Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio's campaign is mocking a recent report about the Florida senator's arrest when he was 18 years old by "admitting" other faux pas Rubio has committed.
The campaign joked Friday evening that it was "voluntarily disclosing the rest of Rubio's crime spree" in a "classic Friday night news dump," after the Washington Post reported that Rubio was arrested in 1990 when he was in a park after it closed drinking alcohol.
In a campaign video meant to mock the Post article, "supporters" of Rubio's 2016 presidential competitors — including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — say that Rubio has committed a string of other "crimes" including jaywalking, double-dipping his chips and coloring outside the lines.
"Marco Rubio doesn't RSVP," says a woman in the video wearing a Cruz 2016 shirt.
Rubio's campaign has openly ridiculed the Washington Post article, suggesting it comes after other 2016 candidates have spent tens of millions to attack him and is the latest in a string of investigations by the "mainstream media" into the Florida senator.
The report also restarted the #RubioCrimeSpree hashtag on Twitter, with users jokingly suggesting other "crimes" that Florida Republican has committed.
Todd Harris, a strategist for Rubio, dismissed the incident, telling the Post that Rubio "was never taken into custody, never hired a lawyer and never appeared in court. Why The Washington Post thinks that is a story is beyond me.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...ts-back-at-washington-post-admits-crime-spree
