Senator Marco Rubio of Florida warmed up the crowd for Sunday night’s Trump campaign rally in part by praising the actions of a caravan of cars and trucks flying Trump 2020 flags that appeared to harass a Biden/Harris bus on a Texas freeway. The incident caused the Biden campaign to cancel the event the bus was heading to, and video of what happened alarmed people across the nation.
Many Republicans, however, don’t seem to have any problem with these particular supporters of their current president.
Not only did Senator Rubio say that he and his fellow Republicans “love” the dangerous actions of the Trump supporter caravan, but he also claimed that the people of Florida do the same kind of thing daily.
“I saw yesterday a video of these people in Texas. Did you see it? All the cars on the road…” Rubio said to the cheering crowd. “We love what they did, but here’s the thing they don’t know: We do that in Florida every day.”
Rubio is far from alone among Republicans expressing approval for the Friday incident. Donald Trump himself predictably praised the supporters who harassed the Biden bus, calling them hot at another rally the next day. He also posted the video of the attack with the comment “I LOVE TEXAS!”
Meanwhile, the Texas Republican party responded to local news asking for their comment on the incident with whataboutism, accusations of “fake news,” and an antisemitic dogwhistle thrown in at the end.
“Three Trump supporters have been executed, one in Portland, one in Denver, and one Milwaukee. A leftist mob attempted to storm the house of the McCloskeys, threatened to burn their house down, rape Mrs. McCloskey, and then kill them both,” claimed party chairman Allen West. “Where is the liberal corporate media’s concern about that real violence? Additionally, none of what your question implies is accurate. It is more fake news and propaganda.”
“Prepare to lose…stop bothering me. Maybe Soros can cut y’all another check in 2022,” West concluded, referring to the common antisemitic dogwhistle that says Jewish billionaire George Soros is funding everything that happens on the left end of the political spectrum.
Perhaps the best comment on Republicans gleefully following Trump’s lead on praising the illegal and dangerous actions taken by the president’s supporters on Friday is pre-President Trump Marco Rubio.
“No matter what happens in this election, for years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large that are gonna be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump, because this is not gonna end well one way or the other,” said 2016 Rubio. “He’s gonna be the nominee and he’s going to lose, or he’ll have thrown this party into its most chaotic and divisive period ever.”
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