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MARCO “MCCARTHY” RUBIO’S CAMPAIGN TO SILENCE TRUMP’S CRITICS
 
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Ann Wright
August 5, 2026
LA Progressive
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_ Those who challenge and protest U.S. policies are not terrorists,
and they are certainly NOT paid by other governments. _

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Thin skinned and heavy handed, the Trump administration apparently
feels like it is being singled out by those who dissent from its
policies. As a result, Trump appointees are taking drastic "McCarthy"
tactics to stop dissent.

In less than one month, alleging that dissent and protests are part of
attempts of other governments “to overthrow the government of the
United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sponsored two
major initiatives to frighten those who oppose the Trump
administration policies. The first salvo was orchestrating a
conference with 60 countries participating in “Threats From
Left-Wing Terrorists.” The second was the report on Cuba that
alleged virtually every group that has ever visited Cuba is paid by
the Cuban government.

NO ONE IS PAID TO PROTEST—IF ONE IS NOT OUTRAGED THEN YOU AREN’T
WATCHING

These allegations paid protest and travelling on the dime of another
country are unfounded, untrue and fly in the face of the history of
protests in the U.S. and travel by U.S. citizens to see the effects of
U.S. polices on other countries.

Trump’s erratic foreign policy including the disastrous attacks on
Iran as a favor to Netanyahu’s Israeli war machine, attacks
domestically cutting health and education, horrific treatment of
migrants, daily outlandish statements on just about every subject and
disregard for facts in virtually every issue, all provide good reasons
for protests by outraged U.S. citizens.

No one needs to be paid to be outraged!!!

DISSENT IS NOT ILLEGAL AND IS NOT PAID BY OTHER COUNTRIES

In particular, Secretary of State and National Security advisor Marco
Rubio, who has authored the latest "McCarty" report to quell
opposition to illegal, immoral policies of his Department and the
Trump administration in general, seems to have lost his grasp on the
history of dissent in the U.S.

From his 15 years in the U.S. Senate, he should remember that many of
each administration's domestic and international policies have been
lawfully and non-violently protested by U.S. citizens in the U.S.
Congress.

Having been a part of many protests since I resigned from the State
Department in March 2003 in opposition to a war policy-- President
George W. Bush's war on Iraq, I know that these protests are NOT a
part of attempts of other governments to “overthrow the government
of the United States,” but are legitimate shows of concern about
specific policies. Rubio’s allegations of other countries’
influence in these protests are unfounded and untrue.

I was not paid by a foreign government to resign. I resigned because I
felt the war on Iraq was illegal, immoral and a dangerous action
geoparsing the national security of the United States.

I have not been paid by any country to protest U.S. policies, nor do I
know anyone who has been paid. Protest is a legitimate, time-consuming
legitimate act
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of outrage about a policy that people use to bring attention to the
policy, and hopefully effect change in the policy.

MARCO “MCCARTHY” RUBIO’S TACTICS-BLAME THE LEFT WHEN THE RIGHT
HAS VIOLENTLY ATTACKED THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

The first attack against legitimate protest came in the U.S.
Department of State sponsored conference called “Far Left
Terrorism”
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held in Washington, DC in July 2026 where Secretary of State Marco
Rubio and White House pitbull Stephen Miller harangued the
representatives of 66 nations
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about terrorists from the left wanting to overthrow the U.S.
government.

In his opening statement Rubio
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railed: “This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been
driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.
It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and
the cowardly against the strong and the good.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called left-wing
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extremism as a growing threat aimed at “the overthrow of our system
and form of government” that officials previously failed to
sufficiently address. Miller railed, “We must stay the course and be
completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies
of civilization. If the left is allowed to use the real or actual
threat of violence to destabilize our institutions, then those
institutions cannot and will not succeed.”

A White House press release
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stated: “Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, far-left
extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity the
world has long reserved for jihadist terrorism.”

OOPS, TRUMP AND RUBIO FORGET TO MENTION THE VIOLENT ATTEMPT AT
OVERTHROW OF THE U.S. ELECTORAL PROCESS BY THE TRUMP-INSPIRED RIGHT
WING JANUARY 6 MOB

Of course, neither Rubio nor Miller mentioned President Trump’s
pardon of the over 1500 persons who did try to violently overthrow the
United States electoral process
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on January 6, 2001 as they attacked the Capitol police and broke into
and destroyed many offices in the U.S. Capitol.

The attempted overthrow of the 2020 election by seeking to nullify the
election results through lawsuits in 62 federal and state courts was
attempted by Trump’s loyal personal lawyers including the current
acting U.S. Attorney General
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and head of the U.S. Department of Justice Tood Blanche
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and disgraced and disbarred lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy
Guilani. Their cases of election fraud were stopped by rulings in all
62 federal and state lawsuits
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that no election fraud had occurred.

RUBIO AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT’S UNTRUTHFUL, DISHONEST REPORT ABOUT
CUBA, PAID PROTESTERS AND CUBA HAS BEEN TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT

The most recent and most ludicrous allegations of left wing violence
and protests being funded by other countries is in Secretary of State
Marco "McCarthy" Rubio's 10- page report on “Cuba: the Capitol of
21st Century Communism”
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Rubio accuses the National Network on Cuba, National Lawyers Guild,
CODEPINK: Women for Peace, the People's Forum, IFCO/Pastors For Peace,
Democratic Socialists of America of being paid by the Cuban government
whose goal, the report states, has been for 60 years of working to
overthrow the U.S. government.

