All posts tagged "Marco Rubio"

Kimberly Guilfoyle's alleged cash-for-favors arrangement has Trump world snickering, but not for the reason people would expect, according to a Trump biographer.

Michael Wolff told co-host Joanna Coles on Thursday's episode of "Inside Trump's Head" that insiders are mocking the U.S. ambassador to Greece over how little she allegedly charged.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that businessman and Trump donor Eric Deters said he paid Guilfoyle $300,000 over the years for help with his tax problems and other requests, including getting a song to Kid Rock. According to texts published by The Journal, Deters complained that he had "not received one favor," while Guilfoyle urged him to stop "papering all these things" and to "simply just call me on Signal."...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's three-country tour through Latin America this week backfired despite visiting nations led by Trump-friendly presidents, Politico reported.

According to a Thursday report, Rubio visited Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru over three days. All three countries are governed by right-wing leaders who campaigned on combating crime and partnering closely with Washington, Politico noted. In Colombia, he spoke of a "golden era" between the two countries.

Politico reported that the visit exposed sharp tensions inside the countries, where critics and commentators accused Rubio of pressuring governments to work against their own interests. The friction was clearest over China, a dominant economic force across the region, and the Trump administration's Shield of the Americas military alliance, according to Politico....

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly angry that he can't get rid of a scandal-plagued aide with ties to President Donald Trump's closest aides.

According to a Thursday report by The Daily Mail, Rubio wants to get rid of Gavin Wax, the chief of staff in the State Department's Washington headquarters, but he's been able to stay on because of an "obsessive loyalty" to Trump and a close relationship with White House aides. The Daily Mail reported that Wax's most direct line to Trump is through Natalie Harp, the president's devoted aide.

Wax is in hot water after hosting Serbian right-wing, pro-Kremlin politicians for lunch in an executive dining room despite warnings from career State Department officials not to do so, The Daily Mail reported. Wax saved himself with a "Hail Mary" move, an anonymous source told The Daily Mail....

The office of Secretary of State Marco Rubio is answering for a top aide fired over a video ending in a neo-Nazi symbol.

According to a Monday article by The Daily Mail, Rubio speechwriter Nate Hochman was dismissed from Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) 2023 presidential campaign. Hochman is now a senior aide and works as deputy director of the State Department's policy planning office and as chief speechwriter for Rubio.

Hochman lost the DeSantis job after resharing a video that showed a dejected pro-Trump meme character being cheered by headlines about the governor's immigration and anti-"woke" crackdowns, The Daily Mail reported. The clip closed with the Florida state seal morphing into a Sonnenrad, or black sun, an emblem the Anti-Defamation League considers a neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbol, The Daily Mail reported....

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statement about American citizenship quickly backfired as online critics pointed out how his boss proved him wrong.

In a Wednesday post on X, Rubio slammed what he called "Birth Tourism," which is often brought up in MAGA circles, and pushed President Donald Trump's talking point about immigrants coming to the United States to have babies.

"American citizenship is not for sale," Rubio wrote. "But elaborate birth tourism rings are profiting off the exploitation of America's laws -coaching foreigners to defraud the U.S. visa system, arranging travel and housing, and even forging documents, all to enable foreign nationals to obtain citizenship for their children."...

A new report issued by the State Department lays out an alarming blueprint for criminalizing dissent against the Trump administration through a dubious link to Cuban foreign subversion, critics say.

The July 20 release of the State Department report "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism" comes on the heels of a global gathering of counterterrorism officials in Washington hosted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to enlist U.S. allies in cracking down on a perceived global left-wing terrorism threat.

The Cuba report posits that “a sustained campaign of subversion against the United States” by the beleaguered communist nation through espionage and terrorism is responsible for sustaining and shaping the political left in the United States today, including “antifa” and a host of “leftist nonprofits, anti-ICE collectives, social groups and Marxist militant organizations.”...