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Free Beacon: Rand Paul aide was a John Wilkes Booth superfan

Alana Goodman of the Free Beacon has a story out this morning revealing that Rand Paul’s social media director, Jack Hunter, has spent years working as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist:

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In one 2004 commentary, Hunter said Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth’s heart was “in the right place.”

He later wrote that he “raise[s] a personal toast every May 10 to celebrate John Wilkes Booth’s birthday.”

In one 2008 monologue, Hunter said the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II was the moral equivalent of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Unfortunately, there’s more. Read the whole thing.

Many Twitter users were reminded of Rand Paul’s dad’s newsletter problem:

Some Twitter users want to know if Sen. Paul will fire the aide:

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This is the kind of story that would get a lot of attention during a national political campaign:

https://twitter.com/ScooterSchaefer/status/354611339928420353

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