Did Rubio trade the integrity of U.S. for a Cuba-policy shift from Trump?

[DonViejo]

BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO
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It may be hard to fathom outside of Miami, but the faraway island of Cuba and Cuban-American politics could have played a role in Thursday’s historic hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Did the influential Republican senator from Miami on the committee, Marco Rubio, trade the integrity of this country for the pledge of a U.S. policy shift on Cuba from President Donald Trump? The optics — and the timing of a yet unscheduled visit by Trump to Miami to announce a rollback advocated by Rubio of President Barack Obama’s engagement policy — certainly make it seem that way. Before Rubio’s intervention, the testimony by former FBI director James Comey had grown impressively damning to President Trump in the same manner a steady, thoughtful, and detail-oriented prosecutor builds a case.

Comey testified that, in a series of uncomfortable conversations before Trump fired him, the president had given him high praise and demanded loyalty. Trump made it known to him that he wanted the criminal investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn dropped and the “cloud” of the investigation into Trump’s campaign ties to Russian interference “lifted,” Comey said.

There’s no understating the moment — it was grave.

Obstruction of justice easily came to mind — but then, it was Rubio’s turn to ask Comey questions. Or, more like it, to turn Comey’s testimony around and ask rhetorical questions that inserted doubt into Comey’s candid revelations. Rubio shifted the attention from Trump to leaks to the media. As for information, Rubio seemed most interested in getting Comey to publicly admit that President Trump “was not personally under investigation” than in obtaining any new evidence for the Senate investigation.

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[gademocrat7]

1. Little Marco doing chump's bidding.

[dalton99a]

2. Little Marco is just another GOP scumbag

[MagickMuffin]

3. To answer the question, Marco Rubio never had any integrity to begin with

He claimed he didn't like his job as Senator and he wouldn't seek reelection, yet he decided that being in the Senate is such an easy paycheck. Plus the added bonus of kickbacks from Russia, and other shifty players.

[kimbutgar]

4. I never understood how they re elected him

Poor voting record in senate, many absences, evidence of corruption and he still got re elected. That's flo ri duh for you.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Perhaps he had help from the Russians, after all they got trump'd in the WH

And considering that FL is who the Russians targeted according to the revelations we learned through Reality Winner makes one wonder!