Payback

Rand Paul Denies GQ Story

Over article about his college antics.

Looks like Rand Paul wasn’t too amused by GQ’s story about his college antics, which included allegations that he kidnapped a female student at Baylor, forced her to smoke marijuana, and then made her worship a pagan God. “We are investigating all our options—including legal ones,” his campaign tells Dave Weigel. “We will not tolerate drive-by journalism by a writer with a leftist agenda.” GQ is standing by the article, and Editor-in-Chief Jim Nelson says it was “vetted, researched, and exhaustively fact-checked.” After Paul's campaign sidestepped the story's credibility Monday, Rand disputed it on Tuesday, saying "The story just borders on ridiculous."