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Senator Ruben Gallego is speaking out against the overthrow of Venezuela’s socialist president.
Gallego compared U.S. interventionism in Venezuela with the U.S. waging war in the Middle East, where Gallego deployed in the military.
“I lived through the consequences of an illegal war sold to the American people with lies,” said Gallego. “The American people did not ask for this, Congress did not authorize this, and our service members should not be sent into harm’s way for another unnecessary conflict.”
Gallego promised he would be introducing a bill to deny Trump the ability to intervene in foreign nations without congressional permission.
The senator also said in media interviews that it wasn’t up to the U.S. to determine who maintains power in Venezuela or other countries. Gallego predicted that Venezuelans would implement a more “leftist” government that’s more opposed to the U.S.
“This administration has zero clue what they’re doing. They’re basically following a really dumb man into a very dumb war potentially, and that creates very dumb outcomes,” said Gallego. “We’ve moved on from being the world cop to the world bully.”
Over the weekend the U.S. conducted a strike on Venezuela’s capital. Troops arrested Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife.
Maduro faces federal drug trafficking charges in New York: narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices against the U.S. Maduro pleaded not guilty on Monday.
Contrary to what Gallego claimed, President Donald Trump hasn’t declared war in Venezuela. He confirmed as much in media interviews. Trump said he’s now in charge of Venezuela.
Despite corrections to his narrative, Gallego has continued to push the claim to the media that the U.S. declared war on Venezuela.
“When people are shooting and shooting back, that is war. That’s exactly what occurred here,” said Gallego. “They’re just trying to get people climatized to the idea of us going to war.”
Gallego said that while he believed it was “great” that Maduro was unseated, he doesn’t believe the U.S. had the right to interfere. The senator claimed that the Trump administration misled him in briefings by denying that the U.S. was conducting a regime change or declaring war on Venezuela.
“All this is one more excuse for us to either occupy Venezuela, take their oil, and more importantly you’re violating the Constitution of the United States,” said Gallego.
Gallego also did an interview in Spanish criticizing the Trump administration for providing Venezuela with a pathway to freedom.
Trump advised that Maduro’s successor, Delcy Rodriguez, will serve as interim president so long as she complies with his directives on running Venezuela.
“[I]f she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” the president said in an interview with The Atlantic on Sunday. “You know, rebuilding there and regime change, anything you want to call it, is better than what you have right now. Can’t get any worse.”
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