Rand Paul Announces That DC US Attorney Will Not Pursue an Investigation of Who Funded RNC Attackers

Following President Trump’s speech at the RNC in August, attendees were mobbed by protesters leaving the White House, including Sen. Rand Paul.

Paul said at the time that “I think we’re going to find out that these people are hired and from out of town, specifically in our case.”

Later, Paul told Fox News “My feeling is there is interstate criminal traffic being paid for across states lines…they flew here on a plane, they all got fresh new clothes, and they were paid to be here. It is a crime to do that and it needs to be traced.”

After apparently attempting to get the situation investigated, Paul announced that “The DC U.S. Attorney today confirmed to me that they will not pursue an investigation of who is funding the thugs who attacked my wife and me and sent a DC police officer to the hospital.”

The DC U.S. Attorney today confirmed to me that they will not pursue an investigation of who is funding the thugs who attacked my wife and me and sent a DC police officer to the hospital. https://t.co/abpESDJ4nx

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 23, 2020

The protesters were shouting for Paul to acknowledge Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed in Paul’s home state of Kentucky during a police raid.

Paul had introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act to prohibit no-knock warrants, which allow law enforcement officials to forcibly enter a home without announcing their authority or purpose in June.

It was later reported that in Taylor’s case, the officers knocked so loudly that neighbors could hear the commotion, said Lenese Herbert, Howard University law professor and former assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.

“They knocked but did not announce and the lack of the announcement, ‘We are the police. We are executing a warrant,’ that probably caused the most confusion on the other side of that door,” Herbert added.