Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on Thursday and tore into Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky while repeating many anti-Ukraine talking points
I would draw a pretty bright line between listening to foreign interests and promoting them. Also, there’s plenty of times the foreign interest is also in your constituents best interest, and the only way to find that out is to listen to their proposals. I’m not saying there’s not plenty of examples of both extremes, but there’s a whole lot of middle grey area that you have to think hard about.
A foreign company wants to build a huge factory here and employ a bunch of workers. They’ll need help navigating local bureaucracy and red tape, but you get a lot of good jobs. However, they’ll then be competing with other American manufacturers, but their output and presence might spawn more jobs beyond just the factory itself.
There’s infinite variations on these kind of premises and to just say that in retrospect it was a corrupt ask or a bad deal is pure hindsight bias.
Again, I’m not saying the man is flawless, no one is, politicians especially, but I do think he mostly operated in a way that put the best interests of the country first.
I would draw a pretty bright line between listening to foreign interests and promoting them. Also, there’s plenty of times the foreign interest is also in your constituents best interest, and the only way to find that out is to listen to their proposals. I’m not saying there’s not plenty of examples of both extremes, but there’s a whole lot of middle grey area that you have to think hard about.
A foreign company wants to build a huge factory here and employ a bunch of workers. They’ll need help navigating local bureaucracy and red tape, but you get a lot of good jobs. However, they’ll then be competing with other American manufacturers, but their output and presence might spawn more jobs beyond just the factory itself.
There’s infinite variations on these kind of premises and to just say that in retrospect it was a corrupt ask or a bad deal is pure hindsight bias.
Again, I’m not saying the man is flawless, no one is, politicians especially, but I do think he mostly operated in a way that put the best interests of the country first.