How Trump Turned Rubio Into a Sycophant

Dec 4, 2025 | The Trump era has turned loyalty into a currency, and Marco Rubio has fully embraced it at the expense of decency and truth. Steve Schmidt explains how Rubio’s behavior fits into a broader collapse of ethics and accountability in the United States.

Marco Rubio disgusts every decent human being. — © Mark Alexander

Democracy Now! Is the US News Planning to Assassinate Maduro?

Nov 7, 2025 | The U.S. is continuing to blow up boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific despite growing international condemnation, while the Trump administration reportedly considers launching airstrikes on Venezuela or even assassinating President Nicolás Maduro.

“We are committing wanton criminal acts of assassination in the Caribbean [against] innocent people who haven’t been found guilty of anything, and kind of setting the stage for an attack on Caracas itself in an attempt to take out its leader,” says Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive.

Kornbluh also discusses the legacy of the Church Committee 50 years ago, which investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies, including coups and assassinations abroad.


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"Rubio's Ideological Project": What's Driving Trump's Campaign against Venezuela?

Oct 27, 2025 | The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region is growing as the Pentagon deploys the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean. Alejandro Velasco, associate professor at New York University, says the Latin American policy is "primarily Marco Rubio's ideological project," motivated by a desire to oust the government of Venezuela and weaken the allied government of Cuba.

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Why Nicolás Maduro Faces Criminal Charges in the U.S.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called Mr. Maduro, the Venezuelan leader who faces narco-terrorism charges, a “fugitive from American justice.”

Trump administration officials seeking to remove Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Venezuela have been citing a federal indictment returned half a decade ago in Manhattan as one justification.

The indictment, by a grand jury in March 2020 during President Trump’s first term, charges Mr. Maduro in a decades-long narco-terrorism and international cocaine trafficking conspiracy, and accuses him of overseeing a violent drug cartel as he rose to lead the South American nation. The United States is offering a $50 million reward for his capture.

The United States does not recognize Mr. Maduro as Venezuela’s president, but the decision to indict a putative head of state was unusual, representing an escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure Mr. Maduro to leave office.

Now, with the charges still pending, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser, has repeatedly mentioned the 2020 indictment and called Mr. Maduro a “fugitive from American justice,” seemingly opening the door further to efforts by the United States to oust Mr. Maduro and seize him as it would any criminal on the run from the law. » | Benjamin Weiser | Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Marco Rubio Plans to Provoke a Military Coup in Venezuela | Christopher Sabatini

Sep 19, 2025 | "Marco Rubio is a Cuban American. Nicolás Maduro is enemy number one."

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro called Marco Rubio the "lord of death and war" after the US carried out “extra-judicial killings” in the Caribbean, bombing two alleged Venezuelan drug boats and killing 14 personnel without clear evidence. Christopher Sabatini, Senior Fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, says Trump and Rubio want to "take out" Maduro's regime by provoking a military coup, without resorting to boots on the ground.

Marco Rubio Goes Full Freakish Cult Member on Donald Trump

Jun 27, 2025 | Jesse talks about an interview of Secretary of State Marco Rubi with Politico’s Dasha Burns. In the interview, Rubio gushes like a love-drunk teen about Donald Trump’s ‘uncanny instincts.’ He is effectively talking the President’s Cabinet out of their jobs by asserting that Donald Trump is so smart that he doesn’t need advisors. He said, "His instincts are uncanny. The President has incredible instincts about the right thing to do. When he says this is the direction I want to go, our job is not to spend the whole day trying to change his mind... Our job is to execute on the President's vision based on really uncanny instincts."

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.

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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