That posting on Rubio's page was made (Jan 31st) before his reported statement which is widely reported. Rubios comments I posted on various news sources were made after the 2/5/2020 Senate vote not before. Also I have seen with my own eyes/ears at least six Republicans interviewed on various networks saying the same thing. It was wrong, probably worthy of impeachment but not to be removed. Technically he was impreached with strong witness and evidence but not removed.
In this thread maybe 100 posts back, there was some of the quotes by other Republicans also agreeing was improper. As pointed out by legal analysts the their are many potentially criminal issues also involved. Most legal experts agree you do not need a crime to be proven to be worthy of impeachments. At the time of the Constitution, there were no Federal crime laws. And the founder's number one concern (Federalist papers) was foreign influence over elections.
In the comments section (over 200) note one of the comments also refers to a prior statement by Rubio:
Mary Marshall-Dwight
Jan 31
"Mr. Rubio you admit, “Nevertheless, new witnesses that would testify to the truth of the allegations are not needed for my threshold analysis, which already assumed that all the allegations made are true.” “ARE TRUE”
"This is the 2nd attempt of this president having foreign governments interfere. For the American people it would not be so bad if as you mentioned above the senate had remedies to his criminal deeds. Instead you rationalize and give cover to Trump. He has used our government for his own selfish deeds while you sit quiet because you have sold your souls to get what you want. This includes dark money that you accept. We know through evidence that all the top cabinet were involved. So while ordinary people go to jail, pay heavy fines, lives are ruin, and voting rights taken away in Florida unless they pay heavy fees they don’t hve(voter suppression)the elite committ crimes without consequences. No I don’t accept nor agree with your reasoning."
The bottom line is we all have to move on. We have a dishonest President, working against American interests, destroying global relationships with friends and doing the wishes of the likes of Putin and has and will continue to welcome foreign influence to our elections. You certainly can not argue about his thousands of easily proven outright lies and distortions, his proven scams (Trump Univ and his charity), his bankrupcies, no bank in the US will lend him money only Russian affiliated Deutsche Bank with proven ties to Russian money laundering etc etc etc.
The facts need to be shown or we will be stuck with this disgraceful President for another 4 -years because his media scam works for folks that don't follow the facts.
Other facts - his great best-ever economy scam. GDP now slowing to maybe under 2% has been worse under Trump than under the last 3 years of Obama. About 12,000 factory jobs have been lost in the last year. Manufacturing continues in decline other than for automation high tech which needs far fewer workers mostly at far less wages than the old days factory worker. The low unemployment is great but one extensive study showed the average median wage for 44% of workers was only $18.000.
The brief uptick to 3.1% in GDP growth for one-quarter was due to the $1 trillion tax cut almost all for the wealthy that was not paid for. All his foolishness about how tax cuts for the rich would lead to 4-6% growth and pay for the tax cut has been proven to be one of his fantasies.
Yet again this is a useless argument of facts vs "alternative facts" also known as lies.
Hey, this is Canada and you have your own political issues not to worry about US stuck with Trump in the U.S.
