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Rand Paul rips Trump, fellow Republicans over drug boat strikes #shorts
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0:35Now PlayingSen. Rand Paul ripped into his fellow Republicans Tuesday over their tepid response to the Trump administration’s series of strikes against suspected drug-running vessels, saying his colleagues on Capitol Hill “don’t give a s— about these people in the boats.”
“We’ve been blowing up these people in boats off the coast of Venezuela. They’re accused of running drugs, but nobody knows their names and nobody’s put up any evidence,” Paul (R-Ky.) said during an apperance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.
“And so what I think is bizarre is I hear mostly my Republican colleagues say, ‘Well, we shouldn’t have to—how do we know they’re not armed?’ And it’s like, but there’s this thing called presumption of innocence,” the former opthamologist added. “They say it doesn’t apply. Well, it actually always has applied on the oceans. We have always had drug interdictions, but we have always stopped boats and asked to search them. If they flee or shoot at the Coast Guard, they will get shot and blown up. But it’s usually an escalatory sort of steps.”
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