Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Green Party leader Annamie Paul under attack by own party

00:00:00.000 tonight what's the deal with the green party of canada i'm david menzies this is friday

00:00:21.600 july 23rd 2021 and this is the ezra levent show why should others go to jail when you're a biggest

00:00:31.220 carbon consumer i know there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i

00:00:37.340 have to say to the government but why i publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so

00:00:42.520 as kermit the frog once crooned it's not easy being green just ask enemy paul the leader of the 0.58

00:00:55.480 federal green party well for now at least enemy is under attack these days which isn't unusual when

00:01:03.240 it comes to the blood sport that is politics it's just that the attacks are coming from within her 1.00

00:01:09.540 own party mutiny style gee when was the last time we saw these sorts of shenanigans unfold in canadian

00:01:17.040 politics actually i think it was back in january 2018 remember when crybaby patrick brown was ousted

00:01:24.200 as leader of the ontario progressive conservative party well the party had no choice really other

00:01:30.740 than to stage a palace coup after all brown had thrown social conservatives under the bus and then 1.00

00:01:36.980 he threw fiscal conservatives under the bus and when there were no more conservatives to be thrown

00:01:42.840 under the bus well guess what brown himself was thrown under the old greyhound by his own colleagues

00:01:49.360 oh and then there were those allegations of sexual misconduct a couple hours ago i learned about

00:01:58.480 troubling allegations about my conduct and character and i'm here tonight to address them

00:02:05.100 first i want to say these allegations are false categorically untrue every one of them i will

00:02:14.880 defend myself as hard as i can with all means at my disposal it's never okay it's never okay for

00:02:23.140 anyone to feel they've been a victim of sexual harassment or feel threatened in any way let me make

00:02:28.600 this clear a safe and respectful society is what we expect and deserve and no one appreciates that more

00:02:36.540 than i do i've got two younger sisters who are my best friends i've grown up in a family that has taught

00:02:41.940 me good values yeah right what followed next was this jabroni making a hasty retreat out of the rear

00:02:50.260 stairwell of queen's park and into a salt-covered minivan it was a scene somewhat reminiscent of

00:02:57.920 cersei's walk of shame in game of thrones now like i said tossing that narcissist brown upon the scrap heap 0.97

00:03:05.640 of obsolescence was a necessity if the pcs wanted to actually win the 2018 election that is brown after all 1.00

00:03:14.680 was a disaster in the making but enough about that lying liar loser because at a press conference last

00:03:22.000 monday in toronto green party leader annie paul told reporters she hopes that those in the party who do

00:03:29.240 not like her leadership will wait until quote a more appropriate time end quote in which to challenge

00:03:35.940 her quote we see that we have candidates that are ready to get going and none of us need this

00:03:42.040 distraction so i'm certainly hoping that this is the end of this end quote indeed according to media

00:03:49.060 reports the green party's governing body was planning on holding a confidence vote on paul's leadership

00:03:55.580 this would also entail reviewing her membership in the party but those plans were cancelled no doubt

00:04:02.740 due to the looming federal election that seems very likely sometime in september and make no mistake

00:04:09.640 this was not a complete victory for paul the green party executive fired the staff in paul's office

00:04:16.340 and it did not release any funding to support her writing campaign gee what a fascinating election strategy

00:04:24.500 yet the question is why why the acrimony why the infighting why this seeming hate on for miss paul

00:04:32.720 now i did reach out to annie paul for an interview unfortunately she declined that's too bad

00:04:39.260 especially since the unspoken reason why so many greens are turning red with rage

00:04:45.100 regarding miss paul has everything to do with her opinions regarding midi's policy

00:04:51.020 oh yes when tensions were hitting a boiling point with israel and hamas back in may

00:04:57.100 paul issued a statement calling for a de-escalation and a return to dialogue that sounds rational but

00:05:04.400 not to the progressive israel haters in the green party of which there appears to be many indeed

00:05:12.700 there are also rumblings of full-out anti-semitism within the party and i think this hate really

00:05:19.760 ramped up when word got out that enemy paul is wait for it jewish you know i bet many people 0.94

00:05:27.600 green party members included had no idea about enemy paul's faith after all being female and black

00:05:34.920 enemy was well on her way toward a royal flush in the identity politics card game but her being jewish 1.00

