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BumRushDaShow

(142,982 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 04:11 AM Nov 12

Trump expected to select Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state: Sources

Source: ABC News

November 11, 2024, 8:57 PM


President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce his intention to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for secretary of state, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Rubio, 53, has served in the Senate since 2011. He is currently the vice-chair of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Intelligence and also sits on the chamber's Committee on Foreign Relations.

Several long-serving State Department officials tell ABC News they respect Rubio's extensive foreign policy experience and view him as unlikely to overly politicize the secretary of state role.

Rubio was also said to be favored for the role by Trump's chief of staff and veteran Florida political operative Susie Wiles, potentially helping the lawmaker edge out loyalists from the first Trump administration like former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and former National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-select-sen-marco-rubio-secretary-state-sources/story?id=115728323

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pfitz59

(10,908 posts)
1. Little Trump licking Marco
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 04:21 AM
Nov 12

His kowtowing to Trump after being insulted in the debate will not go unnoticed. I doubt he'll have much clout with foreign leaders.

Journeyman

(15,150 posts)
2. Let's hope the State Dept. officials are correct. What bothers me is a one word description of Rubio . . .
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 04:27 AM
Nov 12

Malleable.

Donald Trump will mold "Little Marco" into whatever shape he desires. Rubio may be disinclined to "overly politicize" the State Department, but that certainly doesn't account for Donald Trump's whims. Like Cartman, Trump's out of control and he does what he wants.

muriel_volestrangler

(102,563 posts)
3. He seems a lightweight to me, and I'm surprised to seem "extensive foreign policy experience" mentioned
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 04:42 AM
Nov 12

He doesn't ever seem to have come up in news about the world outside the US. But Grenell is a nutter, so that would be one thing in Rubio's favour.

highplainsdem

(52,546 posts)
5. Or Lara Trump will be appointed senator & then Rubio will be kicked aside & replaced with a loyalist.
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 08:18 AM
Nov 12

That's what Ron Filipkowski and Aaron Rupar think could happen.


GreenWave

(9,263 posts)
6. So the fake Cuban refugee gets a big job.
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 08:30 AM
Nov 12

fake because his family arrived way before Castro yet he pretended and got the Cubans to vote for him.

moniss

(5,928 posts)
12. It gets more ridiculous as they go and
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 01:24 PM
Nov 12

it wouldn't surprise me if somewhere in Florida a delusional dictator is screaming I want this Captain Peachfuzz guy for Joint Chiefs!!!!

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