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Trump ally shames himself in desperate bid as MAGA heir: report
Rubio’s Performance Is the PointThe SetupThe reporting here is simple enough: Marco Rubio is using a White House UFC rollout to audition for a post-Trump future, even as the office he holds sits inside a foreign-policy collapse of his own making. The hook is not the spectacle itself. It is the willingness of a senior official to spend political capital on cosplay while the machinery under him keeps producing damage.The Power He Actually HoldsRubio is not some ornamental bystander. He is the secretary of state, and, as the source notes, he also served as acting administrator of USAID. That…
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