGrJPM
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) May 26, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
BoomerMyles
Good news. Rush Limbaugh is still dead.
LumpyPillows
LOL
Buckjohnson
Better news. You’re an idiot.
LumpyPillows
Is there a Go Fund Me page for this? I’d like to contribute.
Cam
The problem with all of Rand Paul’s victim playing is, as I understand it, the package was delivered less than 12 hours after Richard Marx’s tweet.
So if Paul is going to cry victim he may want to try to blame one of the other 10,000 people who said negative things about him more than half a day before the event.
But that’s all Republicans know how to do, push racism and bigotry then cry victim.
Buckjohnson
Uh, you do realize in the last couple years he was attacked twice from behind (the only way a Leftist does it), and had a couple death threats, right? Or were you in your safe place fixing your Man Bun because your mom sad you need to get a job,?
bud278
@buckjohnson : Oh, Rand, I always thought you might be a closet case. And here you are defending yourself on Queerty. Well, I say “welcome”.
Fahd
Gee that’s too bad he’s having these feelings.
I thought this was Josh Hawley’s shtick, but maybe he got it from Paul. Maybe it’s a Republican thing. I know cults use this technique to reinforce the us vs. them bonds of the cult members.
Mack
Just an F rated Senator trying to get attention to himself.
hrnpip
Said the E-list politician.
PoetDaddy
“Just this weekend Richard Marx called for violence against me and now we receive this powder filled letter.”
Huh.
How is this not exactly the same as… “Five minutes ago the President urged an armed mob to attack the Capitol and now we have dead police officers in the building.”
Republicans are not very good at thinking.
Heywood Jablowme
Repugs are always complaining about Marxists but I didn’t realize they meant Richard Marx.
boblrice
Yes! There it is.
stafcoyote
Slander from Rand Paul. ‘Tis a pity Twitter is immune from suit. Congress should repeal the immunity Big Tech enjoys.
OhPlease
Guess all that chanting to Aqua Buddha was wasted time…
MissTerri
I hope they catch these vile people!!!
boblrice
@MissTerri what country are you from? Just curious.
mailliw110
After reading your other insane posts…what “vile people” are you talking about?
BoomerMyles
Rand Paul couldn’t even get licensed from the national medical board.
Prax07
It’s really a shame none of the “attempts” actually worked. That’d be some great news right there.
cuteguy
Can we cancel Rand Paul? He’s a quack in more ways than one
Invader7
Desperately DELUDED, mentally UNBALANCED Neo NAZI FASCISTS republithugs playing the victim – as usual..They’re so good at it & have nothing to show for all the time they’re wasting in DC. They’re all pathetic , small / limp dick, spineless, brown nose Drumpf PUSSIES. The whole party is TOTALLY corrupt and corrosive. Their rhetoric is stuck on a very dated playback loop .They have NOTHING original to offer America. And YES, they’re traitors. They want to install a one party FASCIST system in this country. That is what 6 Jan. 2021 was about !!!! So Mr & Mrs Paul can just suck it !!!
Tombear
Damn, Paul could have been gone forever!
SPEEDOSWIMMER
Too bad they survived…
Jimmy
Richard Marx??? Hahahahahaha!!! Rand Paul, you have always been an obnoxious asshole. I loved that you got your ass kicked by your neighbor, you piece of shit!