Rubio Blasted Clinton for Her Emails. Now He Says Trump's Theft of Top-Secret Records Is No Biggie

[babylonsister]

Vote him out!


September 8, 2022
Rubio Blasted Clinton for Her Emails. Now He Says Trump’s Theft of Top-Secret Records Is No Biggie
The Republican Senator and intelligence committee member says it’s just a “storage” issue. Uh huh.
David Corn


As the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is one of the US officials who shares the mission of safeguarding the nation’s most important secrets. The committee is responsible for oversight of the intelligence community, and that duty includes the task of ensuring sensitive information is handled appropriately and kept secured. Yet in the aftermath of the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago to seize government records, including classified documents, that Donald Trump had improperly (and perhaps illegally) taken from the White House, Rubio has been one of the loudest voices denouncing the bureau and amplifying the MAGA message that Trump has been unfairly victimized by Democrats and the Deep State. And that’s quite a different position than the one Rubio took regarding Hillary Clinton’s handling of emails at the State Department.

A few days ago, Rubio pooh-poohed the raid and the entire controversy during an interview with a local Miami news anchor: “This is really at its core a storage argument that they’re making. They’re arguing that there are documents there. They don’t deny that he should have access to those documents. They deny they were not properly stored. I don’t think a fight over storage of documents is worthy of what they’ve done”

Rubio was spinning. The main issue is that Trump, as an ex-president, did not legitimately have the authority to possess these papers. It’s not a question of access. The documents belong to the US government. This is far more than a “fight over storage.” As a senator who chaired the intelligence committee when the Republicans controlled the Senate, Rubio certainly is aware of this. No president or CIA director or FBI chief or any US government official can walk out with top-secret documents when he or she leaves the position. Yet weeks earlier, appearing on Mark Levin’s radio show, Rubio charged that the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump’s possession of government papers was not a justified inquiry. And Rubio, as one of the few members of Congress with regular access to intelligence secrets at the highest level, has direct experience handling such documents and knows that Trump was not adequately protecting these secrets.

Rubio’s stance on the FBI raid is an odd one for an official critically involved with top-secret matters. Yet as he runs for reelection against Rep. Val Demmings (D-Fla.), Rubio has tried to exploit right-wing outrage over the FBI action to bulk up his campaign warchest. He recently zapped out a fundraising email that characterized the bureau’s search of Mar-a-Lago as part of the “radical left’s witch hunt.” (Reality check: the head of the FBI is a Republican who was appointed by Trump.) This letter equated the raid with the practices of a communist tyranny: “I’ll say it plain and simple, using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from Marxist dictatorships, but now, we’re seeing it from the Biden administration.”

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/09/marco-rubio-blasted-clinton-for-her-emails-now-he-says-trumps-theft-of-top-secret-records-is-no-biggie/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It's OK if you're a Republican . . . . . .

[Mr. Ected]

2. You can't tell a MAGAT that what Trump did rises to the level of espionage and treason

Without a response that includes the words "Hillary" or "Hunter".

Not only do they not understand that what they've been led to believe is the truth is actually a fabrication and exaggeration of the facts, they simply cannot grasp the scale of Trump's crimes, their brazenness, or even their existence, since the same media that goaded them to believe that Dems are the Enemy of the State seem to shy away from reporting on the ACTUAL enemies of the state, the ones they instead glorify and deify on their "news" channels every day.

[spanone]

3. GO VAL DEMMINGS!!!!!

Run his lazy, partisan ass out of office.

[kentuck]

4. Rubio does not have the character to be a US Senator.

He needs to be sent home.

[Phoenix61]

5. TFG doesn't have the right to access classified records.

If he can’t get briefings now, and he can’t because Biden banned him from getting them, he can’t access classified documents. Not surprised Rubio is confused about this. He ain’t the brightest bulb in the box.

[Brainfodder]

6. What else is a MAGAT gonna say?

Rubio is a first wall of shamer.

I doubt he can keep his lies straight under questioning.

[Turbineguy]

7. No surprise there

National security is for libtards.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Lil Marco is a fine example of the party of hate and hypocrisy.