connection to one of the defendants. these documents were first published by the website mother jones, but they show that rand paul s dad and his sister are on the prosecutor s witness list to potentially be called to testify in that federal criminal corruption trial. and that s not all. check this out. the defense lawyer who s representing one of these rand paul staffers said in these same court filings on where the trial s going to be, he also says who he s going to call, and he says he s going to call rand paul s current chief presidential strategist, the guy who is the running the operation. the brains behind rand paul s entire presidential campaign. the man currently trying to get him elected president is potentially going to be called as a witness in this trial. the trial is set to begin a week from monday in iowa, which means in the run-up to iowa caucuses where rand paul is already polling worse than scott walker, who just dropped out of the race
where rand paul is already polling worse than scott walker, who just dropped out of the race because his numbers were so bad in the run-up to the caucuses where rand paul is in terrible shape, he s now face the prospect of his father and his sister and his top campaign strategist all being hauled into federal court to testify under oath in a trial about how the paul family tried to allegedly bribe their way to victory in the iowa caucuses the last time around. i mean, at least what s that guy s name? he s got at least he s got mick mulvaney. he s got that big mick mulvaney endorsement. so maybe none of this matters. maybe it will all be fine.
thanks to those new filings, we can now report that the justice department is planning to call as witnesses in this trial rand paul s dad, former congressman rand paul, as well as rand paul s sister, who has a connection to one of the defendants. these documents were first published by the website mother jones, but they show that rand paul s dad and his sister are on the prosecutor s witness list to potentially be called to testify in that federal criminal corruption trial. and that s not all. check this out. the defense lawyer who s representing one of these rand paul staffers said in these same court filings on where the trial s going to be, he also says who he s going to call, and he says he s going to call rand paul s current chief presidential strategist, the guy who is the running the operation. the brains behind rand paul s entire presidential campaign. the man currently trying to get him elected president is potentially going to be called as a witness in this trial. the trial
court filings on where the trial s going to be, he also says who he s going to call, and he says he s going to call rand paul s current chief presidential strategist, the guy who is the running the operation. the brains behind rand paul s entire presidential campaign. the man currently trying to get him elected president is potentially going to be called as a witness in this trial. the trial is set to begin a week from monday in iowa, which means in the run-up to iowa caucuses where rand paul is already polling worse than scott walker, who just dropped out of the race because his numbers were so barksd in the run-up to the caucuses where rand paul is in terrible shape, he s now face the prospect of his father and his sister and his top campaign strategist all being hauled into federal court to testify under oath in a trial about how the paul family tried to allegedly bribe their way to victory in the iowa caucuses the last time
more than $70,000 in secret bribery payments to this iowa state senator and then they conspired with him to cover it up. that scandal has already led to that iowa senator pleading guilty in federal court. earlier this summer it led to federal indictments of three paul family staffers, two of whom have been work recently to get rand paul elected president this time around. all three of them have pled not guilty. but this scandal from his dad s campaign, it s already led rand paul to lose two of his top aides at a time when he really can t afford to be losing anybody. but they were charged. they re pleading not guilty. they ve had to resign from rand paul world. so he s lost them. and now there s new bad news for rand paul in terms of what s about to happen in this story. the federal trial for these three indicted paul family staffers begins a week from monday in des moines, iowa, and