Rand Paul says US Capitol Police have arrested a man who threatened to murder the Republican senator from Kentucky and “chop up” his family “with an axe.”
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, the alleged perpetrator who is in police custody, made the threatening phone calls to Paul’s Bowling Green office.
Thank you to the US Capitol Police for their arrest of the man who recently threatened to kill my family and me.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 2, 2018
Capitol Police have declined to comment on the arrest as an investigation is ongoing. However, speaking to media at an event in Grayson County, Kentucky on Monday evening, Paul divulged that the threats involved murdering and chopping up Paul and his family with an axe.
“Capitol Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man who threatened to kill me and chop up my family with an axe,” Paul said.
“It’s just horrendous that we have to deal with things like this,” he said, adding that he’s “becoming more and more aware that we have these real threats out there. He was referring to several incidents in the last year where Paul was “attacked personally” on one occasion and “shot at” on another.
Sen Rand Paul describes threat from man who he says claimed he would chop up the senator’s family w/ an axe. @RandPaul describes his thoughts w/ this happening months after being attacked in his yard & the baseball practice shooting. @WHAS11 pic.twitter.com/xx581BlFj7
— Chris Williams (@chriswnews) July 2, 2018
In November 2017, Paul received injuries after a lawn-side fracas with a neighbor resulted in Paul breaking six ribs while he was out mowing his lawn.
The neighbor in question, Rene Boucher, tackled Paul due to a dispute over lawn debris. A registered Democrat, Boucher denied that the incident was politically motivated and that he simply had “had enough” of Paul’s unsightly tree branches, sticks and leaves that were piled up along the property line.
After pleading guilty to the assault, Boucher was sentenced to 30 days in prison.
In 2017 Paul was among a group of Republican lawmakers and staffers attending a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, ahead of the annual Congressional Baseball Game, when they were ambushed by gunman James T Hodgkinson.
While Paul escaped the incident unscathed, five people including two police officers and Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise were hospitalized with for injuries. Hodgkinson was killed during the incident.
Shame really as he is the least offensive political leader we have…
You’re an ass….
Reggie- YOU are not the whole ass…….just the asshole.
Rand is my senator, let the KY faction degrade his worthless ass.
I live in Kentucky, and I can say that Rand Paul is better than any of the Democrats they had running against him, like the Gay Blade Mayor Jim Gray of Lexington. All the Democrats in Kentucky want to talk about are gays, lesbians, and how the he-shes must be allowed to go into the Ladies Rest Room. They still can’t understand how they lost Kentucky after 96 years of power, and nowadays all that Democratic trash from Lexington and Louisville talk about are what racists and homophobes all the other Kentuckians are for not voting for that bullshit.
clinker- You may be right, I dunno, but that’s like saying the plague is better than AIDS. He is a neoCON and he struck out a long time ago. Try to overcome the left/right, Dem/Rep fairy tale and see the cabal for what it is……..criminals.
When blacks riot, cities burn.
When whites riot, continents burn.
Keep pushing you simplistic, infantile motherfuckers.
You won’t believe what’s happening to you even while it’s happening.
Actually,given Rand and his fathers views,am kind of surprised they have not had a “accident”.
Rand votes with the neocons half the time. If he converted to Judaism he would be safe. He is only a target because he is one of 100. His dad survived partly because he was only 1 of 435 and partly because he could be painted as a crazy old man (usually by republicans). Nevermind that Dr. Ron Paul is a brilliant economist, historian, physician, moralist, essayist and a gifted athlete who is only limited by a squeaky voice and a habit of speaking in run-on sentences.
And not a peep about the swastikas on the dais?
Glad you reminded me. I haven’t seen a reference to the holocaust for at least 15 minutes.