Senator Rand Paul

All these people going off saying, oh, fentanyl's killing people.

I know people have died of fentanyl.

I have a great deal of sympathy.

I know a family lost two sons to fentanyl.

I have sympathy for that.

There's no evidence there's any fentanyl on this boat.

There's no evidence that any fentanyl comes from Venezuela.

Zero.

There is fentanyl come out of Mexico, but since we're blowing these boats up, maybe we're taking our eye off the border in Mexico.

So the whole thing is a pretense and a prelude to war in Venezuela, and I hope it doesn't happen.

The one thing I've always liked about Donald Trump, and the reason I've supported him and still do support him, is that I think his instincts towards less intervention and less foreign war have been sincere.

He's been against the Iraq War for several decades, before it happened and after it happened.

He was against the war in Libya that Obama took us into.

So those were legitimate ideas.

They're a legitimate part of America First.

But this idea of invading Venezuela, I think, comes from the Secretary of State, who's long wanted regime change there.

Now, if you could wave a wand and have regime change where there's adversaries we don't like, we would do it for China.

We would do it for Colombia.

We would do it for all the countries that have tin pot socialist dictators.

But we don't do that because the end result of regime change often is more chaos or chaos worse even than the authoritarianism they live under.