Rand Paul received a suspicious package at home. He blames a pop singer he claims ‘called for violence.’
When a suspicious package filled with white powder appeared at his home in Kentucky on Monday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Q) said he knew who was responsible for inducing the threat: pop singer Richard Marks.
Paul pointed to a Sunday tweet in which the singer behind hit films such as "Don't Mean Nothing" and "Endless Summer Nights" said he would buy drinks for Paul's neighbor, who took several of the senator's ribs in the 2017 attack Was broken. . Paul argued that the intention was to incite another violent attack against him.
"As a repeated target of violence, it is condemnable that the Twitter C-list allows celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family," Paul said in a statement shared with POLITICO. Which broke the news of the suspicious package. "Just this weekend Richard Marx called for violence against me and now we have received this powder filled letter."
Marx, who often tweets about politics to his more than 300,000 followers, said his tweet was only "a wise crack up about Rand Paul's neighbor".
"I'm the only person on Twitter to ever mention Rand Paul's neighbor," Marx answered sarcastically to a critic who shared Paul's allegations on Twitter. "I must have been."
The incident has become the latest rally for conservatives, who claim that social media platforms openly target right-wing users. This comes after Paul was slammed this week for saying he would refuse the coronovirus vaccine, citing antibodies that he had a Kovid-19 contract last year.
On Monday, a package arrived at Paul's house with an image of the senator in a neck brace and a cast on his arm, Fox News explained above reading the text, "I'll finish what your neighbors started did."
In 2017, Rene Boucher performed a "running tackle" on Paul, breaking Paul's six ribs. There was a long-running dispute between the two about the waste coming out of the houses of the locality. Boucher later pleaded guilty to federal charges of assaulting a member of Congress and was sentenced to 30 days in prison.
In 2018, Paul was again the target of a violent threat. The US Capitol Police arrested a man whom Paul said had called one of his offices in Kentucky and "threatened to kill me and cut my family with an ax."
Now the FBI's Louisville office is working with the Warren County Sheriff's Office to investigate the package at Paul's home, the agency told the Louisville Courier-Journal. The US Capitol Police said in a statement on Tuesday morning that they are also investigating.
A spokesperson for the Capitol Police said, "We are hoping to release more information this afternoon when we meet with investigators to find out what may be released."
Marx, who rose to fame in the late '80s and then recorded several Top 20 hits in the' 90s, has raised his online profile during the epidemic with podcasts and a prolific, conservative-biting Twitter feed, called It is called The One. "Hilarious impostor."
On Sunday, Paul made headlines on a podcast saying that he planned to quit the vaccine, in which Marx targeted the Republican MP.
"I'll say it again," Marx tweeted. "If I ever meet Rand Paul's neighbor I'm going to hug him and buy as many drinks as possible."
As reaction to Paul's statement grew on Tuesday, Marx responded by tweeting a story to the senator last year about contracting Kovid-19 and potentially exposing other lawmakers.
"You know who really put the lives of many people at potential risk?" She wrote.