I’m wondering how Democrats are going to take this
US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country
Trump saying hello to Judge Sara
The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack.
Multiple explosions rang out and low-flying aircraft swept through Caracas, the capital, as Maduro’s government immediately accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations. The Venezuelan government called it an “imperialist attack” and urged citizens to take to the streets.
It was not immediately clear who was running the country, and Maduro’s whereabouts were not immediately known. Trump announced the developments on Truth Social shortly after 4:30 a.m. ET. Under Venezuelan law the vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, would take power. There was no confirmation that had happened, though she did issue a statement after the strike.
“We do not know the whereabouts of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores,” Rodriguez said. “We demand proof of life.”
Will Judge Boasberg demand he be released?
The legal implications of the strike under U.S. law were not immediately clear. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted on X that he had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who briefed him on the strike. Rubio told Lee that Maduro “has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States.”
The White House did not immediately respond to queries on where Maduro and his wife were being flown to. Maduro was indicted in March 2020 on “narco-terrorism” conspiracy charges in the Southern District of New York.
Maybe it’s time to put Edmundo González Urrutia in the Venezuelan president’s office, since he most likely won the last election. Or hold new elections and let Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado run.
Now we await the moonbats to go moonbat over this. Oh, and this
Yeah, right… NO. MORE. WAR. Sheesh; nothing but a bloody pirate.
America at war again!! Yay!!
Another big distraction!!
No war, but it is a sad day in the West when a Communist dictator is taken for a helicopter ride and the helicopter lands with him in it.
Next, do Putin!!
You mean like you’ve been “doing” Zelensky and Maduro?
No, thank you.
So, “president” trump pardoned former Honduran Presdent, Juan Orlando Hernandez, a convicted drug trafficker (narcoterrorist) for shipping tons of cocaine into the U.S., but then kidnapped President Maduro and his wife for the same crime. How much did Fat Donnie get from Hernandez? Will he pardon Maduro for “considerations”?
President Joe Biden extradited Hernandez for drug trafficking. Hernandez was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in U.S. prison, before trump inexplicably pardoned him.
“The Hernández presidency was marked by an increase in the influence of conservative evangelical organizations on government decisions. Compulsory prayer at the beginning of the day was instituted in schools and the police and military. At the beginning of 2021, the total prohibition of abortion and same-sex marriage was included in the Constitution.”
America has an illegitimate “president”. He needs to go.
Our spittle-flecking mad socialist wrote:
So, while the drug trafficking under Señor Hernández was a very, very bad thing, much of what he did was pretty good.
Donald Trump was elected by both a popular vote plurality and an electoral college majority; the people of the United States, in a free and fair election, chose the Master of Mar-a-Lago to be our 47th President. I get that you oppose his policies, and even him breathing in oxygen, but how does your opposition to his policies make him “an illegitimate ‘president'”?
And don’t worry: in three years and 17 days, he won’t be President anymore.
He is president in violaton of our 14th Amendment. He will likely resign and have new President Vance pardon him.
You can support his every effort and whim if you wish. Our Senators and Representatives don’t have balls (except for MTG!)
BTW, do you support government-mandated christian prayer, including in public schools? You’ve made clear you favor government-mandated bans on abortion and same-sex marriage.
Except for his killing of a thousands of Americans, Señor Hernández did good by forcing Hondurans to pray, banned abortion and same-sex marriages.
Piggy wishcasted: “He is president in violaton [sic] of our 14th Amendment. He will likely resign and have new President Vance pardon him.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I see your Somali overlords at the Quality Learing Center have educated you well. While you’re busy indulging your delusions, you might as well transition into a hyena.
There actually is precedent for this, in the capture of Panama strongman Manuel Noriega in 1990. He was put on trial in the United States on drug trafficking charges, convicted, and imprisoned. I’m not saying that I support this action, but am pointing out that we’ve done this before. It will be good if Señor Maduro is removed from power, but there’s no guarantee that we’ve Made Venezuela Great Again.
But, for consistencies sake, shouldn’t people like Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin, Trudy Rubin, and the rest of the neocons support this action by the President of the United States?
Mr Dana asks: “But, for consistencies sake, shouldn’t people like Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin, Trudy Rubin, and the rest of the neocons support this action by the President of the United States?”
Yes. Unless they learned their lesson from the iraqi debacle. (had to look up “Trudy Rubin”)
Anyway, is the invasion and regime change of sovereign nations like Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia, Congo, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Panama, Venezuela etc, a “conservative’ value?
Regime change?
You went from “No Kings” to defending Maduro, a brutal, illegitimate dictator who subverted democracy to hold on to power, in about zero seconds flat. BTW, this is the same dictator against whom BIDEN — you know, a DEMOCRAT — raised a $50 million bounty.
You are so lost. All your flailing about in this thread is nothing more than the pathetic cries of a desperate piggy, about ready to be taken away by the men in the white coats.
trump said the U.S. will occupy and “run” Venezuela to get the oil flowing again to make the “Venezuelan people, happy, rich and safe”.
What could go wrong?
So, is Colombia next? Why waste the huuuge flotilla in the Caribbean?
Donnie going rogue at the lectern!
“There is no crime in Washvngton, D.C.”
“We saved Los Angeles!”
“The gangs raped and murdered women and children!”
“They murdered Jocelyn”.
