Just hours after failed former president Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts by a jury in Manhattan, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made an absurd comparison between Trump’s conviction and “Castro’s Cuba.”
Rubio’s over-the-top statement got him pilloried on MSNBC this morning, with “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough trashing the Florida Republican.
“Speaking of grotesque, if a guy whose family escaped Castro’s Cuba, communist Cuba, a country that Castro ran with an iron fist, there was no rule of law there. There was just repression. There was tyranny.”
“Marco, like these other people, all because they want to cozy up to Donald Trump and maybe be his vice president, they degrade themselves, and they slander America,” Scarborough continued. “Rubio said in the E. Jean Carroll case, a jury of his peers was a joke because he didn’t like the outcome. now, he is comparing America to Castro’s Cuba, which I will say, yes, it’s meant to kiss up to Donald Trump and shock everybody else. Doesn’t shock me.”
“It hurts me as a patriot to hear people hating on America, but I do know at the end of the day, it’s only going to end up hurting Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, and the Republican party even more, because people don’t buy their propaganda,” he concluded.
MSNBC contributor Katty Kay concurred with Scarborough.
“Yeah. I mean, Marco Rubio of all people knows that this is absurd. The American justice system is not remotely like Cuba’s justice system where there is no system of justice. He knows that, and he is only doing this to suck up to Donald Trump.”
Donald Trump broke the law and is being held accountable for his actions. That’s nothing like Castro’s Cuba or any other repressive regime Trump and his supporters may reference.
A jury of 12 New Yorkers found Donald Trump guilty and proved that no one is above the law in the United States. That’s what makes this country the envy of the world.
