Pundits who called Rand Paul a 'Russian stooge' should admit they're stooges for the Democratic Party

by Jack Hunter
March 25, 2019

When Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., supported President Trump’s outreach efforts with Russia last summer, including a diplomatic trip to the country himself, Vanity Fair’s Tina Nguyen wrote that “Rand Paul is Trump’s Perfect Russia Stooge.”

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait said Paul was a “Loyal Trump Stooge” for not supporting the investigation into the president’s "opaque ties to Russia."

Not to be outdone, neoconservative Stephen Hayes, the former Weekly Standard editor who once concocted the outlandish conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with Osama Bin Laden, penned a column titled, “Rand Paul, Russian Stooge.”

As a libertarian-conservative writer who often chronicles the career of America’s most high profile libertarian Republican, almost every Rand Paul story I have shared since the summer of 2016 on virtually any subject has been met with social media commenters parroting the notion that the Kentucky senator is a Russian “stooge” or even Vladimir Putin’s “puppet.”

On Friday, and confirmed on Sunday we learned these people are a bunch of conspiracy nuts.

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