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TexasTowelie

(112,189 posts)
Mon May 24, 2021, 08:10 PM May 2021

Suspicious package sent to home of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul under investigation

Law enforcement is investigating a package with white powder sent to Sen. Rand Paul's Kentucky home.

The FBI's Louisville office "is working with the Warren County Sheriff's Office by providing forensic and technical support for this investigation," agency spokesman Tim Beam told The Courier Journal.

Capitol Hill police are also involved in the investigation, according to Politico, which first reported the news.

"I take these threats immensely seriously," Paul wrote on Twitter on Monday. "As a repeated target of violence, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family."

Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/rand-paul/2021/05/24/package-sent-rand-paul-kentucky-senator-home-under-investigation/7422779002/

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Suspicious package sent to home of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul under investigation (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2021 OP
I bet it's loaded with vaccine shelshaw May 2021 #1
Said by a c-list senator. 33taw May 2021 #2
The prick probably mailed it to himself for publicity Beachnutt May 2021 #3
+1 2naSalit May 2021 #7
No comment is probably the best response... hlthe2b May 2021 #4
Boxing gloves from the neighbor? MyOwnPeace May 2021 #5
Maybe you should try not to be such an asshole, Senator Walleye May 2021 #6
The UPS man probably dropped the box with Rand's latest coke shipment in it and it leaked. hadEnuf May 2021 #8

Walleye

(31,022 posts)
6. Maybe you should try not to be such an asshole, Senator
Mon May 24, 2021, 08:22 PM
May 2021

Doesn’t he ever wonder why he gets so many threats of violence

hadEnuf

(2,190 posts)
8. The UPS man probably dropped the box with Rand's latest coke shipment in it and it leaked.
Mon May 24, 2021, 09:01 PM
May 2021

Poor Rand had to say something to cover his ass....

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