Marco Rubio Tweets 'Den of Thieves' Bible Verse as GOP, Trump Lawyers Seek to Block Biden Win

<div class="filed-under flex-xs flex-wrap ai-c" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1.5px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/bible" class="topic" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 9px 20px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">BIBLE</span></a></div><div class="article-body v_text paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 35px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: both; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 38px;">Marco Rubio Tweets 'Den of Thieves' Bible Verse as GOP, Trump Lawyers Seek to Block Biden Win</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span class="author" style="font-size: 15px; text-transform: uppercase; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: bold; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/authors/tom-batchelor" class="author-name" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; 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margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">Republican Senator <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" title="Marco rubio" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">Marco Rubio</a> has tweeted a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/bible" target="_blank" title="Bible" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">Bible</a> verse referencing a "den of thieves" a day after the <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/gop" target="_blank" title="GOP" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">GOP</a> held a press conference packed with contentious claims including that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" title="Donald Trump" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">Donald Trump</a> had "won [the election] by a landslide."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">At the press conference on Thursday, Sidney Powell, a lawyer on Trump's election legal team, made several baseless claims including allegations of corruption at the "highest level of our government."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">Her comments were criticized as having gone one step further than previous election rigging claims from White House officials, raising eyebrows even among right-leaning figures. Newspaper pundits accused her of going "buckwild" with even more outlandish claims than Trump attorney <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/rudy-giuliani" target="_blank" title="Rudy Giuliani" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">Rudy Giuliani</a> had managed at previous press events.</p><div id="dfp-ad-right2-wrapper" class="dfp-tag-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; clear: left; min-height: 250px;"><div id="dfp-ad-right2" class="dfp-tag-wrapper mpu-only unstick" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; 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margin: 0px auto; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; max-width: 500px;"><div class="code" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border-style: none none none solid; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: auto !important; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 446px; font-style: italic;">Has this house which bears my name become in your eyes a den of thieves?<br style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Jeremiah 7:11</p>— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1329752446575448070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">November 20, 2020</a></blockquote></div></div></figure><div class="promo-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">At that event, Powell called alleged election fraud "stunning, heartbreaking, infuriating, and one of the most unpatriotic acts I can even imagine for people in this country to have participated in."</p><figure class="imageBox" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; clear: both; position: relative; height: auto; max-width: inherit !important;"><div class="innerBox" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: auto; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 526.922px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; max-width: 100%; height: 0px;"><picture class="mapping-embed" width="790" height="527" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; 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outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><img loading="lazy" class="mapping-embed imgPhoto" id="i1673804" src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=https%3A%2F%2Fd.newsweek.com%2Fen%2Ffull%2F1673804%2Frudy-giuliani-sidney-powell.jpg%3Fw%3D790%26f%3Dab87d88080413b891f28e904a12ec7f5" alt="Rudy Giuliani Sidney Powell" title="Rudy Giuliani Sidney Powell" width="790" height="527" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px; height: auto; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: bottom;"></picture></div><figcaption class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 10px 15px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="cap" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Rudy Giuliani points to a map as he speaks to the press about various lawsuits related to the 2020 election, inside the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC. on November 19, 2020. President Donald Trump, who has not been seen publicly in several days, continues to push baseless claims about election fraud and dispute the results of the 2020 United States presidential election. Also pictured, at center, is attorney Sidney Powell.</span><span class="credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 5px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: black; text-transform: uppercase; display: block; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px;">DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES</span></figcaption></figure><div id="dfp-ad-lazyads7-wrapper" class="dfp-tag-wrapper dfp-ad-lazy" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; clear: left; min-height: 250px;"><div id="dfp-ad-lazyads7" class="dfp-tag-wrapper mpu-only unstick" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">Powell, who joined Trump's legal team in the weeks after the election, continued: "I want the American public to know right now that we will not be intimidated. American patriots are fed up with the corruption from the local level to the highest level of our government and ... we are going to clean this mess up now.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">"President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom."</p><figure class="fullCode" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none 0px; padding: 5px 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; clear: both; overflow: hidden; height: auto; max-width: inherit !important;"><div class="innerBox" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px auto; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; max-width: 500px;"><div class="code" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border-style: none none none solid; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: auto !important; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 446px; font-style: italic;">"We will not be intimidated...We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom."—Sidney Powell <a href="https://t.co/8KCEOGuL7w" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">pic.twitter.com/8KCEOGuL7w</a></p>— GOP (@GOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1329490975266398210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-left: 0px none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 34, 16); border-image: initial; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: inherit;">November 19, 2020</a></blockquote></div></div></figure><div id="dfp-ad-lazyads8-wrapper" class="dfp-tag-wrapper dfp-ad-lazy" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; clear: left; min-height: 250px;"><div id="dfp-ad-lazyads8" class="dfp-tag-wrapper mpu-only unstick" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">Carlson said Powell had been invited on his show, but that she rebuffed the offer and failed to provide any evidence for vote-rigging claims.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">"Whether or not you think this election is already over, until we know the answers to those questions conclusively and we can agree on them, this country will not be united," he wrote.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">Frank Luntz, the pollster and pundit, responding to Powell's comments, wrote: "This isn't sane stuff, GOP."</p><div id="dfp-ad-lazyads9-wrapper" class="dfp-tag-wrapper dfp-ad-lazy" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; clear: left; min-height: 250px;"><div id="dfp-ad-lazyads9" class="dfp-tag-wrapper mpu-only unstick" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">Rubio's office has been approached for comment on the tweet. At the time of publication. the account has not tweeted since the "den of thieves" post.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px none; list-style: outside none none; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: none 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 790px;">Rubio is up for re-election in 2022 and is considered a frontrunner for the Republican presidential ticket in 2024.</p></div><p><br></p>