The senator and other participants in the meeting repeatedly denied ISIL representatives were present. Every person in the photograph taken at the meeting has been publicly identified. An ISIL spokesman violently denounced the meeting and threatened to murder the participants. But Rand Paul either still believes the falsehood, which makes him a fool, or he has decided to defame a man — who suffered greatly for his country — by accusing him of consorting with the enemy, which makes Paul despicable.
Paul was repeating the slander as recently as last week in an interview with the Daily Beast after the New York Times debunked it. Perhaps Paul will claim he hasn’t seen recent articles exposing the charge as false. Maybe he doesn’t read the New York Times. But I guarantee that unless he is staffed by the most incompetent imbeciles in politics, Paul has been informed there isn’t evidence to support the accusation and much evidence that refutes it, not the least of which is that some of the people identified in the photograph have been killed by ISIL.
All of this raises obvious questions about the sincerity of Paul’s recent efforts to moderate the paranoid radicalism that so delights 9/11 deniers and Ayn Rand fanboys who are the foot soldiers of the would-be Ron and Rand Paul revolution, but will cause most voters quite sensibly to reject him.
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