As if he didn’t have enough on his plate. He’s not a bad guy. He has a crap boss and multiple hats depending on what he’s supposed to be doing at any point. [You can flame me later.] Any one of them would be enough to handle. Oops. Good thing I checked. He is following in the steps of Henry Kissinger, holding Sec’y of State and Acting National Security Advisor at the same time. He stepped down from the Acting Admin of USAID and Acting Archivist of the US. Nevertheless, those two are more than enough. When does he sleep? And yes, detoured, back on topic. Someone is with him on a trip that has no business being there. Gratitude to Raw Story:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stammered out an explanation when cornered by reporters about the presence of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law at a high-level meeting with foreign officials. Michael Boulos, the husband of the president’s younger daughter Tiffany Trump, sat beside the secretary of state during a meeting on Wednesday with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and Rubio appeared to be caught flat-footed when asked Thursday in Kuwait about his role in the talks. “Oh, he was there to see – his brother lives here,” Rubio told reporters. “He was just there to see me and catch up.”
Okay, said tag-a-long seemingly had no business being at that meeting. To me, that says Trump forced him on Rubio, but he couldn’t exactly say that out loud. Or, it could be that the UAE President wanted him there. Marco can’t say anything about it either way. Nepotism is a HUGE thing in the Trump family, after all. So if Daddy Trump says someone goes, they do. Look at all Kushner is doing.
Social media critics weren’t satisfied with Rubio’s explanation. “Puh-leese,” groaned Alan Eyre, a former State Department official and distinguished diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute. //// “Trump’s son-in-law just happened to sit next to the Secretary of State at a meeting with the leader of the UAE,” pondered Josh Dorner, a Democratic communications specialist. “And Rubio basically says he was just there to see his brother, who lives there, and to see Rubio (?), which still doesn’t explain why he was at this meeting.” //// “This is ridiculous from @marcorubio,” slammed Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council staffer under President Barack Obama. “He had to catch up with Trump’s son in law DURING a meeting with the president of the UAE?”
We do not actually know what is going on except for a meeting of some sort. There has to be more to this than Rubio’s stuttering. All of the comments are very good points, and there are more comments. Ah. Consulted “the” Google. Has to do with the Iran War and potential peace agreement, the Strait, and regional stability and alliances. Yeaaaaa…the tag-a-long still doesn’t make sense unless they’re considering working on some sort of business deal. That’s a stretch. Rubio actually has a reason for it.
“Casual corruption is a regular part of this Administration and the Republican Doormat Congress has no interest in stopping it,” opined Democratic congressional candidate Fred Wellman. //// “Listen, Marco Rubio has a thousand jobs, so probably the only time he has to catch up with friends is in official meetings ok,” joked journalist Jessica Huseman. //// “Team Trump is just a bottomless pool of corruption,” sneered economist Dean Baker. //// “This no way explains why this non-entity is sitting in an official meeting btw our govt+another nation,” noted author and journalist Bill Carter. If he’s along for the ride to visit his brother he better be paying his way. Ivanks once SAT IN as Trump. No other Admin has treated official US actions like family gatherings.
That is absolutely correct. Official US actions and Trump family gatherings. Marco Rubio is caught in the middle. He’s no better or worse than anyone in or out of the administration. But he *tries*. Most of the sycophants just collect a paycheck and do a bunch of nothing. We can rip on them all day and all night long. Come on, folks, give Mr. Rubio a break. Please.
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