Rubio tweeted this on the second day of Trump’s impeachment trial.

McConnell wasn’t the only Republican Senator to indicate support for prosecuting Trump.

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1359546398832795649

Rubio’s statement on Trump’s acquittal following “the criminal attack of January 6th”: “let history, and if necessary the courts, judge the events of the past.”
. rubio.senate.gov/rubio-statemen…

Rich Lowry: “Washington power centers” and the US military will prevent Trump from becoming a dictator "I’m not saying [the Trump-as-Dictator] scenario is impossible, just that it requires every Republican in the legislative branch to accept a role akin to obedient eunuchs." 🤔

A couple of thoughts on this from the WSJ editorial board.

1. Institutions are just people. When you say "institutions are strong enough" you're saying that people will stop Trump. Who, exactly? GOP senators wouldn't convict after a literal coup attempt! wsj.com/articles/gop-d…
2. When you're trying to persuade open-minded conservative voters to avoid nominating Trump, you undermine your case when you say Trump can be contained. You're telling them "don't worry, it's not that risky, and if you don't stop him, someone else will."

Remember when you wrote a whole book advocating the prosecution of President Obama under the RICO statute? https://t.co/hlpMoZvW5B

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1691431356448845824

.@benshapiro: "America has seen criminal administrations before... Presidents, too, have deserved jail time."

predictit.org/markets/detail…

Giuliani testifies about “the efforts you have to make to try to keep people from Camden, New Jersey, from coming into Philadelphia to vote”

also claims when he was mayor he successfully blocked more than half of “busloads” of voters paid to vote 8-10 times in NYC elections 😵‍💫 Raskin to Giuliani: “So you’re saying we should not rely on the federal or state courts, we should rely on the movies?”

Resign @RepRalphNorman, traitor

https://twitter.com/tpm_dk/status/1602433829423169537

This might be the worst thing I’ve seen from a congressional Republican related to the 2020 election:

A private message to the White House Chief of Staff calling for a military dictatorship three days before Biden is sworn in.

@SpeakerPelosi needs to take action.

I wonder if National Review will take an editorial stance on imprisoning public health officials or if they’ll do that “yes” “no” “maybe” thing It's not just a theoretical question. Ron DeSantis, who NR favors for the GOP nomination, sent a fundraising letter a year ago with the subject "Fauci for Prison."

My latest for @BulwarkOnline: "What's The Downside For Humoring Her?"
thebulwark.com/whats-the-down… @BulwarkOnline "The Bulwark reached out to three of Lake’s endorsers with national ambition—Florida’s Ron DeSantis, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem, and Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin—with a simple question: 'Do you support Kari Lake’s refusal to concede defeat in her race for Arizona governor?'"

Idea that Republicans get “zero credit” for condemning bigotry and that “the only winning move is not to play” seems provably false.
nationalreview.com/corner/jonatha… Of the top of my head I can think of George HW Bush rejecting David Duke, McCain defending Obama from a racist rally attendee, and George W Bush condemning anti-Muslim hate after 9/11.

Aside from being the right things to do, they were also good politics.

It's interesting how a conflict between Apple and Twitter's revenue models became a culture war issue.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1597771428992090112

Apple charges a 30% fee on in-app purchases, which it requires for apps when they offer a "digital service" (for instance, a service like Twitter Blue that gives your posts priority). observer.com/2022/10/apple-…

My latest for ⁦@BulwarkOnline:⁩ Was It Really All Just Trump’s Fault? thebulwark.com/was-it-really-… “Who gets the blame for picking a weird Ron Paul acolyte to take on a popular astronaut? Do you put that all on Trump?”

If you had to ask me one thing I like about Ron DeSantis, it's that his spokesman will tell it like it is about January 6th. Also a fan of banning Nazis and conspiracy nuts from Twitter, love it.

DeSantis ripped off Paul Harvey's "So God Made a Farmer"--an ode to the humble American laborer--and made it into a narcissistic sizzle reel.

"On the 8th day God created...ME!" Here's the Paul Harvey version.
americanrhetoric.com/speeches/paulh…

Marco Rubio has been compromised by the Proud Boys and you shouldn’t trust a word he says, particularly on this subject

https://twitter.com/nicknehamas/status/1585427731260792833

Back in 2018, Nancy Pelosi went to Miami and was mobbed by Proud Boys "leading the chairman of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party to issue an apology."

At the time, Rubio compared the Proud Boys to Castro's "repudiation mobs."
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2018/1…

Marco Rubio, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has a Charlottesville “Unite the Right” marcher working for his re-election campaign. Seems like it should be a bigger story.

https://twitter.com/marcacaputo/status/1584646948060942336

Exactly how compromised by Proud Boys is Senator Marco Rubio?

https://twitter.com/joshceb/status/1584630074967719936

Mike Lee dishonestly says he was merely doing research into “rumors” of “alternate” (fake) electors when in fact he was plotting with Mark Meadows how state legislatures could overturn Biden’s win two days before the Capitol was violently overrun.

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1582165541124734976

Just try and reconcile his January 4th text to Mark Meadows with how he described his role to Utah voters on television. It’s an utter lie.

Longtime writer for far-right American Greatness: "I intend to vote Democrats straight down the line—not because I want to become a convert but because I believe it is in the national interest to submit this current form of the GOP to a political mercy-killing." "The revisionist histories of the GOP enforce the inaccurate assertion that America is not a democracy but a republic; we are both, and the Framers instituted a complex form of majority rule to potentially safeguard against a tyranny of the majority."

"The storming of the Capitol was another sensitive topic for senior management [at the Heritage Foundation]. Coffey recalls being required by management to remove a Twitter post condemning the January 6 Capitol riots."
thedispatch.com/p/partisanship… hey @KevinRobertsTX, under previous leadership Heritage posted that Americans “should categorically and consistently reject” violent groups like the Oath Keepers.

Is that still your view?
heritage.org/civil-society/…

Why didn't you publish the documents you obtained?

https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1558146876100296704

Yesterday, the US government moved to unseal the warrant with only the names of the FBI agents redacted.

Meanwhile, the former president's team is leaking the unredacted documents to Breitbart, which is actively highlighting the names of the agents.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

It gets harder to say your criticism of George Soros isn’t infected by anti-Semitism when your movement is celebrating and rallying behind Viktor Orban. Yes, Orban has attacked Soros time and again in flagrantly anti-Semitic terms.

https://twitter.com/urbanachievr/status/1528775764610629634