Gop Sen. Rand Paul accuses the White House of 'immature' and is concerned with 'small revenge' after he and his family had pronounced the annual picnic of the White House that was long held with members of both parties.
Paul, a Libertarian-backloghawk who has expressed deep concern about the radical policy account of President Donald Trump, said that his family-included grandson of his almost six-month-old grandson had been planning to attend Thursday's two-part Picnic on the lawn of the White House. But Paul said that their invitation was abruptly withdrawn without a real explanation, even when the move came after Trump and his assistants Paul for days on his position about the account of President Bashen.
“The level of immaturity is outside of words,” said Paul about the White House, adding that he has lost “a lot of respect” for Trump.
“It's just incredibly small,” Paul said outside the Capitol on Wednesday evening. “I argue from a real conviction and make sure that our country is entangled by debts and gets worse. And they choose to respond by performing my grandson on the picnic. I don't know. I just think it really loses a lot of respect that I once had for Donald Trump.”
CNN has contacted the White House for comment.
The move can be a risk for Trump. To pass his agenda through the Senate, he can only afford to lose the support of three Republican senators. Paul complained that he could not support the bill because it includes an increase in the national debt limit, but he said that he could be open to it if Gop leaders would remove it from the total account. The White House and the Top Republicans have rejected Paul's requirement.
“It's just, I think, a really sad day that this is the level of warfare they bow,” said Paul. “But it is also not very effective. It probably has the opposite result.”
Paul said it is unclear whether the directive came directly from the president or “small staff members who have held some sort of a paid influencer campaign against me for two weeks on Twitter.”
“Who knows if it came from him,” said Paul about Trump. “It can be staff members at a lower level, but these are people who should not work there.”
And then he took a chance for one of the most powerful assistants in the White House, Stephen Miller.
“You have people who are actually going to talk about the removal of Habeas Corpus,” said Paul. “And the same people who direct this campaign are the same people who would casually throw away parts of the Constitution and suspend Habeas Corpus. So I think what it says that they don't like to hear such things say, and so they want to calm me down. And it has not worked, and so they try to attack me.”
When asked if he was talking about Miller, Paul nodded.
When asked by CNN if he thinks Miller should still work in the White House, Paul would only say, “I'm just going to leave it behind.”
“I love Donald Trump, but if they want to act in this way, they start losing a lot of America that just wonders:” Why does everything have to descend to this level? “, Paul added.
Paul said that his wife, Kelley, together with his son, daughter-in-law and grandson of babies, was all planning to attend the Thursday event-with a plan to fly on Thursday morning.
“President Obama did not desecrate us … Biden did not arise, and we have always done this,” said Paul and noticed that he has been up to 10 picnics from the White House. “It's the White House of the Americans. We all pay for it.”
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