00:05:42.740 and pro-israel ouch that's a bit of a setback isn't it well at least in the eyes of the uber

00:05:49.220 progressives who make up the green party rank and file in fact green party frederickton mp jennica

00:05:56.080 atwin bolted from the green party for the liberals last month saying that paul's statement regarding

00:06:02.560 recent conflicts in the middle east were quote totally inadequate end quote i think atwin wanted

00:06:09.480 miss paul to you know channel the el could slogan of from the river to the sea palestine will be free

00:06:16.380 in other words wipe israel off the face of the planet i'm certain that would be a more adequate 1.00

00:06:22.600 statement in the eyes of miss atwin yet not only does there appear to be a heap and helping of

00:06:29.460 anti-semitism in the dna of the green party but there's also widespread speculation that former

00:06:36.340 green party leader elizabeth may has not as the saying goes left the building that she is still a force

00:06:44.040 behind the scenes ala that man behind the curtain in the wonderful wizard of oz now full disclosure i

00:06:51.840 have zero evidence to prove that miss may is an anti-semite but i do have evidence to support that

00:06:59.300 she has a thing for radical islam do you recall her outrageous rant in 2015 regarding canada's very

00:07:08.040 own homegrown terrorist omar cotter oh it's one for the ages all right do you guys ever wake up

00:07:15.020 with old theme songs from former black and white tv shows that you never thought your kids would ever

00:07:21.940 see and they're running through your head like every now and then i wake up thinking about lisa you've

00:07:27.000 got to wait lisa i wake up thinking about a horse is a horse of course of course this morning i wake up

00:07:32.780 thinking this why am i thinking this do you guys wonder please hang on

00:07:38.960 wait you know what

00:07:42.300 do you guys remember the theme song welcome back who knew cotter was spelled k-h-a-d-r welcome back

00:07:51.700 omer cotter it matters to say it welcome back omer cotter you're home

00:07:57.860 there's a lot unusual about your speech list but we're going to take off

00:08:07.500 omer cotter you've got more class than the whole cabinet thank you can you believe that

00:08:15.640 in may's view a murderer and an islamist terrorist has more effing class than the entire stephen 0.93

00:08:24.280 harper cabinet so if liz is going to bat for an odious individual who surely fantasizes about 1.00

00:08:31.520 israel being wiped off the map i think we can we might have a clear understanding of liz's

00:08:38.700 mid-east policy oh but manzoid i can hear you yelling miss may was drunk as a skunk when she 1.00

00:08:44.960 made those pro omar cotter statements perhaps but two years ago i asked her about those comments

00:08:51.620 during a press conference after a federal leadership debate check it out

00:08:56.840 miss may david menzies with rebel news miss may in 2015 you stated that convicted terrorist

00:09:06.760 omar cotter had more class than the entire effing conservative cabinet under stephen harper do you

00:09:13.680 still believe in 2019 that this convicted terrorist has more class than the entire conservative party

00:09:19.700 under andrew sheer have you ever been to a press gallery dinner do you understand the concept

00:09:24.800 of it being ridiculous with lots of humor i'm sorry that's not a real question oh sorry if this

00:09:30.780 was an attempt at humor supplemental question do you think that the widow and the fatherless children

00:09:36.640 and the fatherless children of christopher speer his murder victim do you think they found that funny

00:09:42.120 miss may well she looked pretty sober to me that night and she doubled down on her pro 1.00

00:09:49.520 omar comments what a nut now i would reach out to miss may for clarification but these days she's 1.00

00:09:58.580 giving me the silent treatment last time i saw may she was in vancouver in october of 2019 check out 1.00

00:10:05.820 the interaction oh miss may how you doing david menzies i i i got to ask you what happened on monday

00:10:13.320 like if if climate change is such a big issue why is your party only three seats

00:10:21.780 have i got you a bad time

00:10:26.220 you're not on route to your uh dodge viper are you

00:10:31.920 now to be fair may had her noise out of joint that day you see greta tunberg was in town 1.00

00:10:40.800 to address a few thousand cultists about global warming or climate change or extinction or something

00:10:47.820 so you can imagine how green with envy liz was given that this teenage weirdo from sweden

00:10:54.900 was stealing all of liz's green thunder how dare you in any event just imagine you are anime paul

