Media critic Marco Rubio snaps at Jake Tapper framing of Donald Trump ‘spectacle’
Marco Rubio will make history when the Senate confirms him as Secretary of State. Image via AP.

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Senator blasted CNN reporter and the media writ large during a Fox News hit.

A U.S. Senator and a CNN journalist don’t see eye to eye on Tuesday’s “spectacle” involving former President Donald Trump.

After Trump’s court appearance in Miami, the former President was at the Versailles restaurant, when reporter Jake Tapper tapped out on the laudatory footage of the man who just pleaded not guilty to 37 counts.

“The folks in the control room, I don’t need to see any more of that. He’s trying to turn it into a spectacle, into a campaign ad. That’s enough of that, we’ve seen it already,” he said. “Let’s go over, again, the 37 charges that Donald Trump is facing.”

On Fox News Tuesday evening, Marco Rubio took issue with Tapper’s irritation by saying what he thought the real spectacle was.

“I agree with Jake Tapper, this is a spectacle,” Rubio said. “But the spectacle wasn’t Trump going to Versailles in Little Havana. The spectacle is this prosecution. This prosecution was a choice.”

The Senator invoked the principle of “prosecutorial discretion,” saying “the federal government uses it all the time.

“And they had a choice to make and they should have looked at this and said there is no victim here. There’s no harm that’s been caused. Even if everything they allege is true, which we don’t know if it is. But even if everything they allege is true, there’s no harm to the country,” Rubio contended.

Rubio wasn’t finished ripping reporters, however.

“It’s a damaging day and all these people on TV, these media, they’re going to rue the day that this happened because it’s going to be bad for our country. They could be presiding over the destruction of the greatest nation in the history of the world and the people that are making these choices are responsible for it.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


9 comments

  • Chas

    June 13, 2023 at 10:27 pm

    Marco doesn’t know right from wrong. Not surprising.

  • Terri

    June 14, 2023 at 12:07 am

    He’s totally right that it is bad for our country but we are airing out dirty laundry in plain site. We need to see in our faces that we don’t need someone like that as President. Why are the American people lowering their standards! The American people need something more than lies and the bull rap that has been going on! We need new blood that is in the middle of the aisle! Stop all the Extremist! We need to clean the aisles of government corruption!

    • Dont Say FLA

      June 14, 2023 at 7:36 am

      No recording devices were allowed in court, and The Trump announced their own indictments. Si the “in plain sight” thing, that is purely on Trump, and it’s all about the money “They’re after me! Which means they’re after you! Send me your money! So, uhh, they don’t, you know, get you!”

  • SteveHC

    June 14, 2023 at 5:22 am

    Interesting that Rubio’s decided that he’s to be no better than Trump.

    • Dont Say FLA

      June 14, 2023 at 7:36 am

      Was it a decision or a realization, though?

  • Suze

    June 14, 2023 at 8:09 am

    No harm to the country?!!!! Wtf little Marco. Another treasonous GOP How can he say our national security intelligence agencies and agents haven’t been compromised. This is insane

  • John McManus

    June 14, 2023 at 8:22 am

    How did this guy come to represent our state? A former pre#ident knowingly takes top secret information belonging to our government, then repeatedly lies about continuing to hold them. He hides them, and tries to co-opt his own lawyers to lie for him. Trump is as bad as they come, and for a lightweight like Rubio to try to portray this a political witch hunt?

  • John Lentini

    June 14, 2023 at 9:46 am

    Little Marco has no idea whether Trump sold copies to a foreign adversary or to the Saudis. Why did they pay Jared 2 billion?

  • WGD

    June 14, 2023 at 10:14 am

    Trying to blame the media for all of Trump’s misdeeds is the desperate attempt by stupid people like Rubio to deny their own blame. Rubio and other Republicans had their chances to disown Trump and didn’t do it. Its their fault.

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