Rubio balks at Clinton’s attempt to defend Biden while being heckled: ‘Peace through strength — it actually is real’

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) reacted to a feud former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got into with an audience member at an event she attended.

While Clinton was speaking Monday at the newly launched Institute of Global Politics through the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the audience member specifically criticized her support for President Joe Biden’s national security package for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine. The person also asked Clinton to “denounce” Biden’s “warmongering speech” amid Israel’s war against the Hamas terrorist group as well as Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia.

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“It’s the culmination of — look, it’s become a slogan, peace through strength, it actually is real, and is more real in the Middle East than any other part of the world,” Rubio said on Fox News when asked what he thought of the disruption at Clinton’s speech. “But if you look at it from the moment Joe Biden takes over, we had this embarrassing — we got run out of Afghanistan, we got run out of there. Even though we knew that was building, we got run out of there.”

Rubio also claimed that Biden’s leadership as president has suggested “weakness” and that it has accumulated to become multiple global attacks, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Hamas‘s attack on Israel.

The Florida senator was also asked if he thought it was “a little sleazy” for Biden to portray himself as a “wartime president.” Rubio agreed, joking that it was almost like “an arsonist running as the world’s best firefighter.”

“Look, I know that we internally in our politics talk about the guy falls down some stairs; he says things that don’t make any sense,” Rubio said. “But, you know, they watch that in Iran, they watch that in Beijing, they watched in Moscow as well. No country, no rational leader, has ever gotten into a conflict that they don’t believe they can win, and they measure everything. The Iranians would never order those proxies.”

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The $105 billion national security package and its details were laid out by the Biden administration on Friday, which include security support to Israel, an increase in Israeli efforts to secure hostage releases, and an extension of humanitarian aid to civilians impacted by the war. Additionally, training, equipment, and weapons assisting Ukraine in its defense against Russia would also be provided.

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the United Nations that at least 33 United States residents have been killed during Israel’s war against Hamas, with 10 still unaccounted for. He has called on all nations to condemn Hamas’s attacks and that all civilians should be protected.