00:11:03.820 trying to make a credible run at picking up seats for the green party and you have to contend with

00:11:10.020 crazy liz doing backroom deals and green party members who are seemingly more concerned with the

00:11:17.040 plight of hamas than they are with the environment oh and lest we forget and i had indeed forgotten

00:11:25.060 there's former green party candidate monica schaefer marvelous monica ran for the green party in 1.00

00:11:32.080 alberta's yellowhead writing in 2006 8 and 11 she's skilled with the violin we understand but

00:11:39.780 what a bummer it was later discovered that monica is a holocaust denier can you believe it a holocaust 1.00

00:11:47.880 denier somehow being attracted to the green party well knock me over with a feather by the way enemy paul

00:11:56.220 has found out that she has few friends outside the green party too for example the other day the

00:12:02.640 justin trudeau liberals held a national anti-semitism summit first enemy was not allowed to attend

00:12:09.920 the optics were pretty putrid regarding that snub so the liberals reverse course well sort of

00:12:16.900 check out enemy's tweet on the ground rules of her being permitted to attend the summit quote

00:12:23.280 the government just sent a link for today's anti-semitism summit i can observe but i can't

00:12:30.000 speak reason to ensure the summit remains a space where community members can express their opinions

00:12:36.960 and ideas i am jewish this is my community then again why would justin trudeau want a bonafide black

00:12:46.940 female to ascend to attend such a summit after all doesn't he already have both of those bases 0.97

00:12:53.000 covered off justin identifies as a feminist even though there are plenty of females out there who 0.81

00:12:59.820 would take issue with that descriptor as for skin tone justin merely has to tiptoe over to the trick

00:13:06.320 tickle trunk and get reunited with that jar of blackface makeup so in a sense there was kind of 0.98

00:13:14.080 sort of already a black female attending that summit wasn't there but now this justin looks like the 0.99

00:13:22.180 mutiny against annie paul is back on big time the green party is taking her to court the party wants

00:13:30.000 to overturn the arbitration that canceled the confidence vote and membership review it sounds

00:13:36.660 so surreal so incredible that on the eve of an election a party leader's biggest battle would appear

00:13:43.040 to be with members of our own party rather than with other political parties we just had to see

00:13:50.540 this lawsuit for ourselves so yesterday our lawyers sent a process server to acquire a copy of these

00:13:57.060 documents which were filed wednesday in toronto in the ontario superior court of justice and these

00:14:04.000 documents are nothing short of fascinating given that they clearly show miss paul the leader of the

00:14:10.140 green party of canada is not only being sued by the green party of canada but also the party's

00:14:15.980 fundraising arm the green party fund of canada these documents clearly indicate that the green party and

00:14:23.760 the green party fund are jointly seeking to overturn an impartial arbiters decision arguing he exceeded his

00:14:32.080 authority in require in requiring party executives to cancel their non-confidence vote against paul

00:14:38.780 as well as well as a review of her party membership what's more the documents state that paul's employment

00:14:46.600 contract was with the green fund a separate legal intended entity that controls the party finances as

00:14:54.840 opposed to the green party therefore the suit argues that the arbitrator erred in law because he had

00:15:02.420 no authority to impose a contract on the party itself bottom line the documents clearly indicate that the

00:15:10.500 green party is at war with itself it's kind of like what would have been the case in ontario during the

00:15:17.280 2018 election campaign if patrick brown was allowed to remain on as leader of the pc party the only difference

00:15:25.300 is being that brown deserved to be ousted given his actions prove that he was really a closet liberal 1.00

00:15:31.780 whereas in my opinion enemy paul does not deserve to be removed given that her only sin is that she is

00:15:39.940 simply too pro-israel she is you know just a little too jewy if she really wanted to curry favor with her party 0.95

00:15:49.300 she would reimagine herself as an israel hating atheist promoting the bds movement oh the progressives 0.67

00:15:57.520 just love those kind of cats but turmoil aside my open question to miss paul is simply this

00:16:04.960 why would you even want to lead this pathetic band of anti-semitic scoundrels in the first place

00:16:12.320 why do you want to be the leader of a party that still seems to be beholden to crazy elizabeth may

00:16:20.580 and where is miss may in all of this drama well yesterday was the official launch of enemy's

