Liar’s Poker

Poor Marco Rubio has to keep pretending he was wrong about Trump.

7 September 2022∙ Paid

1. Lyin’ Marco

I remember when I thought Marco Rubio was the future of conservatism:

Let me save you the click:

“Donald Trump is a con-artist.”
Question: What would a Trump government look like? “It would be chaos.”
“We’re about to turn over . . . the nuclear codes to an erratic individual.”
“I would prefer not to get into a fight with other Republicans, but I would much more prefer not to turn over the party to a con artist like Donald Trump.”

You remember that, I’m sure.

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