A longtime newspaper columnist had some scathing things to say about Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and claimed he might be "the worst of the lot" serving under President Donald Trump.
Jennifer Rubin sat down with the New Republic's Greg Sargent who is, like her, a former Washington Post columnist, to discuss the internal dynamics within Trump's cabinet after National Security Adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently invited a reporter into a group chat where high-ranking officials, including Rubio, discussed top-secret military plans on an unsecured third-party app.
"I think he’s the worst of the lot," Rubin said of Rubio. "The rest of them are so stupid and so ignorant that they really don’t get it; they’re just playing a game or they’re following Trump or they’re trying to be with the cool kids. Rubio knows better. First of all, he was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. If anyone should know about preserving security, it’s he — and he was on that same Signal chain."
Rubio has abandoned many of the principles he publicly stated during his Senate career, and Rubin found his transformation disgusting.
"He also has spent his entire life fighting communism, fighting oppression, fighting Cuba," she said. "You know what they do in Cuba? They disappear people and they throw them into a hellhole of a jail. He has become the very thing that he has spent his entire career railing against. He used to be a great defender of Ukraine; now he’s instrumental in turning it over to Russia. So the glaring hypocrisy, the soullessness, the willingness to sell down the river all of the dissidents, all of the freedoms, all of the besieged countries that he once defended is really beyond the pale."
"I find him completely revolting," she added.
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Although Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed crucial information about a bombing raid in Yemen that could have been hacked and exploited to endanger the lives of U.S. service members, Rubin spared him from the excoriation she inflicted on Rubio.
"I don’t expect much more from Pete Hegseth," she said. "He’s not bright. I don’t expect more from a Tulsi Gabbard who is totally incompetent and unaware of what she is doing. Marco Rubio, however, knows better. And you can see that he knows better. Remember when he was slinking into the upholstery in the Oval Office during the Zelenskiy visit? He knows enough to be embarrassed. He just doesn’t have the spine to do something, to say something, or — for God’s sake — quit."