MIAMI — A trial that kicked off this week in Florida has all the makings of an international spectacle thanks to the involvement of an unlikely witness: Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The top Trump administration official is taking time amid the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran to testify in court about a friend — a former Republican congressman accused of enriching himself by illegally lobbying for Venezuela’s socialist government — in a case that relies on a foreign influence law that President Donald Trump himself has panned after it took down several of his closest advisers.
Contradictions abound in the criminal trial of David Rivera, a South Florida politician who built his career espousing the rigid anti-left stance of Miami’s Cuban American community, in large part because of the Trump administration’s shifting stance on the law Rivera is accused of breaking.