Rubio Says It's 'Arrogant' to Impeach Trump to Bar Him from Running Again

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) on Sunday called the effort to impeach former President Trump in order to bar him from running for office again “arrogant,” saying “voters get to decide” who is elected.

“I think that’s an arrogant statement for anyone to make,” Rubio responded when asked by host Chis Wallace on Fox News Sunday about whether Trump should be impeached to prevent a future campaign for office.

“Voters get to decide that. Who are we to tell voters who they can vote for in the future?” the Florida Republican asked.

The House is set to deliver the single article of impeachment against Trump on grounds of “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate on Monday, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) has said that the impeachment trial will begin the week of February 8.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rubio-says-its-arrogant-to-impeach-trump-to-bar-him-from-running-again/ar-BB1d35XZ?ocid=DELLDHP&li=BBnbfcL

No.

You know what's arrogant little Marco? When congress people decide they're going to override the voters because they didn't like the outcome of an election. That's what your party tried to do.

[orangecrush]

1. Bite me, Marco

That is all.

[Walleye]

2. Little,little Marco. It's past your bedtime

[mitch96]

24. Yes it's time for lil marco to stfu... nt

[Walleye]

25. I don't see how his wife can stand him

[mitch96]

29. Follow the money. He quit and came back to the senate b/c he could not find a job

that paid as well...
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[Walleye]

30. 😩😭He'll never get a real job after enabling Trump like that

[ZZenith]

3. What's more arrogant than attempting to murder Congress in order to prevent them

from ratifying your election loss?

Nothing. That’s the answer - nothing could possibly be more arrogant.

Sit down and STFU Mr. Rubio.

[malaise]

36. THIS

Ambition has blinded these accessories to murder

[ZZenith]

37. Or Self-Preservation has opened their eyes wide to the necessity of sticking to the script.

They’ll hang together or hang separately.

My money’s on “separately.”

[malaise]

49. We'll see

Clearing my calendar and stocking up on snacks

[Irish_Dem]

4. I'm speechless.

[Cha]

5. Just STOP PROJECTING

your Dumbshit Arrogance, stupid rubio.

[dem4decades]

6. Spineless puke says what?

[JI7]

7. I hope Ivanka Beats him in the Primary and then a Democrat Beats Ivanka in the GE

[machoneman]

43. Careful now! You may get your wish as South Florida just might vote for the Ice Princess....

...and get her a general election win as well!

Instead, I'll take punching bag Marko for $500, Alex!

[Takket]

8. If he could pull his face out of drumpf's Ass

For ten seconds. Maybe he would realize he isn’t president anymore.

[LizBeth]

9. The impeachment is because he incited an insurrection.

[Frerotte]

10. Insurrection

Insurrection doesn't seem to be a very serious thing to the folks.

Cannot for the life of me understand their thinking or lack thereof.

[Claire Oh Nette]

18. desperation

They fear the white nationalists and racists they got into bed with.

There is nothing more arrogant than Vanilla Isis all ginned up on hate trying to over throw the Legislative Branch because their guy lost and they don't want to follow the Golden Rule.

Rubio continues to support Sedition.

[LizBeth]

19. +1. I hear you, crazy. Killed cop doesn't even make them blink.

[Hoyt]

11. Damn sure don't want trump or any other ignorant racist POS in office,

but I am a bit uncomfortable trying to prevent people from running, if that is main/only reason for trial. Sorry. Although I think the House was right to impeach him.

[Walleye]

26. So should Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis have been permitted to serve in the government again?

Traitors have no place in our government and they are a security risk. Trump in particular is a huge security risk

[Hoyt]

27. The ultimate court is the voters. If he gets convicted of something, he

can’t run.

An Impeachment trial’s purpose is to remove reprobates from office. He’s gone now, thanks to voters. In the unlikely event he runs in 4 years — or is even alive — voters will beat him again.

[Walleye]

28. I'm not worried about fouryears from now I'm worried about when he starts his rallies the very next

day. He’s now leading a white supremacist terrorist movement. Plus I don’t wanna pay him a pension for the rest of his miserable life. He should forfeit it

[Hoyt]

31. He'll not lose his pension, no matter what. Impeachment trial won't stop him from

leading racist hate groups. Now convicting him in a criminal proceeding, will stop that. Of course, you have to impanel a jury that won’t hang. I think that’s all but impossible in this country.

I despise the man and the voters he attracts, but I’m a little wary of a political trial if the main purpose is to keep him from running in the future. Not sure that’s democracy, even though I would applaud that result.

[Walleye]

32. It is a separate vote. And they made the law for a reason. I get where you're coming from though

Problem is even when we beat them in election he wouldn’t go away

[AmyStrange]

33. +100000000000000000000000000000000 x 2

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Didn't even answer your question.
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[SMC22307]

12. 'Lil Marco v. Nepotism Barbie is gonna be hilarious. The Lincoln Project will have a field day!

