Rubio Waits Until After Capitol Attack to Speak Up

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Friday in a video that the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol were “lied to by politicians who were telling them that the vice president had the power to change the election results,” the Miami Herald reports.

“But in the days before the attack that appalled the world and resulted in five deaths, Rubio made no public effort to counter what he now calls a lie pushed by politicians he didn’t name. Nor would he talk when asked this week about a last-ditch attempt by his fellow Senate Republicans to overturn the election by blocking President-elect Joe Biden’s formal certification, though he later voted against it.”

“And he said nothing when, hours before the riot, President Trump tweeted as riled-up caravans of his supporters headed to Washington that ‘if Vice President Mike Pence comes through for us, we will win the presidency.'”