Marco Rubio’s Lies about Mahmoud Khalil Debunked by Lawyer

Mar 21, 2025 | Katie talks to Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber and Palestinian-American journalist Said Arikat about Marco Rubio's lies and excuses for the illegal detainment of Mahmoud Khalil.

Marco Rubio: Prodigal Son »

Marco Rubio says he would come to the U.S. illegally if he had to »

Marco Rubio’s early political years reveal softer line on immigration »

Trump Will Cut Off Elon Musk, It's Just a Matter of Time | Joe Walsh

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The White House Gets a Tesla Dealership | The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Mar 12, 2025 | With Tesla being overrun by protesters at dealerships, Donald Trump made sure to support Musk's company by making the White House Lawn into a Tesla showroom. Steve Schmidt looks at the Tesla stunt from Trump and explains why this is all a distraction from the real issues facing our country.

Ukraine Must Cede Territory in Any Peace Deal, Rubio Says

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The secretary of state, heading to talks with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, said future talks with Moscow will be needed to determine what Russia is willing to give up to end the war.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that Ukraine would have to make concessions over land that Russia had taken since 2014 as part of any agreement to end the war. » | Alan Rappeport | Traveling with the secretary of state | Monday, March 10, 2025

Is this what Trump calls the 'Art of the Deal': peace at any price? Russia invades the Ukraine and Trump expects the Ukrainians to give up land for peace! There is something drastically wrong with this picture. – © Mark Alexander

Will Marco Rubio Resign? Trump Faces ‘Revolving Door’ of Cabinet as Elon Musk Takes Charge

Feb 27, 2025 | “His administration was a revolving door.”

Trump’s cabinet picks will be rethinking allying themselves with the president after the turmoil of recent weeks, says The Lincoln Project’s Ryan Wiggins.

What the US and Russia Might Agree On without Ukraine and Europe | DW News

Feb 18, 2025 | US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov today in Saudi Arabia.

Talks are aimed at setting up negotiations for a peace plan for Ukraine without Kyiv or Europe at the table. It's the first high-level meeting between the two countries since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbor three years ago. A day earlier, European leaders held an emergency summit in Paris over the prospect of being excluded from peace talks.

US to Send Migrants & Criminals to El Salvador's Mega Prison? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Tue, Feb 4, 2025 | El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, has made an unprecedented offer to the US. He has offered to take in undocumented migrants in the US, no matter their country of origin. He has also offered to put convicted American criminals in El Salvador's Mega Prison. Bukele has overseen a sharp fall in gang crime in El Salvador. But arbitrary arrests, custodial torture and extrajudicial killings have been on the rise. Will the US send its criminals to a Black Site in El Salvador? Will Bukele's Mega Prison become the new Guantanamo Bay?

Trump Says He Would Jail Americans in El Salvador ‘in a Heartbeat’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The proposal is almost certainly illegal, experts said, but President Trump’s eagerness to entertain it showed his willingness to embrace extreme measures to demonstrate he is tough on crime.

A screenshot taken from this article in today’s New York Times. | For President Trump, even musing over the proposal signaled his willingness to embrace extreme measures to show he is tough on crime and illegal immigration. | Eric Lee/The New York Times
President Trump said on Tuesday that he was open to an offer by El Salvador’s president to jail convicted criminals, including American citizens, in the Central American nation’s notorious “megaprison.”

“If we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat,” Mr. Trump said.

He almost surely does not have the legal right to do it, legal experts say, and any attempt to carry out President Nayib Bukele’s plan would probably be challenged in court.

But Mr. Bukele’s proposal to essentially turn El Salvador into a penal colony for the United States showed how far he is willing to go to define himself as Mr. Trump’s primary ally in a region that the American president has disparaged. And for Mr. Trump, even musing over the proposal signaled his willingness to embrace extreme measures to show he is tough on crime and illegal immigration.

“It’s quite extraordinary and unprecedented and alarming in many ways,” said Michael E. Shifter, a senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue research institute in Washington. “I know a lot of experts have raised questions about the constitutionality and legality of this deal, but Bukele is a leader who has absolute power in El Salvador and it seems Trump seems to be moving in a similar direction in trying to reduce or eliminate any checks on his power.” » | Zolan Kanno-Youngs | Reporting from Washington | Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Trump needs no Heinrich Himmler when he’s got Marco Rubio to sort things out for him! – © Mark Alexander

Marco Rubio Bans Rainbow Flags at Embassies

LGBTQ NATION: Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrated the move: "I'm not tired of winning!!"