00:16:27.520 campaign in toronto and she put on a brave face given all the theatrics and distractions

00:16:32.600 and a ctv report elizabeth may had this to say quote our leader is enemy paul and only our members have

00:16:41.240 authority to call that into question end quote wow what an endorsement day oh well let's look on

00:16:48.800 the bright side at least crazy liz didn't put forth the idea that omer cotter should be the new leader of

00:16:54.880 the green party and don't think that's so outrageous i think at this stage cotter would actually have more

00:17:00.840 support than paul in terms of what the green party rank and file have to say i mean at least little

00:17:08.680 omar is on the right side of progressive policy at least regarding israel as for miss paul i would

00:17:16.440 move on from this grotesque dumpster fire in a heartbeat the green party simply doesn't deserve

00:17:24.060 miss paul rather than the other way around or put another way to paraphrase elizabeth may herself

00:17:30.960 circa 2015 anime paul you have more effing class than the entire green party combined

00:17:39.600 well as an increasing number of businesses are requiring staff and clients to get

00:17:56.720 double vaccinated the fearless boxing club in toronto makes for a horse of a different color

00:18:02.920 which is to say if you have been vaccinated for covid 19 you are persona non grata at this fitness

00:18:11.520 facility that's right if you've been double vaxxed you'll have to go elsewhere if you plan on

00:18:17.480 floating like a butterfly and or stinging like a bee and i'm joined now by andrew lawton of true north

00:18:24.420 who recently penned a story about a business that would seem to be unique when it comes to its

00:18:31.280 vaccination policy welcome to the ezra levant show andrew hey it's good to be with you david

00:18:37.000 it's always a pleasure my friend so andrew the first question is obvious why does the gym's co-founder

00:18:43.580 mohammed abedin want vaccinated people to steer clear of his gym well the reason he gives i must 1.00

00:18:53.440 admit i don't find the most convincing he says here and i'm just going to read it for the safety of

00:18:59.760 our members the fearless boxing club will no longer be accepting those who received the experimental

00:19:05.440 covid vaccine our current members include doctors nurses teachers parents and many youth

00:19:11.480 who feel safer waiting until more research is done on the side effects being discovered right now

00:19:17.440 so i don't think the concern is coming from the health effects of working out in the vicinity of

00:19:24.280 the vaccinated it may well be i i'm not seeing any evidence that you having the vaccine can give

00:19:30.720 someone else secondhand vaccination but it does seem like it's thumbing the nose that all of these

00:19:35.760 people a lot of gyms in particular who have been saying for the last couple of weeks that they have

00:19:40.460 a right to make sure that only the vaccinated work out he's saying all right well two can play this game

00:19:45.720 yeah i i think you're right about that andrew and you know i mean i on one hand i love the cheekiness

00:19:51.900 of this policy i mean it's um really flying in the face of the uh demographic i like to call the

00:19:59.960 covid karens that you know want you double vaxxed triple masked socially distancing till the end of time 1.00

00:20:07.080 yet at the same by the same token um i don't see what the health risk would be in going to a gym

00:20:14.100 where there are vaccinated people and the other thing andrew um when it comes to vaccination

00:20:20.280 right across the board i'm not pro vax i'm not anti-vax i'm all about vax choice if you want to

00:20:26.780 get the jabs get the jabs if you don't don't um do you think maybe this is a stunt to generate publicity

00:20:35.580 because he's sure getting it yeah he is i mean i had never heard of the gym before now i have so in

00:20:41.200 that sense mission accomplished although there is a bit of a protest history with this gym in

00:20:46.340 particular because it was born during the pandemic so this gym opened for the first time when every

00:20:52.440 other gym in ontario was ordered to be closed so i do think there is a contrarian streak that's running

00:20:58.660 throughout it and i also think that people have a right to make their own decisions about whether to

00:21:03.920 get vaccinated or not and the whole point here that i've been making throughout the pandemic is that

00:21:08.260 people need to be able to assess their own risk level their own tolerance to that risk level and

00:21:14.840 make a decision that's right for them and the problem with all of the uh those people pushing

00:21:19.560 for vaccine passports and vaccine mandates now is that they're trying to eliminate that individual

00:21:24.800 responsibility component so i i do i do think when we're talking about this i don't like the race to

