{"id":9889,"date":"2025-07-23T23:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:37:34","slug":"miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Moscow, Marco, and the Maneuver \u2013 How Rubio Defused Trump\u2019s Most Delicate Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is one of those footnotes in history that ought to make a loud bang \u2013 but hardly anyone heard it. Buried in a congressional report, overseen by none other than Senator Marco Rubio, lie details of an encounter that carries serious explosive potential for both the then-businessman Donald Trump and today\u2019s president: an allegedly awkward moment between Trump and a Russian beauty queen \u2013 Miss Moscow \u2013 at an event already permeated by intelligence interests at the time. But instead of bringing the scene to public light, something else happened: Rubio, chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, quietly let it disappear \u2013 with the discretion of a show producer who knows exactly when the curtain should fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scene: Moscow, 2013. Occasion: The Miss Universe pageant, hosted by Donald Trump. In a back room, according to later witness accounts and diplomatic notes, there was said to have been a sensitive exchange between Trump and a Russian contestant \u2013 observed by several people, including at least one Western security officer. The incident was never officially documented, but it appears in internal notes from a staffer that \u2013 after years of delay \u2013 ended up in a congressional report. That report, however, was not used by Rubio to provide clarity. On the contrary: the passage was \u2013 like a refrain that doesn\u2019t fit the theme \u2013 subtly overwritten, buried beneath layers of footnotes. Coldplayed, one might say. The method is reminiscent of the eponymous band: a maximally harmonious tone that drowns everything out. No outrage, no revelation, no direct questions. Rubio, who once portrayed himself as a foreign policy hawk, apparently chose to shelve the file in this case. Why? The explanation seems obvious: The senator from Florida has long since become part of a GOP structure that identifies less with truth than with loyalty. And in that framework, Trump \u2013 Miss Moscow or not \u2013 is not seen as an embarrassment, but as a pillar of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what if the report had landed in different hands? What if, for example, the Democratic committee chair had brought the episode to the public? What if the questions had been asked that have been lingering in the air ever since: Who was the woman? Who knew about it? And why would a man flirting with presidential ambitions travel to Moscow with such exposed vulnerabilities \u2013 just months before early contacts with Russian officials began via Flynn, Page, and others? That Marco Rubio did not ask these questions is no accident \u2013 it is political calculation. The report was his stage, Trump his future boss. And while America\u2019s capital continues to shuffle through a reality-TV drama with a new twist every day, this particular chapter went unnoticed. A stroke of luck for Trump. A loss for the public. In Washington, a lot is in flux right now. And as the swamp reorders itself, the true scriptwriters behind the scenes begin to show. Some delete scenes before anyone sees them. Others applaud \u2013 and pretend nothing ever happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Investigative journalism requires courage, conviction \u2013 and your support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/unterstuetzen-sie-unser-arbeit\/\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Support Kaizen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"popcorn-panic,topstory,trump-s-world\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1753313500\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es ist eine dieser Fu\u00dfnoten der Geschichte, die eigentlich laut knallen m\u00fcsste \u2013 doch kaum jemand h\u00f6rte sie. Vergraben in einem Kongressbericht, betreut von niemand Geringerem als Senator Marco Rubio, schlummern Details einer Begegnung, die sowohl f\u00fcr den damaligen Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Donald Trump als auch f\u00fcr den heutigen Pr\u00e4sidenten von gr\u00f6\u00dftem Sprengstoff ist: ein angeblich peinlicher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79,7,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popcorn-panic","category-topstory","category-trump-s-world"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Hofmann","author_link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste - The Kaizen Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Es ist eine dieser Fu\u00dfnoten der Geschichte, die eigentlich laut knallen m\u00fcsste \u2013 doch kaum jemand h\u00f6rte sie. Vergraben in einem Kongressbericht, betreut von niemand Geringerem als Senator Marco Rubio, schlummern Details einer Begegnung, die sowohl f\u00fcr den damaligen Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Donald Trump als auch f\u00fcr den heutigen Pr\u00e4sidenten von gr\u00f6\u00dftem Sprengstoff ist:\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Es