Sen. Rand Paul denounced Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for remarks that blamed President Trump for the continued violence in cities such as Portland and Seattle.
“I’d say Joe is confused,” Paul told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum on Monday night. “These are his supporters, and I haven’t heard Joe Biden or Kamala Harris come out and say what happened to my wife and I and the other two ladies that were with us was wrong. I haven’t heard one word of rebuke.”
“They’re afraid of these people also, and they’re afraid to rebuke them because these are their supporters,” the Kentucky Republican continued. “This is their base. The people attacking us, attacking the federal building — this is Joe Biden’s base. And he needs to disavow them.”
Paul was responding to comments Biden made in Pittsburgh earlier on Monday.
“The violence we’re seeing in Donald Trump’s America, these are not images of some imagined Joe Biden America in the future. These are images of Donald Trump’s America today. He keeps telling you if only he was president. It wouldn’t happen if he was president. He keeps telling us that he was president, you’d feel safe. Well, he is president, whether he knows it or not, and it is happening. It’s getting worse,” the former vice president said.
Paul was among those who were accosted last week while leaving Trump’s nomination acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention and lauded the police for protecting him and his wife during the confrontation.
“They all of a sudden saw me right as we got to the police, fortunately, or I don’t think we would have survived,” Paul said after the incident.
“They were shouting threats, you know, to us, to kill us, to hurt us, but they’re also saying, shouting, ‘Say her name, Breonna Taylor.’ And it’s like you couldn’t reason with this mob,” he added. “But I’m actually the author of the Breonna Taylor law to end no-knock raids, so the irony is lost on these idiots that they’re trying to kill the person who’s actually trying to get rid of no-knock raids … You’ve seen the pictures of what they do to you.”
