Marco Rubio thrashed Donald Trump on the debate stage Thursday, hurling his harshest attacks of the campaign at the mogul just five days before the most crucial votes are cast in the Republican presidential primary.
The Florida senator was quick on his feet, a dramatic reversal from his debate debacle earlier this month, as he tried to convince voters that the GOP frontrunner can’t be trusted to pursue conservative policies — not on judges, not on religious liberty, not on health care, and not even on his signature issue, immigration.
Rubio skewered Trump for starting a “fake university” he said duped people into borrowing tens of thousands of dollars. He knocked him for manufacturing his clothing line overseas. He belittled his entrepreneurial skills, bringing up the inheritance he received from his father. And he accused Trump of a long history of hiring of undocumented immigrants.
In an early exchange, Rubio claimed that Trump outright lied about hiring undocumented Polish workers in the early 1980s.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. 38 years ago," Trump said.
"Oh, he lied 38 years ago," Rubio replied. "I guess there's a statute of limitation on lies,"
Rubio even managed to turn his disastrous debate performance earlier this month into an asset. After being previously mocked as a robot for mechanically repeating a slam on Obama, Rubio turned the tables on Trump.
As he laid into Trump for a flimsy plan to replace Obamacare, Rubio accused Trump of repeating a flawed defense.
“Talking about repeating. I watched him repeat himself five times four weeks ago,” Trump said, referencing his debate debacle.
“I saw you repeat yourself five times four seconds ago,” Rubio shot back." Politico
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