Rich Lowry
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And I think he genuinely hates this regime.
And I also think temperamentally we've seen it, especially in the second term here.
This is a guy who loves exercising power and loves doing it at maximum discretion.
And if you're commander in chief of the United States, what does that lead you to?
You're going to lean on the U.S.
military.
And I think just the operation against Maduro and the lightning success of that led him to believe this could be similarly successful.
Now, this is a much tougher nut to crack and we'll see how it how it turns out.
But I think this is this is a Trump thing.
He wasn't talked into it by anyone.
He wasn't tricked either.
He's the commander in chief of the United States.
He's the decider.
And if he didn't want to do this, he just would have said no.
Of course he's the decider.
So it's not— No, but that's not the same thing, Rich.
But there are people trying to talk him out of it.
Yes, he did.
And people trying to talk him into it.
And he makes the ultimate—