00:21:30.540 the bottom of it i don't like this idea of a paralleled society where we have the the gym for only the

00:21:36.240 vaccinated people the gym for the unvaccinated people and if you're partially vaccinated i guess

00:21:41.060 you just have to work out in the street or something i i don't think we're getting any

00:21:45.020 better off as a society when we do that but if it is a stunt if it is just about kind of that as you

00:21:50.280 said cheekiness then i think it was a very well-placed one you know and maybe it was motivated by uh

00:21:57.040 well you know you refer in your story uh andrew to um i think it's canada's biggest fitness chain

00:22:02.960 good life fitness based right in your city of london ontario and they've got an optional

00:22:07.680 vaccination policy which i think is good but you know several days ago gerald butts uh aka justin

00:22:15.120 trudeau's puppet master weighed in on social media saying good life you're going to regret this and i

00:22:22.000 thought how outrageous and how inappropriate for the prime minister's right-hand man to uh condemn a

00:22:30.260 business for basically following the law and maybe uh this is what motivated uh this kind of uh you

00:22:38.320 know um anti-vax policy in terms of those who have gotten the vaccination at fearless but what were your

00:22:44.800 thoughts on that in terms of the political class along the lines of uh gerald butt uh condemning a

00:22:52.720 company like good life for simply following the law well i actually want to make a slight correction

00:22:58.460 to how you characterize good life's policy because you'd said i think that good life has an optional

00:23:04.020 vaccine policy in reality good life has no policy whatsoever on vaccine so okay if you want to go to

00:23:10.320 the gym doesn't matter if you are vaccinated or not they have no policy whatsoever and how this

00:23:16.000 controversy if you can even call it that came about is someone asked the company on twitter hey

00:23:21.480 do you need to be vaccinated to work out there and they said no we have no policy that requires

00:23:26.380 vaccination and this became this uh this tweet that subjected them to the cancel mob of people like

00:23:33.620 bruce arthur at the toronto star people like gerald butts accusing them of being anti-vax accusing them

00:23:39.720 of being reckless with their members health people threatening to cancel and you're right they just were

00:23:44.860 following the law which is to say that we are not as a business going to start checking vaccine papers

00:23:50.280 when you show up to do a few lines uh not a few lines i don't know if they do that a good life

00:23:55.860 i was gonna say a few laps in the pool or do a few kilometers on the treadmill or something like

00:24:01.340 that and and now we are in this era where the absence of a requirement is seen as being a protest

00:24:09.260 against the direction that a lot of these people are pushing for which is a very dangerous direction

00:24:13.900 to say mandating a vaccine for aspect accessing many aspects of civil society you know and i think

00:24:21.740 you're right andrew and the protests work both ways i mean you spoke about in your story a trono lawyer

00:24:26.700 he had set up a website to promote businesses that required vaccinations and then uh the project was

00:24:34.820 scuttled uh within weeks less than a week later it didn't even last a week before uh people started

00:24:40.660 to realize hey they actually don't like businesses telling them uh what they have to do or not do as far

00:24:45.920 as medical treatment is concerned yeah and you know this is going to be an interesting thing that plays out

00:24:51.280 i think andrew in the the weeks and months ahead because i i spoke to the owner of the moonshine

00:24:56.520 cafe in oakville ontario uh last week he um was getting publicity one of the headlines kind of creative

00:25:04.200 no jabs no tabs basically if you don't have your double vaccination uh you cannot get a seat at his

00:25:11.800 restaurant uh when i spoke to him he said all his regulars when they were all thumbs up they thought it

00:25:16.580 was a great idea but wow the deluge on social media and then there was going to be a demonstration

00:25:23.080 outside his restaurant uh a week ago um and on saturday and then he promptly changed the policy to

00:25:31.960 it's vaccination optional so i think you know depending on who your clientele is it might not be

00:25:40.700 financially beneficial to demand anything well i mean why would you wade into it and and one of the

00:25:49.200 big frustrations i had when that website in toronto came up there was a a business in toronto a restaurant

00:25:55.000 called chanticleer which was one of the first to say yes we want to require vaccinations if you want

00:26:01.620 to seat inside you can sit out on the street if you want to eat your food but if you want to seat inside

00:26:06.080 you've got to be fully vaccinated and the owner of that restaurant was interviewed by cbc and he was

