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Senator Rand Paul has had a number of rather interesting rivalries. Around May of last year, there was an unlikely feud between him and former pop star, Richard Marx. This was in reference to a threatening letter and an unidentified white powder being sent to Paul’s home and the more than likely possibility that Marx promoted and encouraged the threats. Marx’s tweet has since been deleted. Though that may not be an indictment on its face, it does seem at least an admission of the possibility that he encouraged the threats.
Additionally, Dr. Paul had an ongoing feud with the much-venerated Dr. Anthony Fauci. In fact, we just reported last month that Paul has warned Fauci that should the GOP take the house in November, Fauci will be subject to testify under owe, one way or another.
Now, it is being reported by ConservativeBrief that:
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, like many Republicans, was outraged by the FBI’s unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
So much so, in fact, that he’s moving to ensure that nothing the Justice Department obtained from the raid can be used to jam up the former president and indict him.
According to Monday reports, the Kentucky Republican will publicly call for repealing the century-old Espionage Act which the DOJ reportedly may use to charge Trump with illegally possessing classified materials.
Paul’s move to ditch the Espionage Act comes amid questions over whether documents in Trump’s possession were actually classified; he has said he declassified everything shortly before leaving office, which is a long-standing presidential prerogative.
“The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment,” Paul tweeted without mentioning the former president specifically.
The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment.
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 13, 2022
Repeal the Espionage Act – The Future of Freedom Foundation https://t.co/3KCgujpS9z
Paul included a link to a piece published at the Future of Freedom Foundation that calls for repealing the law from 2019.
In it, Jacob G. Hornberger, the foundation’s founder and president, makes the case that the statute is “tyrannical” and has been used in the past to punish government whistleblowers:
World War I is the gift that just keeps on giving. Although the U.S. government’s intervention into this senseless, immoral, and destructive war occurred 100 years ago, the adverse effects of the war continue to besiege our nation. Among the most notable examples is the Espionage Act, a tyrannical law that was enacted two months after the U.S. entered the war and which, unfortunately, remained on the books after the war came to an end. In fact, it is that World War I relic that U.S. officials are now relying on to secure the criminal indictment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks head who released a mountain of evidence disclosing the inner workings and grave wrongdoing on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, especially with respect to the manner in which it has waged it undeclared forever wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
“The law converted anyone who publicly criticized the draft or attempted to persuade American men to resist the draft into felons. And make no mistake about it: U.S. officials went after such people with a vengeance, doing their best to punish Americans for doing nothing more than speaking,” Hornberger continued.
A former Trump national security figure, Kash Patel, has argued that Trump declassified the documents he had with him at Mar-a-Lago because, like Assange, “he thought the American public should have the right to read” them.
“Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” Patel, a former Department of Defense official under Trump, told Breitbart News.
So, Rand Paul soldiers on into the next feud. This battle seems to be a great deal more noble than a twitter tussle with a former pop star. It does seem that Dr. Paul has gotten a great deal of respect, at least from Conservative circles, for his open and loud contempt for Fauci and his policies. This contempt is certainly understandable and, indeed, shared. Follow The Raging Patriot for more on this story as it develops.
FBI (Flush Bureau of Investigation) !