{"id":542458,"date":"2026-03-24T14:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:24:06","slug":"marco-rubio-to-testify-at-former-confidants-criminal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542458\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio to testify at former confidant\u2019s criminal trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"53AL4AG5GVGBLPX4C2AZHOLEDE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">MIAMI \u2014 Marco Rubio and David Rivera charted a rise in this city\u2019s famously scrappy politics together.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UC462CCNJRGIPB5OTSNIIU3UNE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Both sons of Cuban immigrants, they befriended each other as <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/04\/marco-rubio-stands-by-his-friend-but-at-what-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">campaign volunteers<\/a> in the 1990s and climbed the ranks of local politics side-by-side. As young state legislators, they bought a house together near the capital in Tallahassee, where they orchestrated Rubio\u2019s rise to Florida House Speaker and then launched winning bids to Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Marco Rubio and David Rivera charted a rise in this city\u2019s famously scrappy politics together. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-542458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}