Posted on 02/09/2022 7:43:20 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) referred to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a "violent riot" a day after his party's leader called the episode a "violent insurrection."
Rubio, in an interview with NewsNation this week, suggested he disagrees with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) characterization of the Jan. 6 attack, saying "riot" is a more accurate descriptor for the event than "insurrection."
"There was no way they were going to overthrow the government," Rubio said of the hundreds of people that descended on the Capitol, some breaching the building and assaulting police officers as lawmakers, aides and journalists cowered inside. "It's just not. It wasn't going to happen. They were able to delay by a few hours, the vote count but there was absolutely no way did we ever come close in any way shape or form to those people leading to the overthrow of the government of the United States of America."
Rubio added that it is "important" for people to "characterize this as it was."
"It was a riot. It was a dangerous riot. It was a violent one. It should have never happened and it should never happen again," he said. "But I also do not think people should be misled to think this somehow was on the verge of overthrowing the government or preventing the certification [of the election]."
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But the violence was all on the side of the government and the Deep State.
It is long past time these old fossils go into the dark night.
And January 20, 2017 was?
But the government may as well handed the rioters cookies and hot coco they were so forgiving.
It was a mass trespass event with a handful of people causing destruction. Many people were invited in others got caught up in the hoopla of an event such as this and it was instigated by some bad actors. It was not a riot, it was not an insurrection. It was a large crowd that was mismanaged due to Pelosi intentionally not properly manning the area wit LEO and Guard.
Who KILLED somebody for NO REASON? (And got away with it!)
Didn’t Rubio rubber stamp the Senate Intelligence report into Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election?
We can always count on McConnell to faithfully speak exactly what his wife’s communist Chinese overlords dictate.
I live in Florida. If Rubio is primaried, I will vote against him. And if he is a Senatorial candidate, I will leave his line blank, vote third party, whatever.
Under no circumstances will I vote for him.
A dangerous riot in which Capitol Hill cops likely killed four ‘rioters’, and suffered no serious injuries to themselves.
These lickspittles are gonna pay for their quisling surrenders come November of this year and again two years later. We aren’t going to forget.
Rubio has always been a fraud. He ran against amnesty, then he works with Schumer on amnesty. I received a text a month ago from Don Jr asking me to donate to Rubio.
GREAT! An d we will get a DAMN DEMOCRAT thanks to your little unstrategic brain.
VOTE AGAINST HIM IN A PRIMARY, THEN GROW UP CAUSE THE DAMN DEMOCRAT WILL BE FAR FAR WORSE, AND WE MIGHT NOT TAKE THE SENATE BACK!
HONESTLY, I am SHOCKED by some FREEPERS small thinking!
The RINOs are coming out of the cave over January 6th....Rubio, Graham, the Turtle, Mittens.
Re-electing Amnesty Senators is just retarded.
the crowd reacted violently when they were met with violence... see that’s easy to say... like Jan 6 was an insurrection... release all the tapes.
Hey, Marco, what riot have you ever heard of that ISN’T violent? Isn’t that a key part of the definition of a “riot” - that there’s violence? Otherwise, a gathering of a large group of people is called a “demonstration” or a “protest” or a “ballgame.”
Floridians, you can do better than this guy. Please do so the next time he runs.
I agree it should not have happened, (Little) Marco, and it wouldn't have if the crowd of peaceful protestors had not been infiltrated by Federal agents provocateur.
The RINOs are coming out of the cave over January 6th....Rubio, Graham, the Turtle, Mittens.
Yes.
We MUST STOP re-electing Mitch’s bitches.
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