Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) took to ABC on Sunday morning with George Stephanopoulos to discuss election integrity of the 2020 election, in a discussion which immediately devolved into an inquisition during which Paul was repeatedly pressed to disavow clams that the election was stolen.
Paul not only pushed back – he put Stephanopoulos in his place, accusing the host of ‘inserting yourself in the middle’ and ‘forgetting who you are as a journalist.’
Stephanopoulos began by asking Paul to admit the “election was not stolen” – to which Paul responded by saying “The debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur. We never had any presentation in court where we ever looked at the evidence…”
Paul continued: “There were several states in which the law was changed by the Secretary of State and not the state legislature. To me those are clearly unconstitutional and I think there’s still a chance those do finally work their way up to the Supreme Court.”
“No election is perfect,” Stephanopoulos shot back, telling Paul there were “86 challenges filed by President Trump, all were dismissed”. As Paul tries to argue that many cases were dismissed for lack of standing and not due to examination of evidence, Stephanopoulos responds: “Can’t you just say the words ‘this election wasn’t stolen’?”
‘75% of Republicans want to look at election integrity,’ Paul responds. Stephanopoulos responds by saying that those 75% agree with him because they were “fed a big lie” from the President.
Paul pushed back, telling Stephanopoulos: “You immediately say everything’s a lie instead of saying there’s two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you’d interview someone else who said there wasn’t. But now you insert yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I’m saying is a lie.”
“You’re saying there’s no fraud and it’s all been investigated and that’s just not true,” Paul continues, with Stephanopoulos arguing at the same time. Paul then goes into specifics, detailing irregularities in states in like Wisconsin. “I plan on spending the next two years going around, state to state, fixing these problems,” Paul continues. “Let’s have an open debate. It’s a free country!”
“There has been no thorough examination of all states to see what problems we had and see if we could fix them,” Paul says, responding to Stephanopoulos’ claims that Bill Barr pronounced there was “no widespread election fraud”.
“There’s two sides to every story,” Paul says. “Interview someone on the other side, but don’t insert yourself into the story to say we’re all liars.”
“You’re forgetting who you are as a journalist if you think there’s only one side,” Paul says. “A journalist would hear both sides and there are two sides to this story.”
You can watch the entire 6 minute exchange here:
Election integrity aside, Paul has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration in recent days. On Saturday, we noted Paul’s interview with Fox host Sean Hannity, where he pummeled the Biden administration’s decision to push for a $15 minimum wage increase that could put 4 million people out of work – leading the Kentucky Republican to exclaim:
“‘Why does Joe Biden hate Black teenagers?’ … Why does Joe Biden want to destroy all of these jobs?”
Paul comments come amid ramblings from various leftist economists who insist that there’s no impact on employment from such a drastic minimum wage hike…
…common sense (and historical experience) for anyone who has ever run an actual business is that raising costs on the lowest-skilled workers in your organization will ripple all the way up, forcing either higher prices to the end-user (eradicating the ‘living wage’ improvement) and or forcing layoffs as management hold margins and reduce costs (the least-skilled first).
Historically speaking, the black unemployment rate is twice that of whites, while minimum wage increases – as we’ve shown repeatedly over the last week – correlate with spikes in job losses just about every single time.
That’s not an “alternative” fact, that’s the awkward reality of ‘unintended consequences’ from nanny-state intervention write large for the last 70 years.
Paul also blasted Biden for canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline:
“It’s kind of a strange beginning to an administration,” Paul said.
“You’re going to put your best foot forward and the first thing you say is, ‘This is how I’m going to kill jobs’ … ‘I’m going to kill thousands of jobs of the Keystone pipeline with ending it.'”
You can watch that full interview here:
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Rand Paul is about the only member of Congress with more than two brain cells.
And a vertebrae or two.
Which, as usual with the GOP fails exactly where it counts for the DS
And a spine !
Wasn’t it Mrs. Clinton that advised, “Never Concede!”.
Seemed related somehow….
Just more gaslighting from the Hillary Clinton lackey.
Who signs his paychecks?
Of course a guy from the AFL-CIO. Unions LOVE minimum wage increases as they simply empower union employees more and more. When the supply of truly affordable labor is destroyed by higher wages, the disadvantage of union labor becomes less and less. The “protected” always love the protectionist policies, and the minimum wage is not only hugely protectionist, it, like Davis-Bacon, is about harming people of color on purpose.
These 10,000 Honduras and Guatemalan men coming to the country will be willing to work for $10/hr with no taxes, worker’s comp or unemployment insurance, so there will not be an unskilled labor shortage.
Don’t forget Nicarashithole.
While the 40 million illegals Biden amnesties will then be competing against American blacks and poor Whites for jobs.
