{"id":105894,"date":"2018-10-09T17:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105894"},"modified":"2018-10-09T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:15:38","slug":"105894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=105894","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul&#8217;s Wife Tells Raw Truth About Violent <i>Left<\/i> (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/EBAecAOm-o73dHpYz.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Watch \u2013 Rand Paul\u2019s Wife: I Sleep with a Loaded Gun Thanks to Leftists\u2019 Threats<\/h1>\n<p>by Robert Kraychik<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h3>Kelley Paul, the wife of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), described her increasing concerns for the safety of herself and her family amidst increasing calls from Democrats and the broader left to amplify politically motivated hostility towards Republicans. She offered her remarks in a Friday interview with Breitbart News Deputy Political Director Amanda House.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve updated all of our security systems at home. I sleep with a loaded gun by my bed. I\u2019m home alone a lot, obviously when Rand is [in Washington, DC], and so I\u2019ve got deadbolts all around my house so that if someone\u2019s in my house when I go to bed I\u2019m deadbolted in three different levels,\u201d\u00a0Paul told House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s bizarre. I\u2019ve never been like this in my whole life. \u2026 We used to never even lock our doors, and now that has all changed.\u00a0Even going out to dinner in D.C., last night, you worry. You hope that people aren\u2019t going to come up and just start screaming at you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul recalled\u00a0a neighbor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/11\/04\/the-hill-police-report-rand-paul-assaulted-at-kentucky-home\/\">assaulting<\/a>\u00a0her husband outside their home in Bowling Green, KY, describing what she said is an increasingly politically polarized America. Her husband\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/06\/11\/rand-paul-neighbor-claims-temper-lost-over-unsightly-yard-debris\/\">suffered<\/a>\u00a0broken ribs as a result of the attack, and the attacker was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/06\/15\/kentucky-man-sentenced-to-30-days-in-jail-for-attacking-sen-rand-paul\/\">sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to 30 days of incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords do matter, and there are so many, quite frankly, unhinged [and] unstable people out there, and when they hear someone on their side telling them, \u2018Get up in their face,\u2019 they take that literally, and they think that gives them a license to be very aggressive, be harassing, throw people out of restaurants, and I don\u2019t think anybody wants to live in a country like that,\u201d\u00a0Paul continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the Full Interview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/EBAecAOm-o73dHpYz.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Paul\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/10\/05\/rand-pauls-wife-open-letter-cory-booker-family-facing-horrifying-threats\/\">composed an op-ed<\/a>\u00a0published by CNN entitled, \u201c<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/03\/opinions\/rand-paul-suffer-intimidation-and-threats-kelley-paul\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">My husband, Rand Paul, and our family have suffered intimidation and threats<\/a>,\u201d in which she\u00a0expressed anguish over harm done to her husband and threats directed against her family.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s op-ed was prefaced with the clause describing it as an \u201copen letter\u201d to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who she said had encouraged his political supporters to threaten and intimidate Republican politicians.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Booker urged his supporters to \u201c<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2018\/07\/28\/cory-booker-pleads-supporters-get-face-congresspeople\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">get up in the face of congresspeople<\/a>.\u201d Booker\u2019s communications director later\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/04\/opinions\/booker-paul-letter-response-opinion-giertz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">described<\/a>\u00a0his boss\u2019s statement as \u201can appeal for political activism that seeks common ground\u201d illustrative of an \u201cenduring commitment to decency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, a left-wing supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/06\/14\/live-updates-rep-steve-scalise-shot-virginia-baseball-practice\/\">attempted<\/a>\u00a0a mass murder of Republican politicians, opening fire at a baseball practice in Alexandria, VA. Rand Paul, who was present at the event,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2017\/06\/14\/rand-nobody-would-have-survived-baseball-shooting-without-capitol-police-it-would-have-been-a-massacre-without-them\/\">later said<\/a>\u00a0\u201cnobody would have survived \u2026 it would have been a massacre [if not for the Capitol Police].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Paul expressed fear of a future violent attack being inspired by Democrats\u2019 calls for hostility towards Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very threatening, and it\u2019s very frightening, frankly, to feel like you are under assault, and that your own home address is being released for the purposes of intimidating [or] threatening you in some way,\u201d\u00a0Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the violence that Rand has experienced in the last year, it does scare me that there is going to be somebody that is really unstable that takes that message a step further and that something terrible happens to someone in this toxic and highly polarized environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House asked Paul if her family considered withdrawal from politics in light of left-wing threats directed against them.<\/p>\n<p>Paul replied that her husband is committed to serving his Kentuckian constituents, \u201ceven though this last year has been frightening and hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2018\/10\/08\/watch-rand-pauls-wife-i-sleep-with-a-loaded-gun-thanks-to-liberals-threats\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2018\/10\/08\/watch-rand-pauls-wife-i-sleep-with-a-loaded-gun-thanks-to-liberals-threats\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}