Secretary of State Mark Rubio issued a “One Flag Policy” on Tuesday this week, which will allow three flags to be flown at U.S. outposts: the U.S. flag, the POW/MIA flag, and the Hostages and Wrongful Detainees flag, the rightwing Free Beacon reports.

“Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content,” the order states, according to the Free Beacon. “The flag of the United States of America united all Americans under the universal principles of justice, liberty, and democracy. These values, which are the bedrock of our great country, are shared by all American citizens, past and present.” » | Alex Bollinger | Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Senator Rubio Destroys Anti-Israel Voices | #shorts

He says that Hamas are 100% to blame for all the deaths of civilians.

Marco Rubio Tweets Out Death Threat To Venezuelan Leader

On Sunday, Marco Rubio sent out a cryptic warning to Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro that only included a before and after picture of Moammar Gaddafi. One picture was before US intervention and one was right before Gaddafi was brutally murdered. Rubio’s tweet can only be viewed as a threat of what the United States wants to do to Maduro in Venezuela, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

Rubio on Saudi Arabia: If Trump Won't Act, Congress Will

Deutsche Welle talks to US Senator Marco Rubio | DW English

US Senator Marco Rubio, who ran against US President Donald Trump during the Republican primaries, tells DW's Zhanna Nemtsova that talk of Trump's impeachment over alleged Russian ties is premature.

Sen. Rubio on U.S. Strike on Syria Air Base, Removing al-Assad

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio joins "CBS This Morning" from the Capitol to discuss the U.S. military strike on the Syrian Shayrat air base, believed to be the origin of the plane that launched the latest chemical attack on Syrians. Rubio also discusses the risks behind the strike and how President Bashar al-Assad could be ousted.

Marco Rubio doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He has a simplistic solution to an extremely complicated problem. Sorry, Mr. Rubio, you’re wrong! – Mark

Full Interview: Marco Rubio with Jake Tapper

Sen. Marco Rubio talks with CNN's Jake Tapper about President Trump's wiretap claims, the controversy around Attorney General Jeff Sessions and more during is appearance on CNN's State of the Union.

Obama On Marco Rubio. Perhaps Marco Ought to Play Golf!

Marco Rubio Bought Gun to Be 'Last Line of Defence between ISIL and My Family'

Republican presidential candidate< Senator Marco Rubio

THE TELEGRAPH: Republican presidential candidate says he bought a gun on Christmas Eve in part to protect his family from Isil

Senator Marco Rubio has said he bought a gun on Christmas Eve because he is "the last line of defence between Isis [Isil] and my family".

The Republican presidential candidate said "millions of Americans" buy guns so they will be prepared to fend off attacks from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), or otherwise protect their families.

He suggested in an interview on Sunday that Isil had provided some of the impetus for his most recent gun purchase.

"I have a right to protect my family if someone were to come after us," he said on CBS' Face the Nation. "In fact, if Isis were to visit us or our communities at any moment, the last line of defence between Isis and my family is the ability I have to protect my family." » | David Lawler, Washimgton | Monday, January 18, 2016

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Marco Rubio Leads Way for 2016 Republican Challengers

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: It may only be less than two weeks since they lost to Barack Obama, but potential Republican candidates are already jostling for position for the 2016 presidential election race.

Marco Rubio, the 41-year-old Florida Senator who is the Republicans’ most prominent Latino, led the way with a speech this weekend, calling for immigration reform and lower taxes as the party seeks to make itself more broadly acceptable.

"The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, but make poor people richer," Senator Rubio said, taking a swipe at Mr Obama's plans to raise taxes on millionaires.

He was speaking at a birthday celebration for the Republican Governor of Iowa, a swing state whose 2016 caucus will officially get the race to find a Republican candidate under way.

Mr Rubio, a Cuban American with a flashing smile and a rags-to-riches back story, presents a stark contrast with the staid, establishment figure of 65-year-old Mitt Romney whose campaign conspicuously failed to win over Hispanic, black or young women voters.

"Our workers are not making as much as they made in the same jobs 25 years ago," Mr Rubio said. "My father was a bartender. My mother was a maid at a hotel. They were able to provide for us a standard of living." » | Peter Foster, Washington | Sunday, November 18, 2012

Sen. Rubio: Romney Look[ed], Spoke, and acted Like a President
Florida senator on Romney's debate performance, 2012