House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter suggested the man who attacked Sen. Rand Paul in 2018 was justified in doing so.
“Rand Paul’s neighbor was right,” Christine Pelosi tweeted on Sunday, hours after the Kentucky Republican revealed he tested positive for COVID-19.
Rand Paul’s neighbor was right https://t.co/hjKjVq0Hwx
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) March 22, 2020
Pelosi was reacting to Sen. Mitt Romney’s announcement that he was going into self-quarantine after having close contact with Paul, who continued showing up to the Senate and other congressional events for days in between getting tested and receiving his results.
The younger Pelosi’s reaction was a reference to when Paul’s Bowling Green neighbor, Rene Boucher, was charged with assaulting a member of Congress after tackling Paul while he was mowing his lawn two years ago. The senator suffered five broken ribs as a result and required surgery to have part of his lung removed.
Boucher told prosecutors the attack was not politically motivated.
Paul, who says he has been asymptomatic, has come under scrutiny for not going into self-quarantine while awaiting his coronavirus test results.
“For those who want to criticize me for lack of quarantine, realize that if the rules on testing had been followed to a tee, I would never have been tested and would still be walking around the halls of the Capitol. The current guidelines would not have called for me to get tested nor quarantined. It was my extra precaution, out of concern for my damaged lung, that led me to get tested,” he defended himself on Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone who has symptoms of the COVID-19 virus should self-isolate and get tested.
