Rand Paul says GOP colleagues 'don’t give a s‑‑t about these people in the boats': They 'say they’re pro-life'

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Sen. Rand Paul , R-Ky., accused his "pro-life" Republican colleagues of not caring about the people killed in boat strikes near Venezuela who the Trump administration, without providing evidence, claims were trafficking fentanyl. During an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" released on Tuesday. Paul said GOP lawmakers "don't give a s‑‑-" about the people who died on the vessels, blasting his colleagues for not granting the presumption of innocence. "I look at my colleagues who say they’re pro-life, and they value God's inspiration in life, but they don't give a s‑‑- about these people in the boats," Paul said. "Are they terrible people in the boats? I don't know. They're probably poor people in Venezuela and Colombia." "I guess what I don't feel connected to my Republican colleagues is that those lives don't matter at all, and we just blow them up. And against all justice, and against all laws of war, all laws of just war, we have never blown up people who were shipwrecked," he added, referring to the administration's reported targeting and killing of survivors of initial strikes who were clinging to wreckage. RAND PAUL SAYS TRUMP'S THREAT TO BOMB IRAN 'IS NOT THE ANSWER': NOT THE 'JOB OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT' The liberty-minded Republican said it is "against the military code of justice to do that." "We're doing it and everybody just says, 'Oh, well, they're drug dealers,'" he said. Paul criticized his fellow GOP lawmakers who have repeated the administration's claims about the boats carrying fentanyl. He also took issue with colleagues who hold the position of, "Well, we’re at war with them. They’re committing war by bringing drugs into America." "They’re not even coming here," Paul explained. "They’re going to these islands in the south part of the Caribbean . The cocaine — and it’s not fentanyl at all — the cocaine’s going to Europe." He emphasized that "those little boats can’t get here." "No one’s even asked this common question: Those boats have the…