{"id":2390715,"date":"2025-01-15T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-face-of-media-sabotage-rubio-loyal-to-america-first\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:45:27","slug":"in-face-of-media-sabotage-rubio-loyal-to-america-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-face-of-media-sabotage-rubio-loyal-to-america-first\/","title":{"rendered":"In Face Of Media Sabotage, Rubio Loyal To America First"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-face-of-media-sabotage-rubio-loyal-to-america-first%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During\u200b his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State, Senator Marco Rubio reaffirmed\u200b his allegiance to\u2064 President Donald Trump&#8217;s America First\u2063 foreign policy despite speculation from\u2064 the media suggesting potential conflicts between\u200c the two.\u200d An article by Politico questioned Rubio&#8217;s\u200b ability to align\u200d wiht Trump,citing their past rivalry in the 2016 presidential primary adn differing foreign policy views.\u2063 Though, Rubio&#8217;s spokesperson emphasized that Rubio is committed\u2063 to implementing Trump&#8217;s ambitious agenda focused on prioritizing American interests. In his opening statement, Rubio outlined\u200d that U.S. foreign policy would center on enhancing national safety, strength, \u2062and prosperity. His plans include countering China&#8217;s\u200d global influence, resolving\u200b ongoing \u2062conflicts, such as those in Russia-Ukraine and Israel-hamas, and addressing domestic issues related to immigration and\u200c drug trafficking. Rubio\u2063 expressed a strong\u2063 commitment to aligning with Trump&#8217;s vision for global U.S.\u200b leadership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick for Secretary of State Sen. Marco Rubio doubled down on his commitment to the America First <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-first-diplomacy-is-over-biden-tells-g-7-summit\/\" title=\"\u2018America First\u2019 Diplomacy Is Over, Biden Tells G-7 Summit\">foreign policy agenda<\/a> during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, despite a corporate media effort to cause a rift between him and the incoming president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/14\/marco-rubio-secretary-of-state-column-00197805\">Politico<\/a> published a piece one day before the hearing attempting to kiss Rubio&rsquo;s role as Secretary of State goodbye before it even begins. <\/p>\n<p>In the gossip column masquerading as an article, Politico&rsquo;s Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Nahal Toosi uses the alleged analysis of a dozen unnamed &ldquo;current and former U.S. and foreign officials&rdquo; to claim that Rubio won&rsquo;t last as Trump&rsquo;s Secretary of State because &ldquo;the odds are high that the two will differ on policy.&rdquo; Toosi also invokes Trump and Rubio&rsquo;s history as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-presidential-candidates-gather-outside-trumps-shadow-in-georgia\/\" title=\"GOP candidates unite in Georgia, away from Trump&#039;s influence.\">presidential primary rivals<\/a> in 2016 as a potential problem for the pair&rsquo;s ability to strategize effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The only way Rubio will survive leading the State Department, the author insists, &ldquo;may be to take the punches from his internal rivals, suffer through whatever insults Trump lobs at him, stick to the lanes that are open, and simply let the State Department fade into irrelevance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While it&rsquo;s true that Rubio and Trump ran against each other and that the former used to take more of an interventionist and neocon approach to foreign policy than he does now, a lot has changed politically and globally in the last decade. <\/p>\n<p>The ongoing transformation of the Republican party from an arm of the establishment to a party of and for the people, paired with the rapid rise of China&rsquo;s hegemony, has pushed Trump and Rubio&rsquo;s visions for the globe much closer together than they were nearly 10 years ago. Both care deeply about projecting U.S. strength&nbsp;to the world while keeping American tax dollars from funding endless wars.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio spokesman Dan Holler told Politico that Rubio is far more focused on executing Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-saudi-spy-chief-offers-brutal-appraisal-of-biden-amid-trip-to-kingdom\/\" title=\"Ex-Saudi Spy Chief Offers Brutal Appraisal Of Biden Amid Trip To Kingdom\">ambitious foreign policy agenda<\/a> that will put Americans first and correct the failures of the past four years&rdquo; than devoting time to corporate media&rsquo;s &ldquo;silly games or gossip.&rdquo; Rubio confirmed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that his new job will center on putting America first.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under President Trump, the top priority of the United States Department of State will be the United States,&rdquo; Rubio said in his opening statement. &ldquo;The direction he has given for the conduct of our foreign policy is clear. Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, every policy we pursue, must be justified by the answer to one of three questions: Does it make America safer? Does it make America stronger? Or does it make America more prosperous?