Surely a Democrat can win that seat?! Where's the Stacey Abrams of Floriduh?

[sheshe2]

13. Rubio allowing trump crossing of the Rubicon?

Hail Trump?

Julius Caesar's crossing the Rubicon river on January 10, 49 BC[1] precipitated the Roman Civil War, which ultimately led to Caesar's becoming dictator and the rise of the imperial era of Rome. Caesar had been appointed to a governorship over a region that ranged from southern Gaul to Illyricum (but not Italy). As his term of governorship ended, the Roman Senate ordered Caesar to disband his army and return to Rome. He was explicitly ordered not to take his army across the Rubicon river, which was at that time a northern boundary of Italy. In January of 49 BC, Caesar brought the 13th legion across the river, which the Roman government considered insurrection, treason, and a declaration of war on the Roman Senate. According to some authors, he is said to have uttered the phrase "alea iacta est"—the die is cast—as his army marched through the shallow river.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Rubicon

[badboy67]

14. Republicans let you vote, then spend 3 months trying to invalidate it.

And don't you love how Fascists yell about "tone," as they're simultaneously trying to murder democracy and the U.S. Constitution right in broad daylight?

IMHO

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. L'il Marco wants tRump in the race?

What the hell does Putin and MF45 have on him?

He should be jumping at the chance to remove the tRump criminals from American politics.

[Tribetime]

16. When voters are fed false info non stop from

You and fox newsmax etc Im sure the Republican assholes approve this ...THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS PURE EVIL

[struggle4progress]

17. "I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution but I don't mind an occasional coup attempt"

[lastlib]

20. Was that what that gurgling noise was??

Marco, just proceed with self fornication, you worthless little prick! With a pitchfork.

[2naSalit]

21. He always whines when he knows he's gonna get in trouble.

[lpbk2713]

22. Of course Rubio would say that.

He's a GOP lap dog.

[MiniMe]

23. Look out Marco, Ivanka is coming after your Senate seat

[Hekate]

34. Lil Marco: enjoy the hell out of being primaried by Ivanka

[OnDoutside]

35. Lol. You just KNOW that he doesn't want that !!! Spineless to the end.

[Judi Lynn]

38. Narco needs to drop it. Trump wants Ivanka to take his job, anyway. Sucking up to Trump won't help.

Hasta la vista, Narco.

The drug-smuggling case that brought anguish to Marco Rubio’s family



Marco Rubio's sister, Barbara, and her husband, Orlando Cicilia. Cicilia at one time was a “front man” in a major drug ring out of Florida and served time in prison. (Univision Investiga)

By Manuel Roig-Franzia and
Scott HighamDecember 12, 2015

MIAMI — On Dec. 16, 1987, a teenager named Marco Rubio arrived home from school in West Miami to find his mother in anguish.

Earlier that day, federal drug agents raided a house a few miles away that his brother-in-law, Orlando Cicilia, shared with Rubio’s older sister, Barbara.

Cicilia, a large, sturdily built Cuban immigrant, had played an intimate role in Rubio’s early life. But as the future senator from Florida was finishing high school and preparing to go to college, his brother-in-law’s illicit career as a cocaine dealer was exposed in a major trial. Cicilia was eventually sentenced to a lengthy prison term in one of the biggest drug cases of Miami’s baroque cocaine-cowboys era.

Rubio, who was 16 at the time of the arrest, does not mention the ordeal as he runs for president, casting his family’s Cuban American immigrant story as the embodiment of the American Dream.

There is no evidence that Rubio or his parents were aware of Cicilia’s drug dealing, and Rubio’s sister was not suspected of any crime. But a deep look at those turbulent years — drawing on previously unreported Drug Enforcement Administration field reports and grand jury testimony, interviews with federal task force agents, and the senator’s writings — reveals that Cicilia was a central figure in the smuggling operation at the same time that he was integrated in the life of the Rubio family.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-drug-smuggling-ring-that-brought-anguish-tomarco-rubios-family/2015/12/12/473f3a2c-9db6-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html

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How Rubio helped his ex-con brother-in-law acquire a real estate license
By The Washington Post On Dec 31, 2015

By Scott Higham and Manuel Roig-Franzia

When Marco Rubio was majority whip of the Florida House of Representatives, he used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a real estate license to his brother-in-law, a convicted cocaine trafficker who had been released from prison 20 months earlier, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.

In July 2002, Rubio sent a letter on his official statehouse stationery to the Florida Division of Real Estate, recommending Orlando Cicilia “for licensure without reservation.” The letter, obtained by The Washington Post under the Florida Public Records Act, offers a glimpse of Rubio using his growing political power to assist his troubled brother-in-law and provides new insight into how the young lawmaker intertwined his personal and political lives.

