David McCloskey
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I mean, Trump was pretty blunt when he was asked whether the U.S.
would cut Cuba off from Venezuelan supplies.
He says, yes.
And he had words for the Colombian president, Gustavo Pedro, who he told to, quote, watch his ass, which I think is, again, what would stop the U.S.
from doing this?
If you can use this legal justification of any connection to the drug trade.
Any profiting that you or your associates have done from drugs, if we can then come up with a legal justification that you are a narco-terrorist, we can get an indictment in the United States legal system, and then we can have...
Delta Force serve you with the indictment if you get out of line.
I would be concerned if I were the Colombian president.
Why not?
Again, everyone's got their history books out, Gordon, presumably at this point.
I mean, we've had an era of what was called gunboat diplomacy in the United States, right?
Late 19th, early 20th centuries.
It's interesting that Trump has explicitly highlighted
hung a portrait of William McKinley in the White House.
I don't exactly know where it is or if it had been located somewhere else in the White House and was sort of moved.
Maybe someone listening could inform us.
But I think this sort of symbolic elevation of McKinley- Who expanded America, didn't he?
Who expanded America, presided over the military seizure of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
Right.