Scarborough: Rubio ‘Flat-Out Lied’
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Joe Scarborough, a Florida guy like Marco Rubio, said he “flat-out lied” about foreclosure when questioned by CNBC’s Becky Quick.
“You’re a Florida guy, I’m a Florida guy,” Scarborough said to Chuck Todd. “I think it was [CNBC host] Becky Quick who went down the list of proven things about Marco’s foreclosures and all of Marco’s economic problems. Talking about lying; Marco said ‘I’m not going to answer those lies they’ve all been discredited.’”
“I think I would have stopped him there,” co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed.
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“Marco just flat-out lied to the American people, there,” he continued. “And I was stunned that the moderators didn’t stop there and go, ‘Wait a second, these are court records. What are you talking about?’”
Here’s what Rubio doesn’t want to talk about:
Rubio co-owns a rental house in Tallahassee with his longtime friend, scandal-plagued former U.S. Rep. David Rivera (R-Fla.). They lived in the house together during legislative sessions while both were serving in the Florida House of Representatives. Foreclosure proceedings were initiated in 2010 after Rubio and Rivera failed to make mortgage payments, an embarrassing turn of events in the midst of Rubio’s U.S. Senate campaign. They averted foreclosure by making the missed payments.
In 2012, Rubio hosted a Washington, D.C. fundraiser for Rivera, even as numerous publications were reporting that he was under state and federal investigation for a variety of possible campaign and financial violations. But the two have been seen together far less often as the 2016 campaign approached. And now they’re trying to sell their house in Tallahassee.
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