Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, MD used the Heimlich maneuver to quickly save Iowa colleague Joni Ernst from choking to death during a caucus lunch, Politico’s Burgess Everett reports.
It’s not clear if Paul needed to stand on a chair to get in the proper position or if Ted Cruz was sitting at the same table and laughed “Hahahaha! Look everyone, Joni’s pretending to choke! Okay Joni, that’s not funny anymore. You can stop now,” before Paul pushed the chair up to aid Ernst.
Dr Anthony Fauci did not comment either, but probably would have said “Oh wow, that fucking asshole finally used something from his four years of med school on the job? Color me impressed.”