Ron Paul calls $20 billion BP escrow fund a ‘PR stunt,’ ‘suspicious’

Ron Paul calls $20 billion BP escrow fund a ‘PR stunt,’ ‘suspicious’

BP’s $20 billion escrow fund is a “PR stunt” that came about through a “suspicious” process, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Tuesday night.

Though Paul didn’t go as far as fellow Texan Rep. Joe Barton (R), who called the fund a “shakedown,” he nevertheless said the “process is sort of suspicious.”

“They have agreed to this and this is sort of a PR stunt as far as I’m concerned,” Paul told Fox News. “BP had already been making a lot of payments to people who had been injured.”

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