Doral, Florida - Following his decisive victory in both the Electoral College and in the national popular vote, as well as helping Republicans to win a majority in the Senate and keep their majority in the House, President-Elect Trump has been nominating his new Cabinet. One of his early appointments is Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for Secretary of State.

During the presidential campaign of 2015-16, Trump and Rubio were bitter rivals. This rivalry culminated in March 2016 when Trump decisively defeated Rubio in the Florida primary election. Nevertheless, in the eight years since, Rubio has come to be considered a close ally by the Trump clan.

Rubio was a finalist in the contest to nominate a Vice President, which went to Senator J.D. Vance. Commentator Bill O’Reilly was a strong supporter of Rubio for Vice President. O’Reilley considered that getting a big chunk of the Hispanic vote would be essential for Trump’s victory, and that Rubio on the ticket would be needed to do that. In any event, Trump did not need Rubio on the ticket to win almost half of the Hispanic vote. Actually, Trump is probably more popular than Rubio with Hispanics.

Senator Rubio has had a meteoric political career. He is a graduate of the University of Miami Law School, and was elected State Representative for West Miami. In the state legislature, he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives by his class of legislators. Then, during the Tea Party revolt of 2010, he courageously challenged RINO Governor Crist for the United States Senate and won.

Rubio actively joined the Trump campaign this year. For example, the 53-year old bilingual son of Cuban immigrants campaigned in the growing Hispanic community of Reading, Pennsylvania, helping Trump to win the Keystone State. He was also in the spin room for the Trump-Harris presidential debate in Philadelphia during September. Rubio discreetly offered himself for service in the Trump 2.0 administration.

By nominating Rubio, Trump also pays back one of his new loyal constituencies, Hispanics, and add to the Floridians on his cabinet. In his statement accepting the nomination, Rubio emphasized pursuing peace through strength and America first, and acknowledged that he would be serving under the leadership of President Trump. He has the opportunity to become one of the most consequential Secretaries of State of the United States.

Rubio’s RINO Precedents

Rubio is now a key part of the MAGA movement, but during his career in the Senate, he has taken several RINO positions, as follows:

1. Everyone remembers the Gang of Eight, back during the second Obama administration, when Rubio joined with Senators McCain and Schumer to propose an amnesty bill for illegal aliens. This bill included an immense expansion of the “green card” program for granting lawful residence to illegal immigrants.

2. Rubio’s early Senate career also included failures to defend gun rights, such as when he introduced legislation to ban guns from anyone investigated for domestic terrorism, even before conviction. He also showed leniency with respect to ObamaCare, and pushed for cap-and-trade environmental legislation. He picked up a reputation among conservatives for being squishy.

3. Rubio has been accused of tolerating the repeated political censorship and biased moderation by Big Tech against conservative commentators. To his credit, however, during the Biden-Harris administration, he introduced legislation to halt this censorship, defend free speech and remove unfair protection in current law. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he is privy to non-public information, but he has been criticized for not acting more effectively.

4. Rubio claims that reducing federal spending is one of his top priorities, but he continues to vote for higher spending through omnibus bills and continuing resolutions. However, he voted against the two giant spending bills passed by Congress in its first two years of the Biden-Harris administration.

5. Rubio failed to stand against the fraud in the presidential election of 2020, to urge Vice President Pence to challenge the electors as was done by Vice President Jefferson after the presidential election of 1800, or to condemn the false-flag operation conducted by the administrative state in Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 to cover up a stolen election.

6. Last year he combined with Senator Kaine (D-Va) to pass a bill in the Senate to prevent any President from unilaterally leaving NATO.

Nevertheless, Rubio supports Trump’s MAGA positions on foreign policy, especially with respect to China, Russia and Iran. He has also spoken out forcefully against the political warfare waged by Democrat prosecutors against Trump, including the case brought by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, in connection with the accounting treatment of legal expenses for a non-disclosure agreement.

Trump’s Assignment for Rubio

Others considered for the post of Secretary of State included: (1) Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), ambassador to China in the Trump 1.0 administration; (2) Robert O’Brien, National Security Advisor during Trump 1.0; and (3) Ric Grenell, ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence during Trump 1.0.

Why did Trump pick Rubio as the chief foreign policy officer of the United States?

1. Trump does not need Rubio to deal with China and Taiwan. Rubio is reliably tough on China, but Trump likes to deal with Emperor Xi directly, and has many other China experts in his administration to help him as needed, such as Robert Lighthizer, Trade Representative during Trump 1.0..

2. Trump does not need Rubio to deal with Russia and Ukraine. Rubio understands that the war in Ukraine needs to be settled and ended, but Trump likes to deal with Czar Putin directly. For dealing with Zelensky, he has already deployed Elon Musk.

