As Trump Applauded Approvingly, Rand Paul Urged Media To ‘Print’ Whistleblower Name

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) gave President Trump and his latest unprecedented gambit a full-throated endorsement at a campaign rally in Kentucky on Monday evening.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1260240

“We also now know the name of the whistleblower. … I say tonight, to the media, ‘do you job and print his name!'”

There’s a special place in hell for these people …

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Oh, goodie!!!

Another one that can go to prison for violating or proposing violation of WB laws.

The prisons will be full alright, but not of drug users.

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Rand Paul went to the ‘dark side’ long, long ago. He won’t be comin’ back…

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Ron Paul Jr. and all the Trumpkins including Trump himself complaining about “family connections” leading to unfairly gained opportunities…and I’ll bet no one in the audience spared an extra brain cell pondering the irony.

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Interesting about how they are all like, print his name, but no one will actually say it. Because, you know, it’s illegal.

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Rand, Rand, Rand… If you know it, why so scared to mention it yourself? You could have had it all over the front pages today…

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Irony - that’s what you do if the clothes come off the washline wrinkled, right?

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We we need that name… how else can we say we were not the first to release it. How else can anyone think we will not make things up in an effort to “prove” he/she had an agenda. Everyone knows we don’t.

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Look at that picture: Big turd. Little turd.

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Isn’t it a unlawful to incite others to commit a crime?

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Implausible deniability.

It’s in the Constitution.

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You say the name, chickenshit Rand.

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is it unlawful for the media to out a whistle-blower, or just government officials?

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It’s increasingly obvious that there is no way in hell that two-thirds of the senate will vote to convict. We can only hope that they emerge from this so damaged that the voters sweep these f@ckers out of office. Then again, these are Kentucky voters. Good lord, we’re screwed.

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“Trump’s been pushing for weeks that the name of the whistleblower be made public, a war-cry widely condemned by even some of Trump’s most conservative allies…”

It’s been pointed out by others that if today’s GOP had been around in 1972, the security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in would’ve needed to enter the witness protection program, and disappear, along with his family, for the rest of his life.

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And Aqua Buda has no family connection that resulted in his Senate election.

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When “libertarians” go bad!

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It was a short walk.

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I love how angry they are that they can’t smear the whistleblower. What are they gonna do, cover him with desperation and flop sweat?

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