Rubio did not disclose in the letter that Cicilia was married to his sister, Barbara, or that the former cocaine dealer was living at the time in the same West Miami home as Rubio’s parents. He wrote that he had known Cicilia “for over 25 years,” without elaborating.

Rubio has avoided discussing Cicilia’s case in detail and has declined to answer questions about his relationship with his brother-in-law. Earlier this month, prior to The Post publishing an article about Cicilia’s case, Rubio declined to answer a written question about whether he had helped win the approval of his brother-in-law’s real estate license.

More:
https://progresoweekly.us/how-rubio-helped-his-ex-con-brother-in-law-acquire-a-real-estate-license/



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Marco Rubio's Brother-in-Law Dealt Coke With the Miami Drug Lord From Tiger King
JESSICA LIPSCOMB | MARCH 30, 2020 | 8:00AM



The brother-in-law of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio once dealt cocaine with Mario Tabraue, the Miami zookeeper in Tiger King.Photo by Gage Skidmore / Photo courtesy of Netflix

If you're a red-blooded, quarantined American, chances are you spent this past weekend bingeing Tiger King, the new Netflix show about the insane feud between Oklahoma zookeeper Joe Exotic and Florida animal-rights activist Carole Baskin.

The seven-part docuseries introduces the world to a cast of kooky characters — to name just a few, there's Erik Cowie, the stoic head zookeeper at G.W. Zoo who's rarely seen without his sunglasses; Bhagavan "Doc" Antle, the polygamous big-cat breeder from Myrtle Beach; and Jeff Lowe, a scheming businessman who looks like he was created in a Daytona Beach meth lab by mixing equal parts White Claw and diesel fuel.

In the second episode of Tiger King (don't worry — no real spoilers here), viewers meet Mario Tabraue, a media-shy zookeeper from Miami who just so happened to run a massive cocaine ring back in the day. Tabraue was busted by the feds in December 1987 and subsequently convicted on multiple racketeering and drug charges. He was sentenced to 100 years in prison but released in 2003 following a successful appeal.

Tabraue's tale has all the classic marks of a great Miami crime story: a murder involving a machete, the smuggling of exotic animals, and, of course, a shit-ton of yeyo. But if you scratch the surface the teensiest bit deeper, you'll find another interesting layer: a connection to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

More:
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/tiger-king-mario-tabraue-dealt-drugs-with-marco-rubios-brother-in-law-11610690

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Even the MailOnLine did a story!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358281/Marco-Rubio-s-brother-law-man-international-drug-smuggling-ring-led-leopard-loving-cocaine-cowboy-kingpin-mansion-filled-big-cats-giraffe.html

[DFW]

40. Rubio "had known Cicilia "for over 25 years," without elaborating??" I'll elaborate.

The letter was written in 2001, when Rubio was 31. If he was saying he had known someone since he was six years old, just what kind of reference is he providing? That he liked his sandbox playmate, and that they harmoniously shared their playdough?

[Judi Lynn]

41. He claimed"communist Cuba" for years until someone announced his folks came before the Revolution.

They came over just like Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball's husband did. They came here to make more money, too.

I wonder if his father also wore ruffled shirts!

[DFW]

46. He probably claims he is a direct descendant of Zorro, too. N/T

[DFW]

39. "the effort to impeach former President Trump" is arrogant?

Got news for ya, little Marco, that effort was successful. He HAS been impeached.

And the Constitution of the United States decides what the consequences are if the impeachment results in a conviction. You want to argue with that? Get yourself a time machine and go hash it out with James Madison (look him up) and Thomas Jefferson (he's the guy on the nickel and the $2 bill).

How come when Republican-built and programed ESS voting machines report "surprise Republican upset victories," you are grinning like a Ceshire cat, but when those same machines report an overwhelming Democratic victory, you say the voters didn't decide? I realize the Republicans are The Double Standard Party, but there has to be a limit somewhere.

Come to think of it, I think the label GOP stands for something your party no longer is. DSP seems far more accurate these days.

[KewlKat]

42. I thought he was impeached again because he was guilty of

a crime and as a result should never be allowed to again hold the very office he used to commit the crime?

[Vinca]

44. Sure, Marco. Let's give the guy a chance to overthrow the government twice.

[GoCubsGo]

45. Little Marco muct be afraid of what they might uncover about him.

I have little doubt that he's complicit in the whole sordid affair, along with many of the other Republicans who are protesting this.

[lagomorph777]

47. That's a very arrogant thing to say.

[Johnny2X2X]

48. Rubio is tipping their hand

If the Reps barred Trump from running again, it would be the end of their party, period. Trump would get 40% of Republican voters to stay home permanently.