The worst kept secret in American politics is that Marco Rubio desperately wants to be president, but he has none of the skills of a potentially adequate president.
Rubio first tried to defeat Trump in 2016, and when it didn’t work, to put it mildly, then-Sen. Rubio began his gradual transformation into Trump’s super lapdog, culminating in his appointment as Trump’s secretary of state.
Sarah Jones debunks Trump’s lies about war on Iran:
As secretary of state, Rubio has not been the level playing field that many of his former Senate colleagues had hoped for. In fact, Rubio’s worst and most inadequate traits are revealed by Trump, seemingly handing him every new task that arises within the administration.
Rubio tried to come up with a convincing explanation for why Trump launched a war of choice with Iran right away.
First, Rubio angrily tried to clean up the mess he made on Monday, saying, “Yesterday you told us that Israel was going to hit Iran and that’s why we had to get involved today. The president said no, Iran was going to get, yeah, your statement is wrong. So that’s not what he was asked very specifically, were you there yesterday?”
The reporter replied: “Yes. I asked the question.”
Rubio then left:
No. Were you, were you the one who, because someone asked me a question, said to me: did we enter because of Israel? And I said, you asked me that, are you in the suite? And I said no, I told you this had to happen. Regardless, the President made a decision and the decision that he made was that Iran would not be allowed to hide behind its ballistic missile program, that Iran would not be allowed to hide behind its ability to carry out these attacks, that the decision had been made, the President systematically made the decision to systematically destroy this terrorist capability that they had, and we implemented it. I was very clear in this response. It was a question of timing and why this should be a joint operation, not a question of intent.
Once the president decided that the negotiations would not succeed, that they were playing us in the negotiations and that this was an untenable threat, the decision was made to strike them. That’s what I said yesterday, and you have to play it. If you want to play these statements, you have to play the statement in its entirety, not cut it up to achieve the narrative you want to make.
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Rubio had much more to do with his collapse.
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