{"id":185412,"date":"2026-03-10T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185412\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:56:10","slug":"the-miami-trial-exposing-foreign-influence-in-trumpland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185412\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miami Trial Exposing Foreign Influence In Trumpland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At every stage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rubio<\/a>\u2019s political ascent, David Rivera has been by his side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, the two Miami-raised Cuban-American Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/06\/david-rivera-arrest-venezuela\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earned the nicknames<\/a> \u201cBatman and Robin\u201d as they rose to power in the Florida House of Representatives. When Rubio sought the speaker\u2019s gavel, Rivera, known as Rubio\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/12\/us\/marco-rubio-david-rivera.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enforcer<\/a>,\u201d whipped the necessary votes. The young legislators even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2010\/12\/rubio-rivera-mom-money-gop-dog-track\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">put down a mortgage together<\/a> for a Tallahassee bachelor pad near the state Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Later, when Rubio was debating whether to launch a long-shot bid for the U.S. Senate, Rivera convinced him to run and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/12\/us\/marco-rubio-david-rivera.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">campaigned for him<\/a> across Florida. And when Rubio decided to propose to his now-wife, Rivera helped him pick out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/12\/us\/marco-rubio-david-rivera.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">engagement ring<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This month, the two will be by one another\u2019s side once again \u2014 except this time on opposite sides of a courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>            Create a FREE account, or log in. <\/p>\n<p>Registered readers of The Lever get access to a limited number of free articles every month, breaking news alerts, and our Lever Daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At every stage in Marco Rubio\u2019s political ascent, David Rivera has been by his side.\u00a0 Twenty years ago,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-185412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}