Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee, arrived in front of many of his former U.S. Senate colleagues on Capitol Hill Wednesday, ready to make his case for why he is best prepared to represent America on the world stage. But before he gets on his first flight, Rubio will need to pass through a panoply of protestors, one of whom was mocked by Rubio after being dragged out of the hearing room.
The mild-mannered former Florida senator was in the middle of delivering his opening remarks when he was interrupted by a Spanish-shouting female protestor. “Radical jihadists openly march in the streets and sadly drive vehicles into our people,” he began, referencing the deadly New Orleans attack by an ISIS-inspired military veteran on New Year’s Day. America, he said, has for too long “prioritized the global national order over our own national interests,” a line that didn’t sit well with a restless woman in the back. “Attención!” she cried, claiming “children were being killed in Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela.” Rubio paused while security at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee dragged the protestor from the room,…
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