President Donald Trump bears “some responsibility” for the deadly Capitol siege, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., asserted Sunday.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rubio said Trump and Republicans have indulged fringe groups that were involved in the breach of the building.
“The president does bear some responsibility here that needs to be looked at,” Rubio said.
“We have for too long indulged some of the groups. These are not conservatives. These are wackos.”
Rubio decried the groups that reportedly were represented: QAnon, which Rubio called “this ridiculous conspiracy,” along with white supremacists like Proud Boys.
“It’s important to point out, this is why we have to watch what we say and allow into the movement,” he said. “They may be incited to do things by words that maybe you didn't intend to be read that way, but they did.
"It matters what they thought you meant and when you go down [and say] ‘I will march with you,’ 1% or half of 1% read it differently, it could be dangerous.”
He said the lesson has to be learned — and Trump's impeachment won’t help.
“We hit rock bottom,” he said. “If that did not cause us to wake up, [to] look what we are turning into, I don't know what will. Instead of saying that to everybody, what's going to be the notion [is] ‘let's keep fighting this Trump stuff, let's have an impeachment for someone who is not in office anymore.’”
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