Secretary of State Marco Rubio hit the Sunday networks after the US captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Rubio perfectly handled George Stephanopoulos as the Democrat hack pressed him about the US’s legal authority to ‘run’ Venezuela.
The Army’s Delta Force captured Maduro early Saturday morning after President Trump ordered military strikes on the South American country.
According to Reuters, Delta Force created an exact replica of Maduro’s safe house and practiced how they would enter and capture him. The CIA had an asset on the ground in Venezuela who infiltrated Maduro’s inner circle.
The asset monitored Maduro, which helped the Army’s Delta Force locate and extract him.
Maduro was indicted on four counts by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York.
Read the indictment here.
The grand jury indicted Maduro, his wife, Cilia Flores, and four others on four counts: Narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.
As expected, the Democrats and their stenographers in the media are claiming President Trump did not have the authority to order strikes on Venezuela and arrest Maduro without congressional approval.
Trump also said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela and quarantine their oil until certain favorable conditions are met.
“Let me ask this again. What is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela?” Stephanopoulos asked Rubio.
“Well, I explained to you what our goals are and how we’re going to use the leverage to make it happen. As far as what our legal authority is, is on the quarantine -it’s very simple. We have court orders. These are sanctioned boats. We get orders from courts to go after and seize these sanctions. So, I don’t know. Is a court not a legal authority?” Rubio said.
Stephanopoulos just couldn’t handle Rubio’s assertion that the US has the legal authority to seize sanctioned boats because of court orders.
Rubio stood his ground and destroyed Stephanopoulos.
“I’m obviously very intricately involved in these policies. And by the way, very intricately involved in moving forward and what we hope to see some of these changes being addressed,” Rubio said.
“Unfortunately, the person that was there before who was not the legitimate president of the country was someone we could not work with, was someone that we could not. He had already suckered the Biden administration a couple of years ago!” Rubio added.
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