Ron Paul Liked His Newsletter in 1995

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 12:50PM EDT / Published Dec. 22, 2011 1:12PM EST

Ron Paul’s claim that he didn’t know about the racist content of the newsletter published under his name in the 1980s and ’90s is looking shaky a day after he stormed out of an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger. “Why don’t you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20 something years, 22 years ago?” he told Borger when asked about the newsletter. People did, and they found a 1995 C-Span interview in which he described the newsletter as a passion project after his career in Congress, a “political type of business, investment newsletter.” And in a 1996 interview with the Dallas Morning News, he didn’t deny authorship of the racist statements but said they had to be read in context.

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Ron Paul Liked His Newsletter in 1995