ist eine dieser Fu\u00dfnoten der Geschichte, die eigentlich laut knallen m\u00fcsste \u2013 doch kaum jemand h\u00f6rte sie. Vergraben in einem Kongressbericht, betreut von niemand Geringerem als Senator Marco Rubio, schlummern Details einer Begegnung, die sowohl f\u00fcr den damaligen Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Donald Trump als auch f\u00fcr den heutigen Pr\u00e4sidenten von gr\u00f6\u00dftem Sprengstoff ist:\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Kaizen Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rainer.hofmann.2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-23T21:31:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-25T22:37:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"508\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rainer Hofmann\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rainer Hofmann\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rainer Hofmann\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7d3fc7346e2501a389ea3daa48b99ad0\"},\"headline\":\"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-23T21:31:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-25T22:37:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":521,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1\",\"articleSection\":[\"Popcorn Panic\",\"Topstory\",\"Trumpland\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/\",\"name\":\"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste - The Kaizen Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-23T21:31:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-25T22:37:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7d3fc7346e2501a389ea3daa48b99ad0\"},\"description\":\"Es ist eine dieser Fu\u00dfnoten der Geschichte, die eigentlich laut knallen m\u00fcsste \u2013 doch kaum jemand h\u00f6rte sie. Vergraben in einem Kongressbericht, betreut von niemand Geringerem als Senator Marco Rubio, schlummern Details einer Begegnung, die sowohl f\u00fcr den damaligen Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Donald Trump als auch f\u00fcr den heutigen Pr\u00e4sidenten von gr\u00f6\u00dftem Sprengstoff ist:\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1\",\"width\":900,\"height\":508},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Kaizen Blog\",\"description\":\"Investigativer Journalismus\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7d3fc7346e2501a389ea3daa48b99ad0\",\"name\":\"Rainer Hofmann\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"\\\/\\\/www.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/21e5b26d4f12b21206d8094d7aea4ab6?s=96&#038;r=g&#038;d=initials\",\"url\":\"\\\/\\\/www.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/21e5b26d4f12b21206d8094d7aea4ab6?s=96&#038;r=g&#038;d=initials\",\"contentUrl\":\"\\\/\\\/www.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/21e5b26d4f12b21206d8094d7aea4ab6?s=96&#038;r=g&#038;d=initials\",\"caption\":\"Rainer Hofmann\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaizen-blog.org\\\/en\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste - The Kaizen Blog","description":"Es ist eine dieser Fu\u00dfnoten der Geschichte, die eigentlich laut knallen m\u00fcsste \u2013 doch kaum jemand h\u00f6rte sie. Vergraben in einem Kongressbericht, betreut von niemand Geringerem als Senator Marco Rubio, schlummern Details einer Begegnung, die sowohl f\u00fcr den damaligen Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Donald Trump als auch f\u00fcr den heutigen Pr\u00e4sidenten von gr\u00f6\u00dftem Sprengstoff ist:","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste","og_description":"Es ist eine dieser Fu\u00dfnoten der Geschichte, die eigentlich laut knallen m\u00fcsste \u2013 doch kaum jemand h\u00f6rte sie. Vergraben in einem Kongressbericht, betreut von niemand Geringerem als Senator Marco Rubio, schlummern Details einer Begegnung, die sowohl f\u00fcr den damaligen Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Donald Trump als auch f\u00fcr den heutigen Pr\u00e4sidenten von gr\u00f6\u00dftem Sprengstoff ist:","og_url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/","og_site_name":"The Kaizen Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rainer.hofmann.2025\/","article_published_time":"2025-07-23T21:31:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-25T22:37:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":508,"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Rainer Hofmann","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rainer Hofmann","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/"},"author":{"name":"Rainer Hofmann","@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/7d3fc7346e2501a389ea3daa48b99ad0"},"headline":"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste","datePublished":"2025-07-23T21:31:40+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-25T22:37:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/"},"wordCount":521,"commentCount":1,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1","articleSection":["Popcorn Panic","Topstory","Trumpland"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/","url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/","name":"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste - The Kaizen Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1","datePublished":"2025-07-23T21:31:40+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-25T22:37:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/7d3fc7346e2501a389ea3daa48b99ad0"},"description":"Es ist eine dieser Fu\u00dfnoten der Geschichte, die eigentlich laut knallen m\u00fcsste \u2013 doch kaum jemand h\u00f6rte sie. Vergraben in einem Kongressbericht, betreut von niemand Geringerem als Senator Marco Rubio, schlummern Details einer Begegnung, die sowohl f\u00fcr den damaligen Gesch\u00e4ftsmann Donald Trump als auch f\u00fcr den heutigen Pr\u00e4sidenten von gr\u00f6\u00dftem Sprengstoff ist:","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1","width":900,"height":508},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/miss-moskau-marco-und-das-manoever-wie-rubio-trumps-heikelste-episode-ausbremste\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Miss Moskau, Marco und das Man\u00f6ver \u2013 Wie Rubio Trumps heikelste Episode ausbremste"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/","name":"The Kaizen Blog","description":"Investigative Journalism","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/7d3fc7346e2501a389ea3daa48b99ad0","name":"Rainer Hofmann","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/21e5b26d4f12b21206d8094d7aea4ab6?s=96&#038;r=g&#038;d=initials","url":"\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/21e5b26d4f12b21206d8094d7aea4ab6?s=96&#038;r=g&#038;d=initials","contentUrl":"\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/21e5b26d4f12b21206d8094d7aea4ab6?s=96&#038;r=g&#038;d=initials","caption":"Rainer Hofmann"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org"],"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Social-Kaizen56.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2098,"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/ein-neuer-ausschluss-wie-marco-rubio-mit-trumps-rueckendeckung-chinesische-studierende-ins-visier-nimmt\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":0},"title":"A New Exclusion \u2013 How Marco Rubio, Backed by Trump, Is Targeting Chinese Students","author":"Rainer Hofmann","date":"May 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Es war ein Satz mit politischer Sprengkraft \u2013 und er fiel nicht in Peking, sondern in Washington: Am Mittwoch k\u00fcndigte US-Au\u00dfenminister Marco Rubio an, die Vereinigten Staaten w\u00fcrden beginnen, die Visa chinesischer Studierender zu entziehen \u2013 vor allem jener, die in \u201ekritischen Bereichen\u201c eingeschrieben seien oder eine Verbindung zur Kommunistischen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Public Affairs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Public Affairs","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/category\/rights-living\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/china-visum-rubio-trump.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/china-visum-rubio-trump.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/china-visum-rubio-trump.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/china-visum-rubio-trump.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/china-visum-rubio-trump.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6744,"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-doppelte-moral-des-einwanderungsdiskurses-marco-rubio-und-die-schatten-der-vergangenheit\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":1},"title":"The Double Standard of the Immigration Debate \u2013 Marco Rubio and the Shadows of the Past","author":"Rainer Hofmann","date":"June 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Es sind die biografischen Details, die das politische Ged\u00e4chtnis einer Nation zum Wanken bringen k\u00f6nnen. Besonders dann, wenn sie im krassen Widerspruch zu den eigenen Forderungen stehen. Der republikanische Senator Marco Rubio, ein lautstarker Bef\u00fcrworter harter Einwanderungsgesetze und gl\u00fchender Verteidiger der Abschottungspolitik unter Donald Trump, steht nun vor einem Spiegel,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Topstory&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Topstory","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/category\/topstory\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rubio.webp?fit=850%2C508&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rubio.webp?fit=850%2C508&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rubio.webp?fit=850%2C508&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rubio.webp?fit=850%2C508&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21825,"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/rubio-als-held-in-deutschland-kursiert-eine-verdrehte-geschichte-und-sie-ist-einfach-unsinn\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":2},"title":"Rubio as a hero? Power struggles in the Trump administration? A distorted story is circulating in Germany \u2013 and it is simply nonsense","author":"Rainer Hofmann","date":"November 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Gerade in Deutschland verbreitet sich ein Bild, das mit der Realit\u00e4t in Washington wenig zu tun hat: Marco Rubio als der Mann, der in letzter Sekunde einen f\u00fcr die Ukraine fatalen Plan entsch\u00e4rft habe. Ein Au\u00dfenminister als letzter Schutzwall gegen Kreml-Forderungen. Ein Republikaner, der sich angeblich gegen Jared Kushner, Steve\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Topstory&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Topstory","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/category\/topstory\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kaizennewsday-2025-11-27T140324.011.