Following the US attack on Venezuela and the capture of the country’s president Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has taken on a leading role in the effort to sell the American people on the notion that this was a “law enforcement operation” and not about oil.

The former GOP senator, who also serves as National Security Advisor, is a bit of an oddity in Donald Trump’s cabinet in general and the national security team in particular. That’s because, in contrast to the president himself, Vice President JD Vance, or former Fox News talk show host Pete Hegseth, he isn’t totally unqualified for his job.

During his time in Congress, Rubio served on the Foreign Relations Committee, including as the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues. He also chaired the Intelligence Committee, where he worked on a report showing how Russia intervened in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf.

Therefore, it was hardly surprising that the administration wheeled Rubio out in front of the cameras on the Sunday talk shows instead of having Hegseth babble on and on about “warriors.”

It was a tall order for the former senator because Trump keeps blurting the quiet part out loud, but he nevertheless tried to assure the American people that the attack was for their benefit (and not that of oil companies), and that the US would not get bogged down in another foreign quagmire after effecting regime change abroad, i.e., after doing all of the things the president once said he wouldn’t do.

Since Rubio has some credibility, we thought that we would look into some of the current and past statements he made about Venezuela and Maduro in particular.

And let us tell, you, the president sounds like a bad dude.

First of all, as Rubio has pointed out repeatedly, as an incumbent, he lost the presidential election but then refused to leave office. That’s simply unacceptable and somebody who does that should certainly be held to account.

Calling him “the guy who claimed to be the president of the country that he was not,” the secretary of state also pointed that this individual was indicted in a US court.

Indicted! That’s serious business, as Rubio explained last year.

“[The president was] indicted by a grand jury in [New York],” he said at the time. “That means that [New York prosecutors] presented the evidence to a grand jury, and a grand jury indicted him.”

Rubio added that a superseding indictment was unsealed later “that specifically detailed [the president’s] actions,” and he urged Americans to read that document. We agree. They should!

Clearly being indicted in one jurisdiction in the US (or multiple, whatever) is some serious stuff.

Furthermore, Rubio pointed out that the government of this indicted president who claimed to have won an election that he lost wasn’t serving the needs of his country’s people. Instead, his policies only benefited a few wealthy individuals at the top, which the secretary of state said was not acceptable.

Instead, he argued on ABC’s This Week that the country’s wealth should go “to the people, not a handful of corrupt individuals.”

We couldn’t agree more.

Finally, Rubio made it clear on NBC’s Meet the Press that the president “made a career out of not keeping deals and figuring out how to save himself by buying time.”

In summation, we agree with Rubio that this president sounds like a total loser that no country should be burdened with.

At press time, it was unclear whether Maduro had been friends with any sex traffickers and then tried to prevent the disclosure of documents related to their crimes, admitted to sexually assaulting women, falsified business documents, or kept classified files in his bathroom.