Posted on 08/06/2019 4:07:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul underwent lung surgery in a procedure he says stems from injuries suffered when a neighbor tackled him outside his Kentucky home in 2017.
The Republican lawmaker and former presidential candidate tweeted Monday that part of his lung damaged in the assault was removed during the weekend surgery in Tennessee. The senator is continuing his recovery at home, a Paul spokeswoman said.
"I will have to limit my August activities," the 56-year-old Paul said in the tweet, adding that he "should" be able to return to the Senate in September.
"Sen. Paul will need to recover from his surgery for a few weeks, which will limit his travel and events," his spokeswoman, Kelsey Cooper, said in a statement. "He will continue to work on diplomacy, legislative and constituent issues during that time."
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Paul testified during the civil trial that he feared for his life as he struggled to breathe after Boucher, an anesthesiologist by trade, slammed into him in their upscale Bowling Green neighborhood. Paul testified that he got off his riding mower to pick up a stick and was straightening up when Boucher hit him from behind. Paul said he was wearing noise-canceling headphones and didn't hear Boucher coming toward him.
Paul said that for a moment, he had a flashback to the 2017 shooting at a baseball field when members of Congress were practicing for a game. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana suffered serious injuries in that shooting.
During his testimony, Boucher acknowledged he wasn't thinking rationally and called it "two minutes of my life I wish I could take back."
And Ditch broke his shoulder on Saturday.
Kentucky seems to be a damgerous place for Senators.
Weird?
And the crazed democrat operative gets thirty days.
“During his testimony, Boucher acknowledged he wasn’t thinking rationally and called it “two minutes of my life I wish I could take back.””
He should 5 years in the joint to think about it.
Jumped from behind and beaten resulting in long-term chronic physical injuries.
30 days.
Yes.
Good to see that he suffered on a personal level.
dispute over lawn care? b.s. The neighbor was a left wing loon.
“My memory is hazy...wasn’t the neighbor who assaulted him a rabid leftist?”
Yes indeed he is, and that’s the real reason he attacked Rand Paul, not the phony rubbish on lawn meme. He is a whacko socialist Lib, and should be sitting in a jail cell for a hate crime against Paul.
Medical question:
The Senator was hit from behind. Was the hit so hard that it broke ribs and damaged/bruised his lung?
Wow.
Equal justice for all except whacko libs.
Democrats are murdering us good people.
And the crazed democrat operative gets thirty days.
Yes, he broke six ribs and punctured a lung. Has since had complications with pneumonia from it.
Interesting.
Almost immediately after lung surgery, wasn't RBG doing push ups or something as strenuous as that to show off how well she's recovering... Meanwhile Sen. Paul is taking it easy.
This shows that the RBG speedy recovery was BS.
Is she till alive?
Prayers for Sen Paul's healing.
It would be manslaughter I would think.
Kentucky judges are easy to buy, especially the democrat judges. Our legal system here is full of Boss Hogg types.
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