Think about this: 90% of the journalists working in this country right now would have no problem working for the Nazi regime or the former Soviet Union as purveyors of propaganda. Thank God their are people like Mr. Paul to call them on it.
Calling them “journalists” is a misnomer. Stephie is a TV personality, nothing more.
Great that Paul called the little weasel out. Not so great that Paul voted for electoral approval of Biden. Talking out of both sides of one’s mouth isn’t a sign of integrity.
Mornin’ Mygirl…maybe
Admittedly, I have been predisposed to view the entire complex/system in DC as a corrupt behemoth my entire adult life, I still found myself (ourselves incl. mrs.) going to the polls twice for the Emperor….and hoping some parking tickets would be issued at least.
Nada….no one in government is held to account. Politicians (and the newcomer Trump) haven’t been held to account in my memory, except for a sacrificial conviction now and again …..Blago style.
None of these people seem to have any integrity, including Trump. I believe the dark forces of those blood suckers have been working towards a multi generational goal that is fast approaching, and that does NOT include making ‘Amaruca’ great again.
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—–=== smell that world reserve currency burning?
The “NAZI” regime had the happy coincidence of attempting to stop the Jewish bankers’ New World Order… by any means necessary, propaganda be damned. That is why today, Hitler’s name MUST be denigrated and made THE “mad dictator” pariah, though you never hear THAT appellation for Stalin, Mao. I would submit that NOBODY you talk to could give you even the most bare bones facts: dates, places, circumstances of the supposed “Holocaust.”
The Marxists don’t want anyone to put two and two together. Blame Hitler and nazi, nazi, nazi and ignore all the horrors and genocides created by….communists.
But more importantly that ((protected group)) dont want you to question the bullshit narrative that they’ve created & even passed laws to protect. Ask David Irving.
They both sucked. and murdered lots of people.
• Communist China under the stewardship of Mao Zedong holds the world record of being the most killing regime in human history to the tune of 65 million people killed, including 30 million during the Great Leap Forward alone.
• Second is the Soviet Union, with 29 million deaths. This breaks down into 20 million under Stalin, 9 million under Lenin and 7 million in the Holodomor.
• Hitler comes in third with official estimates of the total dead ranging from 10 million to 12.5 million.
• Ten other countries killed somewhere between 1 million and 10 million of their own people between 1900 and 1987:
o Japan under Emperor Tojo
o Russia during Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution
o Pasha’s Turkey
o Pol Pot in Cambodia
o Kim Il-Sung’s North Korea
o Mariam’s Communist regime in Ethiopia
o Gowon in Nigeria
o Bangladesh under Yahya Khan
o Saddam Hussein in Iraq
o Vietnam under Ho Chi Min
o Idi Amin in Uganda.
Buttgig told the union workers who are making $40-$60/hr that they can go find another job. Of course, $12 – $15 per hour probably is not high enough to pay the mortgage, but do not worry, Xiden will stop evictions until things turn around.
Xiden is the best name for SlowJo. 2nd best… “KamalJoBama
In my personal opinion, Xiden sounds too much like a Japanese fighting robot character, or something. I prefer to call him Chowder Head and sometimes The Pretender or The Usurper and occasionally the Commander in Thief. I called Barry the Resident, because he never presided over anything, and I intend to call him that, too. The other one is Kneepads, Kamel Toe, or The Uslurper.
I find ‘Da Ho’ is more than adequate.
How about Fuck & Suck?
Why don’t they learn to code?
While I have to qualify that I did not like Trump, I could still see the fraud that was going on. They want people to believe the 2016 election was a fraud but the 2020 election was the “most secure in history” when nothing was changed about the voting system in the past 20 years.
They will continue to try to hammer into people that there was no fraud. See what Stephonomplumosysls tried to do?
Stephanopoulos responds: “Can’t you just say the words ‘this election wasn’t stolen’?”
They just want us to say UNCLE
Exactly. That shitty little weasel was just trying to rope-a-dope Rep. Paul into going on record. This way down the road, they could go back and say ‘but but but, look!!! he SAID!’
Classic gaslighting. My ex pulls that constantly.
Journalist….bahahahah
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
The exchange at the end when he was daring him to say it was stolen made me chuckle. I would’ve gone the Bull Durham route when the ump is daring kevin costner to call him a cocksucker…a classic scene.
George Stephanopolous is a long-time member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), along with Jake Tapper, Joe Scarborough, Katie Couric, and nearly every other player on the “Biden team”. See lists at the CFR website.
Even though I’ve never seen one, I’ve always thought that Little Stephie looks like a stoned queer.
Didn’t Rand Paul cast his vote to “certify” the electoral votes for Biden? If he did, he’s just another Traitor for whom there is a special place in Hell reserved for Senators from Kentucky. If he did, who gives a fuck about anything he has to say?