Senator Rand Paul reiterated his opposition to both former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former UN ambassador John Bolton as secretary of state in an interview with the Guardian on Tuesday. The interview follows an op-ed in Rare, an online conservative publication, where Paul condemned Bolton as “out of touch”. Instead, Paul suggested Senate foreign relations committee chair Bob Corker as an alternative. The result was that Paul found Giuliani as attorney general to be “less objectionable but still a concern for civil liberties”. During a presidential debate, Giuliani interrupted Ron Paul and attacked him after Ron Paul suggested that the United States’ interventionist foreign policy was a contributing factor to the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 19:56 UTC