Sen. Rubio’s web site will only accept messages of 3,000 characters or fewer. This is my full text. I left out the nastiest stuff out of respect to the process. I’m going to link to this in my acceptably brief email. Scott will be easier to condense.
I am distressed that your total abandonment of your Constitutional duty to act as juror in the impeachment trial included voting against adopting rules both party leaders had worked to put forward. You, of all senators, should want a mulligan on Donald Trump's political crimes.
A year ago, you let it circulate among your constituents that Trump was guilty of the charges, but you would vote to acquit because catching him was enough. It most definitely wasn't enough, and you, Marco Rubio, senior senator from the state of Florida, played a part in subjecting us to everything he did after that like a redneck King George:
Compromising national security through his gutting of three cabinet departments,
Encouraged his attorney general to act as a wartime consiglieri, turning our Department of Justice into a single-client private practice,
Cheering on supporters as they attempted to run a Biden campaign bus off an Interstate Highway and one, including one truck owner who actually rammed the bus.
Attacking state and local governments' legitimate efforts to safely and honestly conduct an election during the worst public health crisis in more than a century.
Refusing, for the first time in our history, in advance, to abide by any election results that didn't end in his favor.
Making a mockery of our courts by filing lawsuit after lawsuit in which evidence was never cited to suggest anything but an honest election.
Cajoling and bullying and threatening public officials in his effort to get them to do as he did and violate an Oath of Office to defend and uphold the Constitution.
And then taking all of this malfeasance to your workplace, endangering and beating and injuring employees in your charge, seeking to kill elected officials and overthrow the government.
Make no mistake, senator, the blood of seven Americans is partly on your hands because of the 2020 acquittal. You owe them and you owe the American people. You owe the officers who fought to protect you. You owe the capitol workers also endured the terror, and then who struggled to clean up your workplace and cooked your meals and brought bottled water to you so the country could move forward. Susan Collins, who made similar statements to yours in 2020, gets this. Going into this trial, you are not just a juror and a witness. You and she let Trump send those people through the door.
It is said you are scared the daughter will primary you, and people believe that because we know you're a coward. Voting to acquit won't inoculate you. If you know anything about that family, it is that they can recognize who can be bullied and then they bear in. You will have no standing as a man of honor if she does run against you. We will all laugh at you. You will be played as surely as her father played you in 2016.
So we know you don't care if the rules have been carefully negotiated to be fair, something you caucus wasn't willing to do in 2020. We know that an effective argument can be made about the Constitutional standing this impeachment has, that the President's lawyer can then perform a speech more reminiscent of Pat Bertram on Green Acres that never addressed any of the House prosecutors' issues, and you will play Ebb. We know when you swore you would pay strict attention to the proceedings, you tweeted that the entire matter belongs in the criminal justice system.
Well, it doesn't. Your Constitutional duties and oath involve the system of government, not the world outside. The events of Jan. 6 were certainly within the realm of crime, but the Constitution requires you to protect our Constitutional form of government. To prevent this from ever happening again. To assure people on both sides of the aisle that this shouldn't have happened, that it won't be allowed to happen again, and in the future they will not have to prepare to do it themselves.
You've never taken any views other than those of your narrow ideological range into consideration in the past, but we are all Floridians and we are all Americans. And you swore an oath to protect our form of government. Unless a compelling case can be made that everything put forward Wednesday has no factual merit, to vote to acquit the former president reflects one thing: You. Have. No. Honor.
I would start bringing my sandwiches and water bottles from home, taking the stairs and not feel certain next time that security has my back.