Updated: 13:32, 25 May 2021
RAND Paul has accused Richard Marx of inciting violence after the songwriter said he would hug the Senator s attacker.
Marx s tweet came just hours before the Republican received a death threat at his home in Kentucky.
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It comes after Paul received a chilling death threat filled with white powderCredit: Fox News
Paul has since hit back at the artist on social media and accused Twitter of allowing celebrities to encourage violence against him.
He tweeted: I take these threats immensely seriously. As a repeated target of violence, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family.
Updated: 7:28 ET, May 25 2021
SENATOR Rand Paul was subjected to an anonymous threat in May 2021 that made reference to an assault in 2017.
It came after the politician was attacked by his neighbor Rene Boucher at his home in Bowling Green and suffered serious injuries.
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Who is Rand Paul’s former neighbour?
Rand Paul’s former neighbour is Rene Boucher.
Believed to be around 62 years in age, Mr Boucher is serving a sentence for a crime that he committed in 2017.
He was an anesthesiologist and used to own a property next to Senator Rand Paul in Bowling Green.
However, he sold the property in June 2019, for an estimated $482,000, with proceeds going towards the court.
Republican lawmaker calls for change after receiving death threat package on The Story
Republican Sen. Rand Paul told Fox News on Tuesday that a tweet posted by singer-songwriter Richard Marx could be partially responsible for the suspicious package he received at his Kentucky home a day earlier. You know, hundreds of people on Twitter every day are wishing me violence, wishing my family violence, Paul told The Story host Martha MacCallum, referring specifically to a tweet from this songwriter from a long time ago that nobody has heard ever of.
A package filled with unidentified white powder arrived at the lawmaker s home Monday, bearing a picture of a bruised and bandaged Paul with a gun to his head and a threat printed beneath it: I’ll finish what your neighbor started you motherf-.
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A decade ago, Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a crazed gunman in Tuscon, Arizona. Thankfully, and miraculously, she survived.
Imagine if a conservative posted on Twitter, “If I ever meet Gabrielle Giffords’s shooter, I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume.”
This would be unacceptable at a bare minimum. It would clearly be disgusting. It would reasonably be considered an endorsement and encouragement of violence.
Yet, change the names, and you have exactly the tweet that musical artist and outspoken leftist Richard Marx shared on Sunday. Marx wrote, “If I ever meet Rand Paul’s neighbor I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume.”