A Democratic senator bashed former colleague Marco Rubio, who's now Donald Trump's secretary of state, for acting like he'd had portions of his brain removed.
Sen. Chis Van Hollen (D-MD), who served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with Rubio, lambasted the nation's top diplomat for defending Trump and vice president J.D. Vance for attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a tense Oval Office meeting.
"What we're watching, in my view, is a big realignment," Van Hollen told CNN. "You have president Trump, who no longer believes that the United States is the leader when it comes to defending and promoting freedom and the rule of law and democracy. however imperfectly we've we've done that. He is discarding that whole paradigm. He sees himself more like Putin or Xi as this, like, strongman who is going to, you know, abandon our friends whenever he thinks it's in his personal interests. In my view, that's not America first. That is America in retreat."
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Van Hollen voted to confirm Rubio as secretary of state but says he's come to regret that decision.
"I regret that vote because, you know, when it was Sen. Rubio, Sen. Rubio was somebody who understood that Putin was the aggressor and the Russians were the aggressor," Van Hollen said. "He didn't go around calling Zelensky a dictator, but it seems like he's had a, you know, a total lobotomy or heart transplant. I don't know what it is. But first of all, he allowed Elon Musk essentially to take over the operations of the State Department. We saw how they're trying to dismantle USAID – that was an Elon Musk initiative, and now he is just parroting Donald Trump. Now, if that's why he took on the job, just to do the 'dear leader' thing with Donald Trump, then I'm extremely disappointed. But that seems to be the direction that he's headed."
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