In another entertaining, if ridiculous, reaction to the hugely successful operation in Venezuela that saw American forces capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went ballistic over the Trump Administration’s success in capturing the socialist dictator.
Such is what happened in a press conference delivered by Rep. Jeffries (D-NY) on Monday, January 5, during which he angrily berated listeners and the Trump Administration for launching an “unauthorized action” abroad and insisted that the administration is doing its best to start war after war, ignoring the president’s solid record of brokering peaces and ceasefires.
Beginning the angry tirade of a press conference, Jeffries insisted that Democrats are trying to make life better for ordinary Americans as Trump starts wars, saying, “House Democrats are going to continue to fight to lower the high cost of living, fix our broken health care system and make life better for everyday Americans, while Donald Trump and the administration is off starting wars.”
Ignored in that comment is how the falling price of oil helps ordinary Americans far more than anything done by Democrats. In any case, Jeffries continued, insisting that the most recent example of the administration’s warmongering is the “unauthorized military action in Venezuela.”
Rambling and raving about what the operation consisted of, Jeffries insisted that the matter was not a law enforcement action but rather an “unprecedented” military attack, though he declined to explain how a surgical strike was in any way unprecedented. He said, “This wasn’t a law enforcement action. They’re lying to the American people when they say that it was an unprecedented military action.”
Still not done, he angrily ranted about the idea that the Trump Administration replaced the socialist dictator and is involved in running the post-Maduro country, saying, “And yes, in fact, it is the case that Maduro is a bad guy, a dictator, someone who was not the legitimate head of government or head of state in Venezuela. We also know that the future of the Venezuelan people should be determined by the Venezuelan people, not by Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, or Stephen Miller.”
Continuing with that angry tirade against the administration, he said, “Are you kidding me? These people don’t even know how to run the United States of America, and we’re supposed to believe that there’s any credibility to the notion that the Trump administration is going to run Venezuela, a country of 30 million people in South America.”
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Concluding the angry ramble about the operation, Jeffries then seemed to insist that the involvement of oil companies in Venezuela wouldn’t make Americans better off, despite the fact that falling prices of gas are quite helpful to American families in a great many ways. He said, “The American people reject the possibility of another unjustified foreign war that seems to be on the horizon because of Trump’s desire to reward big oil in the United States of America, while continuing to not do a damn thing to make life better for the American people.”
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