{"id":1428,"date":"2017-06-08T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/tbt-rubio-defended-comey\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:03:00","slug":"tbt-rubio-defended-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tbt-rubio-defended-comey\/","title":{"rendered":"#TBT: RUBIO DEFENDED COMEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)\"><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{margin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#0563C1;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{mso-style-priority:99;\n\tcolor:#954F72;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;}\nspan.EmailStyle17\n\t{mso-style-type:personal-compose;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\n\tcolor:windowtext;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:shapedefaults v:ext=\"edit\" spidmax=\"1026\" \/>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:shapelayout v:ext=\"edit\">\n<o:idmap v:ext=\"edit\" data=\"1\" \/>\n<\/o:shapelayout><\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span cambria=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">As Republicans attempt to demonize former FBI Director Comey, it&rsquo;s worth remembering that Senator Rubio <\/span><\/b><span cambria=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/11\/marco-rubio-james-comey-fbi-230873\"><b>stood up for<\/b><\/a><b> him in the wake of his revelations in the Clinton email investigation last fall. The Trump Administration laughably used the excuse that the reason behind Comey&rsquo;s firing was his mishandling of that same investigation.<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span cambria=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left:.5in\"><span cambria=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/11\/marco-rubio-james-comey-fbi-230873\">Senator Rubio<\/a>: &ldquo;Comey did not do anything inappropriate, and it&rsquo;s amazing that all of these people were lifting him up as a hero two or three or four months ago, and now he&rsquo;s a villain because they don&rsquo;t like what he did.&rdquo; <\/span><span cambria=\"\" style=\"font-family:\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As Republicans attempt to demonize former FBI Director Comey, it&rsquo;s worth remembering that Senator Rubio stood up for him in the wake of his revelations in the Clinton email investigation last fall. The Trump Administration laughably used the excuse that the reason behind Comey&rsquo;s firing was his mishandling of that same investigation. &nbsp; Senator <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#TBT: RUBIO DEFENDED COMEY - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tbt-rubio-defended-comey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-08T15:03:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tbt-rubio-defended-comey\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tbt-rubio-defended-comey\/\",\"name\":\"#TBT: RUBIO DEFENDED COMEY - 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