A ROUNDUP of Marco Rubio’s questionable financial dealings. [archive]
Rubio seems to dismiss many of these fact-based reports as attacks from his political rivals. This has arguably become a go-to campaign tactic for Sen. Rubio, who recently seemed to try to discredit [archive] ICE officer of 13 years and U.S. marine, Chris Crane, as a “conspiracy” theorist after Crane detailed [archive] Rubio’s history of treating law enforcement “like absolute trash.”
Indeed, during last October’s CNBC debate, Becky Quick pressed [archive] Rubio on whether his financial record suggests that he lacks the “maturity” to be President:
Senator Rubio, you, yourself, have said that you’ve had issues. You have a lack of bookkeeping skills. You accidentally intermingled campaign money with your personal money. You faced foreclosure on a second home that you bought. And just last year, you liquidated a $68,000 retirement fund. That’s something that cost you thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties. In terms of all of that, it raises the question whether you have the maturity and the wisdom to lead this $17 trillion economy. What do you think?
Rubio immediately dismissed the substance of Quick’s question.