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Rubio Rants on Twitter Defending Trump – and in Epic Slip Up Makes Trump Sound Exactly Like Kim Jong-un

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Marco Rubio is a straddler. A flip–flopper. A man who cannot make up his mind and stick to something. In short, he’s an extraordinary hypocrite.

This is the man who tried to win the GOP presidential nomination by waging war on then-candidate Trump. The Florida Republican Senator who swore he would not run for re-election whether or not he won the nomination or even the White House brutally claimed Trump was not well-endowed, (video below) two weeks after claiming he wanted to run a wholesome campaign because he knew his son was watching.

After battling him on the campaign trail, even calling him a “con artist,” Rubio then went on to endorse Trump. And then Marco Rubio broke his promise and went on to run for re-election.

Why?

After building his political career on the backs of LGBT people, using his religion to do all he could to marginalize them and block any civil rights advances, Rubio actually claimed that because LGBT people were slaughtered in Orlando’s Pulse massacre – a terror attack that was the deadliest anti-LGBT hate crime and at the time the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, he was being called to serve Floridians by flip-flopping on his promise to not run for re-election.

(It’s important to note that the Pulse massacre of 49 people happened two years ago today.)

Rubio, by the way, claims to be a devout Roman Catholic, but attends at least two other church denominations that conflict with the Catholic church’s teachings. Could that be for political reasons?

Marco Rubio “is in many ways similar to other Cuban-American politicians from his home state,” as The New York Times reported in 2010. He is a “conservative, Republican and a ‘practicing and devout Roman Catholic,’ in the words of his spokesman, one who ‘regularly attends Catholic Mass’ and ‘was baptized, confirmed and married in the Roman Catholic Church.'”

But while Mr. Rubio, 39, presented himself on his Florida Statehouse Web site and in interviews as a Roman Catholic, bloggers and journalists have noted since his election that he regularly worships at an evangelical megachurch whose theology is plainly at odds with Catholic teaching.

For much of the last decade, Mr. Rubio has attended Christ Fellowship with his wife and children. He “comes very regularly to worship service” at the church’s Palmetto Bay campus, said Eric Geiger, the executive pastor. According to Mr. Rubio’s campaign Web site, he contributed almost $50,000 to Christ Fellowship from 2005 to 2008.

And while no one cares about Senator Rubio’s religion, it’s his consistent hypocrisy of saying one thing but doing another that’s troubling.

Or, in this case, amusing.

Senator Rubio set out Tuesday morning to defend Trump’s disastrous visit with the murderous dictator and despot, Kim Jong-un – by attacking President Barack Obama, his supporters, and the media, of course.

President Obama didn’t praise Raul Castro and say it was an “honor” to meet him. And President Obama held Castro’s feet to the fire over Cuba’ horrific human rights violations. Trump did not.

And neither of the Castro brothers had nuclear weapons, nor did they threaten to annihilate the United States. (The Cuban missile crisis, which was Russia, notwithstanding.)

Rubio continued his Twitter rant.

“Should be skeptical of any deal” with Kim Jong-un, Rubio added on Twitter. “Hope I’m wrong but still believe they will never give up nukes & ICBM’s unless believe failure to do so triggers regime ending reaction.”

After noting he’s “uncomfortable with suspending military exercises,” he claimed that “after Trump bent over backwards to be conciliatory,” if Kim Jong-un “does nothing … sanctions will be easier to enforce & increase.”

But then Rubio entered into a major slip up.

So determined he was to defend Trump, he apparently didn’t realize that his description of Kim Jong-un perfectly mirrors Donald Trump.

Oops.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy: ‘Roads and Bridges Are a Woman’s Problem’ Because They Are ‘Doing the Shopping’

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on Sunday insisted that infrastructure like roads and bridges is a “women’s problem” because they do the “shopping.”

Cassidy made the remarks on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he was arguing on behalf of a bipartisan infrastructure bill.

“If you go home and talk to constituents who are stuck in traffic for an hour and a half getting to work and an hour and a half getting home — three hours a day that they don’t spend with their family — they want a bridge coming to a town near them,” Cassidy explained.

“My wife says that roads and bridges are a woman’s problem if you will,” the senator added. “Because oftentimes it is the woman — aside from commuting to work — who’s also taking children to schools or doing the shopping. And the more time that she spends on that road, the less time she spends doing things of higher value.”

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Trump Claims Abandoning US Allies in Syria Is ‘Strategically Brilliant’ Despite Bipartisan Condemnation Amid Ethnic Cleansing

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President Donald Trump just praised his decision to withdraw U.S. Armed Forces from Northern Syria, opening the door for Turkey to begin ethnic cleansing of America’s now-former allies in the war against ISIS as “strategically brilliant.” U.S. troops have condemned the move, which has destroyed decades of U.S.-international diplomacy and military action, and resuscitated ISIS as a terrorist organization.

Experts have said Trump’s moves over the past week have strengthened Russia enormously.

(Watch the look on the note-taker’s face as Trump speaks.)

 

 

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Presidential Advisor Pierson: Was Lincoln Racist?

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Senior advisor for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, Katrina Pierson, has pushed back on criticism about the low number of Black peoplein the administration by comparing the Trump administration to that of President Lincoln more than 150 years prior. 

The comments came up on “Politics Nation” on MSNBC this Saturday, as host Reverend Al Sharpton attempted to get Pierson and panelist David Brock of Media Matters fo America to name a single black staff member of the President. 

“Historically, Republicans and Democrats have had major figures of the black community in the West Wing as part of their senior staff and administration,” said Sharpton. “Who are the blacks in the West Wing under President Trump?”

Pierson countered, “You mean those who took the job or those who were offered? Because those are two entirely different questions.” 

“Everything has to be made about race, reverend… I’m not going to participate if you’re going to continue to paint this president as racist.” 

Sharpton tried to move away from the discussion to a point, turning to Brock to ask how Trump could really ask for black votes without having black people in the West Wing. 

Pierson jumped in, “there’s plenty of black people in the West Wing.”

“Well, I asked you to name them,” replied Sharpton.

“I’m not going to participate in the attempt to make this all about race,” said Pierson. “It is ridiculous. How many black people were in Abraham Lincoln’s West Wing?”

“Is Abraham Lincoln a racist because he didn’t have a black person in his White House? This is insane. This is an insane discussion,” added Pierson.

“You can’t name a black in the West Wing because we can’t find one, Katrina,” responded Sharpton. “I pity you. I’d sympathize with you, but telling me you applied, and other people? Come on. It’s unthinkable in the 21st century that even a spokesperson for President Trump can’t name a black in the West Wing.”

There was not, technically a “west wing” staff under Abraham Lincoln, That did not start in its modern configuration until the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.

View the exchange below:

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