3. Trump does not need Rubio to deal with Iran and Israel. Once Trump stops the flow of cash to Iran, as he did during Trump 1.0, then Iran will not be able to continue supporting the state-sponsored terrorism of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and its other proxies. Prime Minister Netanyahu can handle most of the military work needed to be done in the Middle East, with support from the United States and allies. When the Iranian threat is tamed, then more Arab Muslim states are likely to join in Abraham Accords with Israel. Trump has Jared Kushner helping him in this region, and now has added Mike Huckabee.

4. Trump does not need Rubio to deal with Europe and NATO, because Trump likes to handle that himself. He has very capable assistants for this region, like Ric Grenell, and allies in Europe, like Nigel Farage in Great Britain. Also, Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, is not a like-minded ally, but he knows what Trump wants from them.

So, what does Trump want Rubio to do? Where does Rubio bring the most value to his assignment? Trump needs Rubio to provide the foreign relations component of his border security policy. This policy of border defense is led by: (1) Tom Homan, Border Czar and Director of ICE, who will be deporting millions of illegal aliens; (2) Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security and former Governor of South Dakota, replacing Alejandro Mayorkas; and (3) Steve Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff, architect of this policy since Trump 1.0, and founder of America First Legal defense fund for conservative causes.

Rubio’s main assignment is most likely to be to handle relations with the countries in Latin America that have most fueled the invasion of the United States by waves of illegal aliens invited by progressive Democrats. These countries are primarily Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and they are all totalitarian communist tyrannies:

1. Cuba is the head of the snake. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba lost its communist subsidies and endured a special period of hunger and deprivation. They bounced back by sponsoring Hugo Chavez to conquer Venezuela, first with an attempted coup in 1992, and then by winning the presidential election at the end of 1998.

2. Venezuela is rich in oil-and-gas, but since 1999 they have been conquered by Cuba, and have become Cuba’s main source of supplies to maintain its grip on its oppressed people. This year Venezuela is trying to steal a presidential election, despite the overwhelming empirical evidence that the opposition won. They even sent us a homemade prison gang, El Tren de Aragua, which has been designated a trans-national terrorist organization by the United States.

3. Nicaragua was a battleground in the 1980’s during the Reagan administration. Since then, under Cuban tutelage, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega has established an oppressive tyranny. Pundits observe that Ortega started as a Sandinista, but has become an Orteguista, using his family to establish a crony-capitalist dictatorship.

These countries have led in organizing, and providing staging areas for, most of the caravans of illegal aliens who have invaded America under the Biden-Harris administration.

Rubio then will have to deal with Mexico, a failed communist narco-state and the main conduit, if no longer the main source, for the invasion. Dealing with Mexico starts with dealing with the narco-and-human trafficking cartels who control a majority of the national territory and are allied with China. A first step would be to declare that these cartels also constitute trans-national terrorist organizations.

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Finally, Rubio must solidify our relationship with the friendly countries in the region, especially Argentina, El Salvador and Panama:

1. In Argentina, libertarian President Milei was elected last year and his free-market capitalist policies are starting to make Argentina great again, although they have a long way to go. He is a close ally of America and the West, and visited Mar-a-Lago this week.

2. In El Salvador, President Bukele was re-elected decisively this year based on his tough law-and-order policies. He is breaking the base for the Mara Salvatrucha-13 street gang, and has sought to cooperate with a United States administration that prioritizes border security.

3. In Panama, President Mulino was elected this year on a conservative platform. He has offered to help stop the flow of illegal aliens to the United States, especially those crossing the Darien Gap, but has received no response from the Biden-Harris administration.

Monroe Doctrine

Rubio’s assignment will require the revival of the Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed in 1823 the intention of the United States to keep foreign powers out of the Americas. This Doctrine was proposed by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, who had accompanied his father John Adams on his diplomatic mission to London during the American Revolution. It was enthusiastically adopted by President James Monroe, who had served as a junior officer accompanying George Washington in crossing the Delaware River on Christmas Day of 1776.

At that time the foreign powers were Great Britain, France and Spain. Today these powers include China, Russia and Iran. This Doctrine has been ignored by United States administrations since: (1) Kennedy at Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961-62; (2) Carter giving away the Panama Canal in 1979; and (3) everyone this millenium as foreign powers have been allowed to gain footholds in the Americas.

As he works to carry out his assignment, Rubio will probably find a need to implement regime change in the communist countries, and probably also to create a new buffer republic between the United States and Mexico.

Marco Rubio has the opportunity to become the most consequential Secretary of State for the Americas since John Quincy Adams.