‘Would not be right here if Trump did not need me to’: Marco Rubio’s response to US president’s ‘hellhole’ comment | India Information
NEW DELHI: President Donald Trump loves India and is an enormous fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modisaid US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Monday whereas responding to questions concerning the reported endorsement earlier by the president of “racist remarks” calling India a hellhole.“I would not be right here if the president did not need me to be right here. He cares – he would not have despatched somebody like Sergio (Gor) to be our ambassador, somebody who’s very near the President,” mentioned Rubio.Responding to a query at a media briefing on Sunday, Rubio had mentioned there are silly folks all over the place who say dumb issues. Nonetheless, the travelling US media on Monday dropped at his consideration that the query was concerning the Trump endorsement of the hellhole comment. Rubio mentioned he had assumed that the query on the briefing was about random voices on the market.Rubio additionally mentioned that India had not introduced up the problem of Pakistan mediation within the US-Iran conflict within the assembly that he had with S Jaishankar on Sunday.“India is at all times pointing to the truth that there are armed terrorist teams working from Pakistani territory that concentrate on India. There are at all times issues about that,” the secretary of state mentioned.“However so far as the position they performed as a mediator and a facilitator within the Iran state of affairs, it by no means got here up. I do not suppose they had been complaining about that. I imply, their problem with Pakistan is totally different,” he added.Requested concerning the talks with Iran, he mentioned there was “a reasonably strong factor” on the desk by way of the attainable opening of the Strait of Hormuz, reiterating that there could be some excellent news quickly. He added although that Trump was not in a rush.“He isn’t going to make a foul deal, and the president’s not going to make a foul settlement. So let’s have a look at what occurs. We will give diplomacy each likelihood to succeed earlier than we discover the alternate options,” mentioned Rubio.