Talk about turning the facts on their heads, as is well-documented, 13
successive U.S. presidential
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administrations since 1959 --Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter,
Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama (first term when CIA
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policies were still in effect, but changing in Obama’s second term
with diplomatic recognition), Trump 1, Biden and Trump 2 -- have
attempted to overthrow the Cuban government in the 60+ years of its
existence.

The current attempt of overthrow of the Cuban government by the United
States is centered on the brutal total blockade of fuel going to Cuba
which has left Cuban citizens without electricity for operations in
hospitals, for food preparation for the ability to conduct normal life
activities. Making life so miserable for the Cuban citizenry that they
overthrow their government would full fill the longstanding hopes of
Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

RUBIO IS NOT HONEST ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND AS A CUBAN-AMERICAN

Marco Rubio has been less than forthright about his heritage as a
Cuban-American in his quest for the overthrow of the Cuban government.

Marco Rubio, “Mr. Righteous against birthright citizenship,” is a
"birthright citizen" born in the U.S. of non-citizen parents
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who had immigrated in 1956 from Cuba under the Batista dictatorship
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not from the 1959 revolutionary government.

Marco Rubio, “Mr. Tough on illegal immigrants,” his own
grandfather entered the U.S. illegally and was ordered to be deported
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but was saved from deportation by an amnesty during the Cuban missile
crisis.

Marco Rubio, “Mr. Kill the Boat Drug Runners of the Caribbean”,
his own brother-in-law was convicted of drug running
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and his sister implicated but never charged.

Marco Rubio, “Mr. I Know All About Cuba Because I Am
Cuban-American,” has been to Cuba only once—where in Cuba did he
go? A few hours at the U.S. prison on the U.S. Naval base at
Guantanamo.

No doubt, more will come in the next two years as Rubio, Miller and
others in the Administration seem to think they can get away with
outrageous bullying of individuals and organizations that do not agree
with them and that challenge them in nonviolent ways, in contrast to
the January 6 gang..

In particular, there are always protests against the horrific effects
of brutal sanctions that the U.S. government uses to make life so
difficult that citizens of other countries that they will overthrow
their own governments, whether it be Cuba, Venezuela, Iran or
Nicaragua.

ISRAEL’S PAID INFLUENCE ON U.S. CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS SEEMS TO BE OK
WITH RUBIO

However, Rubio no doubt is thinking that since his buddies in the
Netanyahu’s government have paid Trump’s former campaign manager,
Brad Parscale, millions of dollars in a specific program to influence
U.S. public opinion stop the massive decline in Israel’s
“likeability,” that other countries have paid off U.S. persons to
work clandestinely on the same scale.

Parscale's firm was hired by Israel for $6 million in September 2025
and then signed a $15 million contract
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with Israeli firm Havas to conduct a digital campaign on behalf of the
State of Israel
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to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Pascale and his team
sent conservative
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influencers suggested positive language about Israel for posts on
social media sites such as X, Instagram and TikTok. The influencers
are then compensated based on how many “likes” each post gets from
readers.

Israeli Prime Minister
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Netanyahu’s government has dramatically increased spending on
influence operations. Earlier this year, Israel increased by four
times
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“public diplomacy” influence budget from $150 million in 2025 to
$730 million in 2026.

But even the Israel Times says it’s too late for a “facelift”
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as a Pew Research Center poll
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reported that 60 percent of Americans now view Israel unfavorably, up
seven points in a single year, with only 37% viewing it favorably
after Israel has committed genocide
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of Palestinians in Gaza, pillaged and plundered homes, farms, animals
in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian West Bank, destroyed southern
Lebanon and got the Trump administration up to its neck in the war on
Iran,

KEEP CHALLENGING ILLEGAL, IMMORAL AND CRIMINAL POLICIES

The two recent major attempts of the Trump administration to quell
dissent, show how serious challenging illegal, immoral and criminal
policies has become and how important it is that we push back hard
against these attempts intimidating citizens to silence their dissent.

The two recent major attempts of the Trump administration to quell
dissent, show how serious challenging illegal, immoral and criminal
policies has become and how important it is that we push back hard
against these attempts intimidating citizens to silence their dissent.

However, despite these brutal, heavy handed attempts to silent us,
dissent is spreading to regular citizens. In a recent letter to the
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of my hometown newspaper _Honolulu Star Advertiser,_ which serves a
large U.S. military population, a resident of Hawaii summarized the
challenge very well, “The true domestic enemy includes those who
monopolize political and economic power. The real enemy includes
individuals who misinform, threaten and disenfranchise the less
powerful. The true enemy are those who are antidemocratic, have little
or no concern regarding the welfare of others and enrich themselves,
family and a few friends at the expense of the general population.”

_ANN WRIGHT served 29 years in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves. She
retired as a Colonel with many awards including the Legion of Merit.
She also served as a U.S. diplomat in U.S. Embassies in Nicaragua,
Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia,
Afghanistan and Mongolia and received the Award for Heroism for the
evacuation of the U.S. and international community from the civil war
in Sierra Leone in 1997. She resigned from the U.S. government in 2003
in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. She is the co-author of
“Dissent: Voices of Conscience.”_

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