Univisión and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio have had a tense relationship for more than a year, since the Miami Herald alleged that the network offered to “kill” a story about the senator’s brother-in-law in exchange for a story. Sen. Rubio sat down with Univisión’s Jorge Ramos this week to discuss, among other things, his book, and when Ramos noted that the story Univisión offered to kill was in the book, Sen. Rubio berated the anchor for that “black mark in the history of Univisión.” …
When Ramos tried to say the network went to the senator’s office, he declared that a lie and argued that the network “stationed a team of cameras in front of my mother’s house trying to capture the cameras.” Over Ramos attempt to explain the story, Sen. Rubio argued that the story was “not about me, it was the personal story of two private citizens who have nothing to do with politics.”
“I should have been asked about those links,” he continued, “I would have been pleased to tell you that I had nothing to do with it, I was 16 years old; it had a very negative impact on my family; it was a very sad moment.” Instead of doing that, Sen. Rubio accused the network of “persecut[ing] first my sister, then my family directly,” adding that Univisión never called him, that “it was me who called Univisión… because I thought it was a joke.” The “persecuting” quote and the point about him being the one to call the network and not vice versa, as well as a comment about him being taken completely out of context on Twitter thanks to the network, didn’t make it to air today, but appear on the official transcript of the interview.
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