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Rand Paul: ‘Deceptive, Deceitful’ Actions By Gruber, Obama ‘Henchmen’ Need To Be Investigated [VIDEO]

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Appearing on “Hannity” Monday night, Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul added his two cents on the recently-unearthed comments by MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, telling Sean Hannity the “deceptive and deceitful” actions by the economist and others who helped craft Obamacare are a “disgrace.”

The Kentucky Senator also told the host he plans to ask for an investigation from the investigator general and “ask that he return his pay” based on his aforementioned deceptive and deceitful behavior.

Rand Paul: Well, you know, it’s amazing. There was the public deception by the president and all of his henchmen and women, but also the deception of paid consultants. The one thing we can do is that this Mr. Gruber, this Jonathan Gruber, he was paid and now he’s admitted he was deceptive and deceitful, I’m going to ask for an investigation from the investigator general and ask that he return his pay. Because how can you — how can we pay someone to be a consultant to government who’s frankly admitting they were dishonest? So I think he should be made to return his pay.

The other thing we ought to investigate is there’s about ten different states where he got between $200,000 and $400,000 for specific reports. Who was sort of organizing this for him? Is this some sort of thing that happened within government? Was he just able to market himself everywhere? Or was this all coming as sort of an organized way to enrich Obama consultants? But this is a disgrace. Now totals are saying as much as $6 million. I think we ought to talk about having him give it back to the taxpayer.