Scarborough: Rubio’s Finances Could Be GOP’s Benghazi, ‘a Lot of Smoke’ and No Fire
[RUSH TRANSCRIPT]
BRZEZINSKI: “All right. Another story. Former state representative Mike Fasano who donated to Jeb Bush says it quote ‘it became very disturbing to me how he was using other people’s money’. According to CNN Fasano points to a statement that dismissed claims against Rubio. It dumped records showing personal spending including movie tickets, charges to a blind store and family vacation. Damages to Rubio’s minivan and thousands more to replace it. He offered explanations. The wine store sold chips. The minivan was damaged at a Republican event. The other charges he said he used the wrong credit card in his wallet and eventually reimbursed the party. The commission advocate wrote when the level of negligence between the state party American Express card and his card with error is disturbing.”
MEACHAM: “I just want to ask Joe, you know Florida better than any of us. Is this kind of thing common, not common how surprised should we be?”
SCARBOROUGH: “Actually when these stories first came out in 2010 and Marco was running for the Senate. I thought after reading stories about him, I think it was the ‘Miami Herald’ or ‘St. Pete Times’ he was going to be in big trouble. There was a culture in the Florida legislature. Especially on the Republican side. You had the Republican chairman at the time. I think he got sent to jail. You have campaign money, professional money and personal money. You never mixed the three. The leaders back in Florida in Rubio’s time seem to be incredibly wreckless and in fact, a friend of mine spent time in jail for doing things Marco was accused of. I will say this, I’ve been here since 2010. If the other shoe was ever going to fall, let me say this has been the longest five year step I’ve ever seen in my life and if Jeb Bush’s people are hoping five years later the other shoot falls, lots of luck. I think this may turn out to be the Benghazi scandal of the GOP primary in that there’s a lot of smoke and you never really find the fire. That said, they don’t have the credit cards Marco has been holding on to. This is what the Bush campaign is asking and a lot of people are asking why won’t he release these credit card records.”
SOLTIS ANDERSON: “I think the big question is did he reimburse for everything or not. If he did, this is a little thing that ends up going away because it’s not really relevant to what most care about in the election. If it seems like there was a misuse of funds, if the shoe was going to drop it would have been dropped by the Charlie Chris people in 2010. It wouldn’t waited all this time.”
