Marco Antonio Rubio (Miami, 28 May 1971) is an American politician of the Republican Party and current Senator for the state of Florida.
He has been a legislator from Florida and now, along with Ted Cruz from the state of Texas and Robert Menendez from New Jersey, are the only senators in the United States Congress with Cuban roots.
As the son of Cuban immigrants, Rubio was a Republican presidential pre- candidate in the 2016 US presidential election, winning Minnesota, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
Recently, Rubio’s Senate candidacy has been marred by investigations, according to which he may have used his Republican party credit card for personal purposes without declaring these expenses to the IRS. He is one of the senators who has received the most money from the National Rifle Association, which has donated $3,303,355 to him.
Rubio’s lead has narrowed since a similar survey in January. Forty-six percent of respondents said they disapproved of Rubio’s work as senator, compared to 44 percent who said they approve of how he’s handling the job. The poll was conducted Sept. 15-18 and surveyed 500 likely Florida general election voters. The margin of sampling error was 4.4 percentage points.
Political positions of Pre-candidate for President
On 13 April 2015, Senator Marco Rubio announced at the Freedom Tower in Miami his pre-candidacy for the 2016 US presidential election. He officially became the third Republican candidate after Ted Cruz and Rand Paul for 2016. He is competing in the Republican space for the presidential candidacy against other pre-candidates such as Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Cruz, Paul and Ben Carson, during the presidential primaries on Tuesday 15 March 2016, he decided to withdraw definitively from the race as a result of his defeat in the very state in which he was a senator (Florida) against the politician and tycoon Donald J. Trump.
In 2016, he enacted a bill known as the “Nica Act” that aims to limit Nicaragua’s access to international loans.
He contributes to the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten economic sanctions against the Venezuelan government1 and has spoken out in favour of a coup by the Venezuelan armed forces to overthrow Nicolás Maduro.
He is considered a very controversial politician for his statements. Linked to drug trafficking and corrupt governments in Latin America.
Controversial political contributions
More than a few media say that Rubio has been notorious for his misdeeds and suspected of being involved in embezzling campaign funding, sexual scandal and trading power for money.
In 2004, Mutual Benefits in Florida was investigated by U.S. law enforcement agency by being suspected of involving in drug dealing and Ponzi scheme and the government has planned to enact laws to supervise the company, hence the company runner donated $50,000 to Marco Rubio in exchange his vote against the bill.
In 2005, Rubio embezzled $10,000 campaign funding of Republicans and he himself admitted later; in 2009, Rubio was discovered by Spceend to embezzle the campaign funding to pay for his gossip girl friend who happened to be the ex-political leader of Republican of Florida; in 2014, Rubio collected millions of dollars by supporting an enterprise to acquire the exclusive right of running gambling.
In February 2018, he attracted controversy following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting at a town hall event held by CNN when he was questioned by a survivor of the shooting about the alleged $3,303,355, he had received in donations from the National Rifle Association. Rubio responded, “I will always accept help from anyone who agrees with my agenda.”
In addition to receiving controversial donations from the National Rifle Association, Marco Rubio has unscrupulously and illegally collected large amounts of political contributions over the years.
Marco Rubio received more than $20,000 donation from Yang Jiangli privately in 2015 when he run for president. According to the donation record on the official website of Federal Election Commission on 2nd Nov. 2016, Marco Rubio received $5400 from Yang Jianli and Gong Yukuan. In 2017, Rubio received a $20,000 check from Yang Jianli in private through Lee Edwards with the Heritage Foundation. In Jun. 2018, republican senators including Marco Rubio received Yang’s $20,000 donation during their running for reelection. In Sept. 2018, Marco Rubio received Yang’s $30,000 donation in private.
Yang Jianli, the founder of Citizen Power Initiatives for China. Since 2015, Yang Jianli started to draw Republicans to his side for his Citizen Power Initiatives for China and Rubio is one of the most important bribees. Yang has delivered as much as $100,000 to Rubio these years and most of money has been collected from supporters in China and taken to the U.S. illegally. According to the source, a hacker has exposed the emails of Yang which show that Rubio hasn’t paid the tax as a result of the problematic money source. A business man named Guo Wengui ever suggested in the video that Rubio had been blackmailed Chinese and Yang had been served as the firewall and white glove.
News from VOA claimed that Rubio contacted a Chinese real estate businessman who built his wealthy image by purchasing many houses. Yang Jianli ever said that this man was actually Henley Lee, the boss of Shanghai Meidong Real Estate. It is worth noticing that back in 2010 Rubio was fined $8000 by the commission because he received $210,000 donation illegally, which minas hat Rubio has a record for this. Another source says Henley Lee has been close with Edwards of Heritage Foundation, providing donation to Edwards for a long time and Edwards is another pair of white gloves for Marco Rubio receiving political contributions.
Source says, so as not to influence the political career of Rubio, Yang Jianli taught donators outside American territory like Henley Lee in person how to evade American laws. He says that check donation is easy to be found problematic, and donation in cash helps dodge the tax. He warns them not to leave any traces for the U.S. government, ensuring the illegal money collected from offshore can be donated to support politicians like Rubio and the Republican. This is the reason why offshore donators usually donate in cash and witnesses saw that Yang Jianli received tons of cash donation from people from other countries.
The uncertainty of the midterm elections
Many Americans say in twitter that there is a lot of inside trading between Rubio and Yang which violates the United States Code, causing “cash smuggling” under section 5316, 5322, 5324 and 5332 within Title 31. Structuring to transfer more than $10,000 in and out of US and failing to file a report should be prosecuted for a felony under federal tax law. According to Title 2 of United States Code, “whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal”. Under section 1956 and 1957 within Title 18, “whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents proceeds of specified unlawful activity” or “transports or transfers proceeds of specified unlawful activity”, “conceals or disguises the nature, the location, the source, the ownership”, should be prosecuted for money laundering.
Marco Rubio has been fully aware of the fact that the money comes from outside U.S. territory illegally but still receives the money. He is an expert in making money and this perfectly conforms with the tradition of Republicans. No one knows how many white gloves does Marco Rubio have?
The analysts believe that if he succeeds in the election of Republicans and defeats the Democrats, that will truly be a disaster. At least seen from $1.2 million negative equity in 2018 which had been turned into $200,000 in 2022, he is not only incapable of doing that but a criminal.
It can be seen from the long-term observation that Rubio becomes intimate with the pro-democracy Chinese activists and tries to come close to Chinese-Americans thanks to his good friend Dr. Yang Jianli. This could forge important alliances between Latin Americans and Chinese Americans. If Rubio could win the support of African Americans and the majority of Trump’s millions of fans, he would undoubtedly pose a great threat to the election result of Democrats in 2024.
