One thing I’ll never like about Mark Warner: the way he goes out of his way to mainstream guys like Marco Rubio who would sell their own mothers to get to the next step on the ladder.
Warner, for some reason, felt it necessary to put out a statement in his name on the news from Wednesday that Donald Trump will nominate Rubio, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which Warner chairs, to serve as Secretary of State.
“I have worked with Marco Rubio for more than a decade on the Intelligence Committee, particularly closely in the last couple of years in his role as Vice Chairman, and while we don’t always agree, he is smart, talented, and will be a strong voice for American interests around the globe,” Warner said in the statement.
“Don’t always agree” doesn’t quite tell the story with Rubio, who argued with news anchors over what Trump meant when he said Liz Cheney would think differently about sending troops into combat zones if she had guns pointed at her.
We all know, of course, that Trump’s father paid two doctors to keep him out of Vietnam, and that he sent troops into combat zones in Afghanistan, in Yemen, and he pushed us to the brink with Iran and North Korea, among others.
How would he feel about all of that if there guns were pointing in his face, would seem a fair question.
Rubio also made the case for Trump in the face of claims from his former chief of staff, John Kelly, and Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, that Trump is fascist to the core, calling the warnings from Kelly and Milley “entirely a political hit job where these people are trying to elevate themselves to become more employable and be able to make more money.”
Funny how “Little Marco” making these statements as a Trump surrogate made him more employable and able to make more money, eh?
Rubio even sullied whatever good name he had left after year of shilling for Trump by going to bat for the far-right podcast influencers who were exposed as Russian dupes, claiming the misinformation they were spreading for the money they were paid by Russian handlers was just “pre-existing political opinions that have existed well before any Russian engagement or involvement or what have you,” and that the influencers were actually “victims” in the case.
This is the guy that Mark Warner is trying to sanewash for us.
The only reason Trump is pushing him for Secretary of State is so that he can engineer Rubio’s Senate seat to go to his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
Warner is a smart enough guy to see that for what it is.
It doesn’t make sense for him to pretend otherwise.
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Chris Graham