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kaizennewsday-2025-11-27T140324.011.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kaizennewsday-2025-11-27T140324.011.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kaizennewsday-2025-11-27T140324.011.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":29139,"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/als-amerika-zoegert-ruestet-europa-innerlich-auf-muenchen-zwischen-russland-trump-und-der-angst-vor-einem-falschen-frieden\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":3},"title":"As America Hesitates, Europe Arms Itself Internally - Munich Between Russia, Trump and the Fear of a False Peace","author":"Rainer Hofmann","date":"February 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Vor vier Jahren reisten amerikanische Regierungsvertreter mit Satellitenbildern und abgefangenen Funkspr\u00fcchen nach M\u00fcnchen. Sie warnten vor einem unmittelbar bevorstehenden russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine. Viele europ\u00e4ische Spitzenpolitiker winkten ab. Wladimir Putin bluffe, hie\u00df es damals. Wenige Tage sp\u00e4ter begann der Krieg, der nun in sein f\u00fcnftes Jahr geht. In diesem\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;EU News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"EU News","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/category\/eu-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kaizennewsday-2026-02-15T041352.281.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kaizennewsday-2026-02-15T041352.281.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kaizennewsday-2026-02-15T041352.281.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kaizennewsday-2026-02-15T041352.281.webp?fit=905%2C500&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10883,"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/trump-verschaerft-nukleardrohung-gegen-russland-u-boote-als-signal-in-der-ukraine-krise\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":4},"title":"Trump escalates nuclear threat against Russia - Submarines as a signal in the Ukraine crisis","author":"Rainer Hofmann","date":"August 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump hat die Welt erneut in Atem gehalten. Inmitten der eskalierenden Spannungen zwischen Washington und Moskau erkl\u00e4rte der US-Pr\u00e4sident am Freitag auf seiner Plattform Truth Social, er habe \u201ezwei nukleare U-Boote\u201c in die \u201egeeigneten Regionen\u201c verlegen lassen \u2013 als Reaktion auf apokalyptische Drohungen des fr\u00fcheren russischen Pr\u00e4sidenten Dmitri Medwedew.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Spotlight&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Spotlight","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/category\/spotlight\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin38.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin38.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin38.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Kaizen-Blog-Online-Magazin38.webp?fit=900%2C508&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2913,"url":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wie-eine-ultrarechte-verschwoerungsagitatorin-den-us-sicherheitsrat-mitlenkt-man-kann-nur-noch-den-kopf-schuetteln\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":5},"title":"How a Far-Right Conspiracy Theorist Is Now Steering the U.S. National Security Council  -  You Can\u2019t Help but Shake Your Head","author":"Rainer Hofmann","date":"May 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Es beginnt mit einer Personalie, endet aber in einer Ersch\u00fctterung institutioneller Grundfesten: Mike Waltz, der nationale Sicherheitsberater von Pr\u00e4sident Donald Trump, wird entlassen. Kein Skandal. Keine \u00f6ffentliche Abrechnung. Nur eine Mitteilung \u2013 und eine gleichzeitige Nominierung zum UN-Botschafter. Eine stille Degradierung, so sachlich wie ein Eintrag in einem Kalender. Was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Dark America&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Dark America","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/category\/dark-america\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/loomer-trump.webp?fit=988%2C504&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/loomer-trump.webp?fit=988%2C504&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/loomer-trump.webp?fit=988%2C504&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/loomer-trump.webp?fit=988%2C504&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}