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Rand Paul breaks with Trump on two key policy promises
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Rand Paul breaks with Trump on two key policy promises

Rand Paul on Face the Nation.

Rand Paul on Face the Nation.

President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear he is looking for yes-men for his next term, but Republican Senator Rand Paul didn’t seem to get the memo.

The Kentucky lawmaker spoke about CBS’ Confront the nation on Sunday, firmly stating his position against both tariffs and the possibility of the military being involved in mass deportations.

Paul even went so far as to call Trump’s proposal to involve the military “illegal” and a “terrible image” while speaking to the show’s host, Margaret Brennan.

“I am 100 percent in favor of going after the 15,000 murders, the 13,000 sexual assault perpetrators and rapists. All these people. Let’s send them on their way to prison or back home to another prison. So I would say: all points bulletin, all in,” Paul said.

However, he quickly made it clear that he and Trump were in complete disagreement about how these plans could be implemented.

‘But you don’t do that with the army, because it’s illegal. We have been reluctant to put the military on the streets because the police have a difficult job, but the police understand the Fourth Amendment. They need to go to court, they need to get arrest warrants, it needs to be specific,” he said.

“So I am in favor of removing these people, but I would do it through the normal process of domestic policing.”

Later in the conversation, Paul again went against the party line.

Paul, an occasional maverick in his party, spoke very passionately about his distaste for tariffs, which went directly against Trump’s idea of ​​a more insular economy.

“I don’t like tariffs, but I also don’t like the president promoting tariffs. I think tariffs are a burden on consumers,” he said.

He later added: “I will say in a loud voice that I think the tariffs are bad and that international trade actually saves each consumer about $7,000 a year. So everyone in our country is $7,000 richer thanks to international trade.”

In an almost shocking departure from Trump’s messaging on tariffs and international trade, Paul suggested that globalism was the way forward.

“It’s part of one of the heydays of the post-war and post-industrial revolution. This amazing international trade has made us richer and we need to talk about the statistics and facts about the benefits of trade,” he concluded.