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MARCO RUBIO: Under President Trump, the top priority of the United States Department of State will be the United States. The direction he has given for the conduct of our foreign policy is clear. Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, every policy we pursue, must be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fPayLozf88\">pic.twitter.com\/fPayLozf88<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1879558895242469604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Rubio&rsquo;s agenda is executing Trump&rsquo;s vision to curb China&rsquo;s global influence, end the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars, and address the vast problems exacerbating the U.S. border invasion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In our very own hemisphere, narcoterrorists and dictators, and despots take advantage of open borders to drive mass migration, to traffic in women and children, and to flood our communities with deadly fentanyl and violent criminals,&rdquo; Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bannons_WarRoom\/status\/1879585690427838770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">biggest foreign threat facing<\/a> the U.S. today, he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chinapolicyrsch\/status\/1879588706929295826?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> senators, is the Communist Party of China, &ldquo;the most potent and dangerous, near-peer adversary this nation has ever confronted.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into the global order, and they took advantage of all of its benefits. And they ignored all of its obligations and responsibilities. Instead, they have repressed, and lied, and cheated, and hacked, and stolen their way into global superpower status. And they have done so at our expense and at the expense of the people of their own country,&rdquo; Rubio said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>RUBIO: &#8220;We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into the global order and they took advantage of all of its benefits&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Instead they have repressed, and lied, and cheated, and hacked, and stolen their way into global superpower status.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TvGkoUvJuW\">pic.twitter.com\/TvGkoUvJuW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GLNoronha\/status\/1879554857293746445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When it comes to Eastern Europe, Rubio says he echoes Trump&rsquo;s desire for &ldquo;people to stop dying&rdquo; and for the U.S. to stop funding a conflict with no end in sight &mdash; especially when its own border is compromised.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it should be the official position of the United States that this war should be brought to an end,&rdquo; Rubio said. &ldquo;My differences with the Biden administration throughout this process, is that they never clearly delineated what the end goal of the conflict was &mdash; what exactly were we funding? What exactly were we putting money towards? On many occasions, it sounded like however much it takes, for however long it takes &mdash; that is not a realistic or prudent position.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marco Rubio&#8217;s answer on Ukraine is pitch perfect. First, he makes clear that America&#8217;s border security MUST come first, before any funding goes to far-off battlefields. Second, he affirms President Trump&#8217;s demand that the &#8220;killing must stop&#8221; and calls for an end to the war and an&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WjxhDN8uBh\">pic.twitter.com\/WjxhDN8uBh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1879563390328410167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/15\/us\/politics\/rubio-latin-america-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corporate media outlets<\/a>, anonymous foreign policy officials, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/15\/americas-adversaries-dont-want-marco-rubio-to-be-the-next-secretary-of-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">America&rsquo;s adversaries alike<\/a> are trying to drive a stake between Rubio and the man who named him to be the face of the nation&rsquo;s foreign relations with hopes of hampering their effectiveness. Yet, Politico&rsquo;s own pages admit that Trump and Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2020\/08\/03\/how-marco-rubio-runs-trumps-latin-america-policy-1972792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have successfully worked together to secure their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-seeks-diplomacy-to-constrain-iran-nuclear-program\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden seeks diplomacy to constrain Iran nuclear program\">foreign policy goals<\/a> before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio&rsquo;s public commitment to following through on Trump&rsquo;s promises to secure the homeland and restabilize the globe suggests that, if he is confirmed, productivity is the priority, not pretend personal strife. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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