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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Frat boy': Alex Jones taunts Rubio in tense Senate standoff
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/marco-rubio-alex-jones-clash-808374Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and InfoWars host Alex Jones clashed outside a Senate Intelligence committee hearing today, with the lawmaker saying hed take care of Jones as the far-right provocateur mockingly called him a little gangster thug" and "frat boy."
Rubio, addressing reporters outside the hearing room, was badgered with questions by Jones, who made a surprise appearance at the Senate hearing devoted to foreign interference on social media.
The exchange quickly went downhill when the senator warned the conspiracy-peddling host, who was standing beside him in the hallway, to not touch me again.
Im just patting you nicely, Jones responded, before accusing Rubio of trying to get him arrested.
Rubio rebuffed the charge, adding: Ill take care of you myself.
"Rubio just threatened to physically take care of me," Jones replied, an insinuation that Rubio disputed.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,515 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Marco's a water boy for the Varsity squad and Jones is a waste of carbon and water.
frogmarch
(12,163 posts)before Jones went from rabble rousing on the Internet to doing it in real life.
Looks like it's begun.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)What can ya do?
UTUSN
(70,848 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)I guess he's looking to start trouble so he can start suing. What a cook.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)maxrandb
(15,435 posts)inwiththenew
(972 posts)There's video of it on youtube for anyone who really wants to see it.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Alex is lucky. There are some people who would have been far less tolerant of his antics than Rubio was.
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