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Rand Paul fears Trump impeachment will ‘dumb down and destroy the country’

In this Nov. 6, 2019, file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., responds to reporters at the Capitol in Washington. Paul wants to combat the rising debt load for college students by allowing them to dip into retirement accounts to help pay for school or pay back loans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said Sunday he worried that the Democratic effort to impeach President Trump would “dumb down and destroy the country.”

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benitez in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump rips Fox for hosting Schiff, Comey: ‘Trying sooo hard to be politically correct’

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President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin during an arrival ceremony for the Russian president on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sept. 27, 1994. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)

Bill Clinton leak exposes Democrats’ double standard on impeachment

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President Barack Obama listens to President-elect Donald Trump speak during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama DOJ declined ‘defensive briefing’ for Trump campaign on Russia

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Police take away a protester during an anti-Boris Johnson demonstration, at Trafalgar Square in central London, Friday Dec. 13, 2019. Boris Johnson's gamble on early elections paid off as voters gave the UK prime minister a commanding majority to take the country out of the European Union by the end of January, a decisive result after more than three years of stalemate over Brexit. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Antifa protesters take to streets after Boris Johnson’s U.K. victory 40 minutes ago

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., one of seven scheduled Democratic candidates participating in a public education forum, answers a question, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in Pittsburgh. Topics at the event planned for discussion ranged from student services and special education to education equity and justice issues. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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In this Nov. 6, 2019, file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., responds to reporters at the Capitol in Washington. Paul wants to combat the rising debt load for college students by allowing them to dip into retirement accounts to help pay for school or pay back loans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rand Paul fears Trump impeachment will ‘dumb down and destroy the country’

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In this undated photo provided by Chatham County Sheriff's Department is Thomas Callaway, 43, of Statesboro, Ga., who was videotaped slapping a female reporter's rear on live TV and was arrested Friday, Dec. 13, 2019, on a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery. He was charged in connection with the incident that occurred while WSAV-TV reporter Alex Bozarjian was broadcasting live Dec. 7, as runners streamed past her on a prominent bridge in Savannah. Callaway's attorney declined comment Friday. (Chatham County Sheriff's Dept. via AP)

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In this April 18, 1958 file photo, Philip N. Brooks, right, a New York State surveyor, takes a look through his transit on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Niagara Falls, N.Y., while Tuscarora Chief Elton Black Cloud Greene watches. The tribe is resisting state seizure of their land for a power project. In 1959, the U.S. government started the switch from the U.S. survey foot to the international foot, and it will finish the job in 2022. (AP Photo)

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