Just needling the press

This is disgustingly flippant and cynical.

Marco Rubio blows off Trump’s “Chye-nah should investigate Biden” as trolling:

This morning in the Florida Keys, @marcorubio was asked about the President calling on China to investigate @JoeBiden – see his answer↓

His answer:

I don’t know if that’s a real request or him just needling the press knowing that you guys were going to get outraged by it. He’s pretty good at getting everybody fired up, and he’s been doing that for awhile, and the media responded right on task.

A reporter repeated the question.

I don’t think that’s a real request. I think he did it to gig you guys. I think he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. Like I said, he plays it like a violin and everybody falls right into it. That’s not a real request.

It’s the other way around. He pretends to be just needling, just gigging, just provoking, but it’s for real. There’s no way Marco Rubio doesn’t know that.

Can we drain that swamp?

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