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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1433 Was the Ron Paul Campaign Secretly Backed by the Russians?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The chairman of the Libertarian National Committee recently linked to what has to be one of the most preposterous articles I have ever read, alleging Russian involvement in the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign. The Ron Paul Institute, for its part, has been accused of whitewashing the records of dictators and turning a blind eye to injustices abroad. Institute executive director Daniel McAdams joins me to address all this.

Show notes for Ep. 1433

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1433.

0:03.3

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.9

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0:14.4

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0:46.9

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Oh, man, this conversation is by sheer necessity.

0:53.2

It's got to be done. I wish we didn't have to have this

0:56.5

conversation, but we do. Apparently, there's been some kind of exchange between the chairman

1:03.6

of the Libertarian National Committee, Nick Sarwork, and the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and

1:08.5

Prosperity. We're going to get to the bottom of it. But it culminated in the insinuation that, of all things, I swear to you this happened.

1:18.3

I swear it happened that the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign was bankrolled or in some way influenced by the Russian government.

1:28.4

Now, that's one I have not heard from anyone.

1:32.8

I mean, I know people lose their minds when they talk about Russia,

1:36.6

and there's a lot of insanity surrounding Russia.

1:40.4

But this one, this is a first.

1:42.0

This one is brand new to me.

1:44.0

And it turns out that the evidence for this does not exist.

1:48.6

The chairman of the party linked to an article, we're going to talk about this in a minute, linked to an article that purports to demonstrate this.

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