Two Republican Victims of Political Violence Urge Compassion for Pelosi; 'Don't Make Everything About Politics' Democrat activists, particularly those with cable TV platforms, berated Republicans on Monday for stoking the violence unleashed by a deranged, homeless nudist on Paul Pelosi, who is recovering from hammer blows to the head and body.
Not so fast, said Republican lawmakers Steve Scalise and Rand Paul, both of them badly injured at different times by people opposed to their conservative politics.
"I mean, there's an eagerness on the left to make this political and immediately to start blaming Republicans, but where's the sympathy, even from the left, for Paul Pelosi?" Sen. Rand Paul asked.
"I mean, I'm sure he is suffering today. He's been through this horrific assault, and nobody's really talking about him, because even the left is talking about making this political and blaming it on Republicans," Paul told Fox News's Jesse Waters on Monday night:
"When I was assaulted, I was struck once in the back. I didn't hear my assailant coming because I had noise cancellation ear phones on. I was struck once in the back so hard that I had six ribs broken, including three of them that were completely separated. My lung was damaged. I coughed up blood for over a year. My lungs filled up with fluid. I about died from an infection. Had part of my lung removed, and then Nancy Pelosi's daughter felt free to go ahead and tweet that, you know, my neighbor should come back and do it again -- that my neighbor was right.
“My current political opponent tweets out and has an ad that he created mocking my attack. On of his campaign workers said that the attacker -- the assailant who struck me in the back is her personal hero. Another one of my opponents' campaign leaders actually put my address up and then puts pictures of me injured and the implication is, I guess, this is where he is if you want to finish the job.
"And so, no. The left doesn't really care. They make everything political. But I will tell you sincerely, I do want Paul Pelosi to make a speedy recovery. And I know what it's like to go through the pain. And I know he's in pain today. And I think we should see him as a human being, not as just sort of this -- you know, we dehumanize everybody in politics. It's like people don't care. They think you don't feel pain..................
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