On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that the Department of Justice didn’t do anything about the mob of people who surrounded him and his wife in D.C., but is now going after “moms at school boards” over areas that have nothing to do with federal law and “the crime of dissent.”
Paul said, “You know, both my wife and I have been through a lot, not only being — myself being shot at — the ballfield when Steve Scalise was nearly killed, being there when a mob of 100 surrounded us, threatening to kill us, holding us essentially hostage until policemen came and broke us free. They were assaulting the policemen as they were trying to get us to the hotel. One of the policemen was ultimately bloodied and had a laceration that required stitches above his eye. … We asked them to investigate the mob of 100 to see who paid for them to come to D.C., who was putting them up in thousand-dollar-a-night hotels? Not one thing was ever done by the Department of Justice. But now, moms at school boards are being told that they’re criminals, potential domestic terrorists for the crime of dissent.”