Rand Paul speaks out on attacker who stabbed staffer as victim clings to life
The Kentucky senator released a statement on the attack, asking for 'privacy' so the victim can recover from the assault.said the staffer who was brutally stabbed in Washington, D.C., this weekend did not know the suspect and lamented how the attacker had just been released from prison before the crime.
"We are praying for his recovery. … He didn't know the attacker. The attacker was out of jail for 24 hours," Paul told Fox News Digital and other reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday in brief comments about staffer Phillip Todd. Todd was attacked Saturday just before 5:30 p.m. on H Street in Washington, D.C. He was left with"life-threatening injuries," Paul's office said in a previous statement.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the Kentucky Farm Bureau ham breakfast July 25, 2022, in Louisville.I ask you to join Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery and thanking the first responders, hospital staff and police for their diligent actions," Paul aid in a prior statement released by his office., his uncle Tim Todd said in a Facebook update Monday."Abdomen surgery went well this morning. There was damage to his spleen and some leaking in other areas.
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