Trump: US Must Restore Law And Order To Venezuela To Hold Elections

I’ll say right off the bat: no US military in Venezuela

Trump says US must restore law and order to Venezuela before elections — opposition leader could only win with his support

President Trump said Venezuela must be restored to “law and order” and economic discipline before any talk of elections, following the dramatic US operation that ended with the arrest of leader Nicholas Maduro.

Speaking to The Post on Sunday, Trump brushed aside questions about backing opposition figures — including leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado — saying none currently command the support needed to lead the country.

“I don’t think she’s got the support of the people that she has to have,” Trump said. “That’s all.”

He also said he was not concerned about the situation in Venezuela drawing the US into a protracted quagmire —  as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I am

Pressed on whether he would support Machado if she won an election, Trump was noncommittal — arguing that Venezuela’s collapse makes elections a secondary concern.

“We should run the country properly,” Trump said.

About Machado, he said, “She could only win an election if I did support her. But I like her very much.”

I don’t know if he’s doing this on purpose or not, you never know with Trump, but, because of the TDS in the US and around the world, if he expressed support for Machado then the TDS infused would be against her.

The president stressed that Venezuela’s economy is on the brink following decades of plunder and mismanagement by the socialists.

“The country is ready to be — it’s literally become a third-world country ready to fail,” he said.

Rather than rushing into elections, Trump said the priority should be stabilizing a nation on the brink — and that it would be a win-win situation for both the US and Venezuela.

As long as there are no US boots on the ground. The country should have a great economy, but, 25 years of socialists have done this.

Meanwhile

Why Trump’s Venezuela Intervention Is Different

Te trappings of law await Nicolás Maduro at the courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan. There is an indictment. There will be prosecutors and defense counsel, a judge and briefs. In the end, when all is said and done, and if the Trump administration does not colossally bungle this case, there will probably be a conviction and a hefty prison sentence.

But we cannot lose sight of what has brought us here — to the surreal and yet somehow entirely foreseeable situation in which the Trump administration has illegally abducted the leader of Venezuela, a country that has engaged in no hostilities with the United States, without even the appearance of an effort to enlist the support of the American public or their elected representatives in Congress, and without even the semblance of a stated plan for how the country will be governed.

You can read the whole thing, but, this is just the TDS finding ways to say Orange Man Bad. Had Biden or Harris done this they’d be perfectly OK with getting Maduro. Remember when Obama sent the military into a sovereign nation, Pakistan, which was a nominal ally of the US (a shitty one) to get Bin Laden? Republicans were just fine with that. Obama dropping bombs and drone strikes and stuff in multiple countries in the Middle East and Africa, killing jihadis? Republicans cheered that. And you have all sorts of Democrats protesting in the street, but, you know who is missing? Venezuelans. Except those who are TDA. Venezuelans love Maduro being gone.