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Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act. Why the sudden urge? [1]

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Date: 2022-08-14

Rand Paul, who has been adding to the long list of excuses for why it is OK for trump to steal classified documents belonging to the U.S. Government, seems to have woken up to the fact the trump will likely be charged with espionage. So, his solution is … to repeal the Espionage Act!

x The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment.



Repeal the Espionage Act – The Future of Freedom Foundation https://t.co/3KCgujpS9z — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 13, 2022

Why this sudden change of mind this week? He has been a strong proponent of using the espionage act to prosecute people when they are non-republicans.

This seems like a more likely explanation —

x Methinks you’re implicated too. — Beardless Mountain Man (@CapnRickySully) August 14, 2022

After all, Rand has been carrying water (and letters) for putin over the years -

x Rand Paul wants to save Trump by repealing the Espionage Act and legalizing espionage against the United States



Is anyone surprised?



Senator Perm is the one who hand-delivered a letter from Trump to Daddy Putin



He’s a Russian asset masquerading as a Senator from Kentucky — Lindy Li (@lindyli) August 14, 2022

John McCain told us ...

x Rand Paul wants to get rid of the espionage act. Here is literally a reminder from Senator John McCain that Rand Paul works for Vladimir Putin. pic.twitter.com/qU6LGq6BAE — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 14, 2022

Rand Paul in a nutshell -

x Rand Paul. Soft on crime. In bed with our enemies. — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 13, 2022

We live in dangerous times — not just because of trump, but because of his army of brown shirts and a republican party that has gone 100% fascist in its quest for power and wealth and is controlled by a group of sociopaths, both domestic and foreign.

Let’s fight back this ugly narrative from the lawless right to defend trump, a narrative that is getting uglier and uglier by the minute with calls for violence and calls to dismantle the state. Let’s seize the moment to educate the American public that trump and his enablers, which includes the entire republican party leadership, are modern-day Nazis, whose goal is to destroy our Democracy and the American way of life, so that they hold on to power and wealth. They are a vocal group, they are a minority, but they will remain a minority only if the majority fights back.

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