00:26:12.260 quite mad that the government didn't require vaccines so he had to that was his belief and i was thinking

00:26:18.840 well wait you're angry that you have a choice as a business owner you're angry that you as an individual

00:26:24.300 citizen have autonomy to make a decision for yourself they want the government to make the decision for

00:26:30.440 them so they don't have to deal with the consequences of consumers or possible consumers who

00:26:35.460 don't like these policies you know isn't that fascinating because i see the people who uh lust for

00:26:42.340 mandatory vaccination program andrew being on the left side of the political spectrum and you know that

00:26:49.160 for decades when it came to the abortion debate what was the phrase uh my body my choice well what

00:26:57.600 happened to choices when it comes to an injection of an experimental vaccine going into your body suddenly

00:27:04.980 that is not a uh a current thing to uh uh to to popularize no and let me say here i i am not at all

00:27:14.700 anti-vaccination but the whole point is people i believe have a right to make the choice and if an

00:27:21.420 individual wants to get vaccinated feels safer when they're vaccinated absolutely they should not be

00:27:26.820 condemned or chastised for doing that and the problem that i have is that now you have all of these

00:27:32.440 people who for years have been saying about any number of issues this is my choice telling people

00:27:37.280 no no you have to get vaccinated or effectively saying you have to because we're going to say you

00:27:42.720 can't do all of these other things like go to a concert or go to a restaurant if you don't and the reality

00:27:48.520 is when they start to call for government to make those determinations we move into a very dark

00:27:54.260 territory which is why we're seeing so much backlash by the way in europe places like france italy even

00:27:59.900 greece to some extent of people who are by and large happy to get vaccinated but once the government

00:28:05.300 requires it they say well this is not what a free country is about no you're 100 right and also

00:28:10.920 andrew where do we draw the line when it comes to this potential slippery slope which is to say

00:28:16.760 if i was running a gym if i was the greeter at a restaurant um i ask have you been double vaccinated

00:28:24.480 okay uh by the way um what is your history in terms of uh sexually transmitted diseases sir can you please

00:28:31.760 let me know about that um i thought our medical histories are things that are private yeah i was

00:28:41.880 trying to come back into canada a few months back from the united states and i had to get a pcr test and

00:28:47.260 some of these american clinics uh to get the simplest thing done will ask you a million and a half

00:28:52.000 questions they like go through the entire medical history of oh you know did you have a great great

00:28:56.520 great great grandparent who had you know uh you know dysentery on his way to the oregon trail or

00:29:01.740 something like that and at a certain point you will have to wonder if going into a restaurant will

00:29:06.980 become an actuarial calculation where to get in there you know talking about okay yeah you've got

00:29:12.100 the covid vaccine how about measles mumps rubella you up to date on that have you gotten your

00:29:16.320 Gardasil vaccine no well okay you're sitting at the back sir and there's an absurdity to this but

00:29:21.880 at the same time not that much because we have been told by all of the so-called experts that

00:29:27.680 this is going to be something that we just have to live with pfizer's talking about annual booster

00:29:32.100 shots we know that all of the discussion once covid ends will switch to future uh pandemic so the

00:29:38.300 infrastructure that's set up now is very important because it's going to outlast this particular virus

00:29:44.700 yeah no i think you're right andrew and uh i mean in closing because we're just running out of

00:29:49.360 uh racetrack here andrew uh i think maybe the ultimate beneficiaries of these vaccination policies

00:29:55.940 will be oh i don't know uh the food delivery services and the home gym equipment manufacturers

00:30:03.160 i think i'm going to become a hermit and i think i'm never i mean i already was one so the pandemic was

00:30:09.460 less less tough on me than on some other people but no i mean with all of these things you're right

00:30:14.340 the big winners are uber eats and amazon prime that's right well andrew it was a great piece

00:30:20.220 and thank you so much for joining me my friend anytime david there you go and that was andrew

00:30:26.160 lawton from london ontario keep it here more of the as relevant show to come right after this

00:30:31.200 hey folks thanks so much for watching the big boss man ezra levant he'll be back here on monday

00:30:48.080 in the meantime have a great weekend

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Rebel News Podcast - July 24, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Green Party leader Annamie Paul under attack by own party

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