Dems Strike Back After Trump Invasion
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What did Donald Trump claim about the U.S. running Venezuela and seizing its oil?
Democrats and political leaders are responding to Donald Trump's unlawful invasion of Venezuela and Donald Trump's press conference from Mar-a-Lago, where Trump says the United States will now be running Venezuela, that the purpose of the invasion of Venezuela was to seize the oil and take it over for the American oil companies. Donald Trump also threw the main Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, under the bus. He says that she's a nice lady, but that the people in Venezuela don't respect her. She was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, who then praised Donald Trump, and now he's throwing her under the bus and says she shouldn't run it. Donald Trump says that he and the United States will be running a country of 28 million people right now.
We'll see what the Venezuelan people are saying about that. But let's talk about what Congress is saying about that. Democrats in the House and Democrats in the Senate and independents in the House and the Senate are calling this an unlawful invasion, that Donald Trump did not get the congressional authority that was required of this. And while Maduro is a dictator, which inherently means he's not legitimate, the United States can't just be engaged in regime change to seize oil and to run countries. It has a massive destabilizing effect on the world. Number two, it's just a war crime and it is unlawful in general. And also it gives a permission structure for China to invade Taiwan, for Russia to continue its atrocities.
in Ukraine, for Israel to continue atrocities in Gaza. It provides a permission structure right now for tyrants and dictators to continue about their authoritarian reign. So here's what AOC posted. She goes, it's not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn't have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It's about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn't, especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing health care costs. Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego, a veteran himself who. saw close friends of his die during war, says the neocons have moved their focus to the Caribbean. And he's responding to someone who goes, if I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I would be concerned at least a little bit, Rubio said of Cuba.
Because Donald Trump during his disastrous press conference threatened Cuba, Donald Trump threatened Colombia. And Donald Trump said that he was instituting a Don Roe doctrine, he said, to control and with a iron fist the Western Hemisphere and to treat every other country as a vassal state in the Western Hemisphere. Senator Gallego goes on to say, I said Trump wanted to start a war and now he's saying we're going to occupy Venezuela. Enough, I authored a war powers resolution to hold the Trump administration accountable accountable for its illegal actions in Venezuela. I'm going to force a vote. Only Congress has the authority to take this country to war. Ruben Gallego also says, so we went to war to capture Maduro to occupy Venezuela.
That's Donald Trump's own words. That's what Trump said during the press conference. We want to seize the oil for the big oil companies. That's why we're there. The oil belongs to us. And then again, he threw the opposition leader under the bus. Senator Gallego responds to Carrie Lake. Remember her? She's still out there as a member of the Trump regime. And she goes, you're a part. You are a part of a member of the Mexican cartel family. You're a fraud. No one is surprised by your take, to which Senator Gallego says, I am a US Marine combat veteran that saw his best friend die because of bootlickers like you. This line of attack is exactly why you lost by the most of any GOP candidate in 2024. Another veteran, pilot, astronaut, who the Trump regime is attacking as well and launching criminal investigations into Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, put out the following statement.
The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler. and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation.
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