Or what about immigration advisers Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, who were beside themselves with excitement over the opportunity to carry out mass removals of millions via the most draconian, punitive means available? All these worthies have made an aggressive bid for Trump’s most craven enabler.
Abducted Ukrainian children. As we’ve reported, the State Department recently terminated a contract funding a program devoted to locating and identifying Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. Rubio, to my knowledge, has not commented on this decision. But he owns it from top to bottom.
But the evidence and data underlying those conclusions must still be transferred to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement arm, to facilitate the continued tracking—and potential return—of these kids. Termination of the contract disrupted that transfer.
Given that this data still exists, why won’t the State Department allow the contract to continue so its transfer to our European allies can proceed? Rubio—who has the authority to make this happen—won’t say. Ukraine wants the return of kidnapped children to be part of any peace talks over the Russia-Ukraine war, and that’s now harder to accomplish.
Lawless deportations. Rubio is also key to Trump’s deportations of scores of Venezuelans to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. While the Department of Homeland Security carried out the operation, Rubio negotiated the deal with El Salvador’s authoritarian president, Nayeb Bukele, that made it possible.
Gallingly, the U.S. government is paying El Salvador $6 million to imprison these deportees, something Rubio helped negotiate. Yet not only were these men plainly denied basic due process; they were sent to a Salvadoran prison whose reputation for cruelty has raised alarms among human rights advocates, a place where people untraceably disappear for years.
Rubio has thus given his own seal of approval to—and has had a central role in executing—potentially serious human rights violations on Trump’s part.
Khalil, a pro-Palestinian Columbia student and green card holder, and Suri, a scholar at Georgetown here on a student visa, are both married to U.S. citizens. But both are set to be deported by the Department of Homeland Security.
But in both cases, the administration has been grotesquely underhanded about its grounds for concluding this. In Khalil’s case, the administration has claimed pro-Hamas propaganda was circulated at a protest he’d organized, but has not provided evidence to back this up.
Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, tells me Rubio’s office has not supplied its written determination explaining the decision or evidence backing up the assertions behind it. “They’ve given us nothing,” Ahmad told me. “Not a shred of evidence.”
Let’s stress that even if we ultimately learn bad things about these defendants, this already constitutes a serious affront to the rule of law. Here Rubio is a fully complicit agent in Trump’s escalating assaults on it.
Recall that when Musk began this assault, Rubio personally vowed that critical life-saving humanitarian programs would be preserved. That turned out to be flatly false as many such programs actually were sabotaged by Musk’s cuts.
It’s hard to overstate how depraved this is. First, it’s unclear Rubio has the authority to shut down virtually all of this congressionally created agency’s programs. Second, the idea that this serves our national interests represents a wholesale abandonment of principles Rubio had long espoused: that such programs provide major soft-power benefits and do so at a tiny percentage of our budget, making them more than worth the cost. Now he’s actively propping up Musk’s degenerate propaganda about them.
Taken all together, these examples represent an extraordinary and comprehensive selling-out of principles Rubio once professed to stand for.
A charitable interpretation of Rubio’s moves is that he’s trying to slake the Trump-Musk thirst for horrors in minimal ways while maneuvering to bring about decent outcomes in spite of it. For instance, Rubio appears to genuinely believe that the only potential resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war is a negotiated settlement. Perhaps he’ll help bring one about that doesn’t treacherously sell out Ukraine despite his apologetics for Trump’s abandonment of our ally.
Trump’s efforts to dismantle the rule of law, his deliberate betrayal of our alliances, his destruction of American soft power, and his seeming attempt to realign the United States with Russia by helping it paper over its potential war crimes—as of right now, Rubio has an active hand in all of it.
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