Marco Rubio Sets World Abuzz with Cryptic Gaddafi Tweet
The senator's tweet was widely interpreted as a message to Venezuelan President Maduro.
Sam Brodey 2.24.19
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), one of the biggest critics in Congress of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, sent out a graphic and cryptic tweet on Sunday showing a before-and-after photo of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
(image of tweet, see link)
Gaddafi, who antagonized the U.S. for decades, was deposed in a 2011 Western military intervention. In the ensuing conflict, Libyan rebels found Gaddafi and brutally murdered him in public. A still from a video of that spectacle was one of the images in Rubio’s post.
Rubio’s tweet was widely interpreted as a message to Maduro, setting off furor on Twitter among critics who saw it as a thinly-veiled threat of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela.
Read more at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-rubio-sends-world-abuzz-with-cryptic-gaddafi-tweet
I don't think the tweet was in good taste but I think he should just move on, he placed images that I saw of the Romanian dictator Ceaucescu and Noreiga, before and after too. The Gaddafi one though, is the one that raises some eye brows.
https://twitter.com/marcorubio (personal account versus the official Senator account)