“Maduro sent them from prisons, jails, mental institutions and insane asylums”.
trump is mentally ill.
Delusional Piggy: “trump [sic] is mentally ill.”
Oh, my aching sides. You really are off your meds today, aren’t you? You’d better get back on your dosage before you hurt yourself.
And to top it off, Rimjob who spends his every waking hour ranting about about Trump, declares Trump is the one who is mentally ill.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47 ComingtoGetcha!
I’ve been told that 25% of leftists are on medication for mental illness. I find this statistic disturbing. That means the other 75% are running around unmedicated.
Gen. Dan “Raizin” Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chief… in 2018, according to Trump, Caine told him, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” Allegedly, he claimed that ISIS could be defeated in a week. Trump also said that Caine was wearing a MAGA hat at the time.”
That explains trump choosing him.
— Kurt Schlichter
Bwaha! Lolgfy Losers!
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
Likely the Venezuelan military is in charge in Venezuela now. It is obvious the USA had a LOT of inside help to pull this off. Seems the Venezuelans were done with their fling with communism and wanted to return to Pre-Chavez prosperity and freedom. One might even say that the Venezuelans freed themselves with a small amount of US assistance.
I wonder how long the people of NYC will need to suffer before they come to their senses.
Good news Democrats: No more drug boats being bombed. You got your wish.
More good news: All those Venezuelans applying for asylum can return home now. The crisis they were fleeing has ended.
Let’s hope the U.S. occupation of Venezuela works out better than our occupation of Iraq.
trump saId the word “oIl” 10s of tImes and elections and democracy, about zero.
Now do Obama’s war on Libya, which was specifically to make sure oil continued to flow to the UK and France. And, how’d that work out? The rise of ISIS and the Benghazi debacle, leading to destabilization in Iraq and Syria and Yemen with ISIS
The current thought on this is that Libya was overthrown because Khadafy didn’t pay the right bribes to Hillary. They were already cooperating with the USA during the Bush administration. Hillary had a very large vindictive streak for anyone who opposed her. I doubt Obama cared about Libya until he saw American diplomats being dragged through the streets on the news.
“We came, we saw, he died…” Hillary cackled.
NATO, with Obama’s support, went into Libya, and it ended badly. Just as did our debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Do you find those bad decisions somehow justify our attack on Venezuela? Strange reasoning there, William.
Weird how you conflate Maduro with Venezuela. When he was arrested, Venezuelans were out in the streets celebrating.
There was no attack on Venezuela. Only the arrest of an imposter, whose legitimacy wasn’t recognized by NUMEROUS countries.
King Donald the First didn’t mention Maria Machado who stole “his” Nobel Peace Prize. LOL.
She probably would not agree with his plan to steal all of Venezuela’s oil riches for his billionaire buds.
He’s smart to leave her out of it, because then you lefties would be against her.
You MAGAts are wrong again, William!
Wrote Ms Machado:
Those of us who elected Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the legitimate President of Venezuela, who must immediately assume his constitutional mandate and be recognized as Commander-in-Chief of the National Armed Forces by all the officers and soldiers who comprise it.
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
At last an American President who actually is doing what he promised to do when we elected him. While the liberal communist socialists whin like babies over the positive steps taken by our great president to rid our country and the world of these Narco Terrorists, “We The People” celebrate his actions!
Did trump promise to invade nations to take the oil??
Why spend a trillion a year on the “Department of War” unless you use it??
“Defense” is for weak pussies. “War” is for real strongmen!
Venezuela was wasting our vast Orinoco oil resources!! d
BTW, why did Donald the Great pardon the Honduran narcoterrorist?
…the best part for me will be the unending screeching by my commie acquaintances…
and all the inauthentic rhetorical questions…
Fat Jeff,
You keep going on about oil. Why? If Trump is after oil, GOOD. He will stabilize the principal energy source used by the world. That is not a bad thing. As to violating a law, Biden stole an election, at least one, you were not offended.
killer dave McQuack,
Fat Donnie tried to steal the 2020 election but was caught. He should be in prison, and may still make it if he lives long enough.
Fat Jeff,
You are stupid enough to make a threat against the president?
trump on Mexico this AM…
“We could be politically correct and be nice and say, ‘Oh, yes, she is.’ No, no. She’s very, you know, she’s very frightened of the cartels. They’re running Mexico. And I’ve asked her numerous times, ‘Would you like us to take out the cartels?’ … Something is gonna have to be done with Mexico.”
This exposes trump and MAGA for what they are. Warmongers.
Donnie is at 34% approval. Epstein. Healthcare. Ukraine. Midterms.
He needed a war. He needed a victory.
Yeah, Rimjob. Everything is going as planned.
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
Thanks for the revelation.
Only you can stop it now.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47 Coming To Get Ya!
Keep reading the latest meme in the leftardosphere that Trump is gonna be impeached and convicted by April 27.
So you can relax, Rimjob. All your copy&pasting is gonna pay off.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA Motherfucker!
What war? There were no casualties, other than whatever shred of credibility you had left.
Besides, when the military under Bush 41 nabbed Noriega, you were all for it. And Noriega’s capture took weeks, with over 1,000 civilian casualties.
I love it when the sanctimonious Hate Has No Home Here brigade openly wallows in their hatred toward Trump, like the little piggies they are.