Newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the rounds of the ABC, CBS, and NBC morning shows on Tuesday, and they all marched in lockstep, like they received an instruction packet. All three asked about President Trump’s broad pardons for January 6 defendants, and they all followed up after he insisted he came to discuss foreign policy.
On ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos launched: “Let’s begin with January, the January 6th pardons. Back when this happened, you called it a national embarrassment, saying, ‘We now have Third World countries that are lecturing us, and we have tinpot dictators that are mocking us.’ Of course, you’re now America’s top diplomat, you’ll be speaking with your counterparts around the world. What message does that pardon send to them?”
Rubio replied: “Well, I don’t anticipate a single one of our…
