Today at 11:00am ET President Donald Trump will deliver remarks and hold a press conference addressing the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.
President Trump is expected to discuss the operation, its international implications, and next steps as details continue to emerge. Livestream Links Below:
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The indictment against Maduro has been unsealed and released – SEE HERE
The indictment against Maduro has been unsealed and released – SEE HERE
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“Today at 11:00am ET President Donald Trump will deliver remarks and hold a press conference addressing the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.”
What are the odds that Ali Khamenei was tuned in to that press conference?
Or Cyril Ramaphosa?
Not good. President of Mexico needs a phone call from SoS Rubio.
“Government officials in Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba criticized the attack.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government “strongly condemns and rejects the military actions” while suggesting the U.S. action was a violation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations. “
Sheinbaum is a Commie Snake but from the protected class. That is why the Cartels selected her.
The Commie Cuban and Columbian Regimes need to be taken out.
I am sure Commie CCP Canada will also condemn the attack.
Colombia is more of a problem than Cuba!
WE are not allowed “touch ” madam presidente and -Z-………..for obvious reason…..
No emojis – *shrugging my shoulder* (who cares what she says)!
The cartel controlled claudia had to strongly condemn the attack if she values her life.
Mexico shipped 80K barrels of oil to Cuba, after the countries Venezuelan supplies were massively reduced, now the latter country has been removed from the tripartite alliance the other two will feel the strain, with Cuba buckling first.
On a different note, for those who wonder what this has to do with domestic issues, it’s estimated over 1 million Venezuelans entered the country under Biden, so most can now be returned, or will self-deport. After all there’s no reason to claim asylum now is there?
As I said on a number of occasions, the division between domestic and foreign policy is largely an artificial construct, that not only doesn’t adequately represent the globalist construct, but has been deliberately used to hinder its dismantling.
“On a different note, for those who wonder what this has to do with domestic issues, it’s estimated over 1 million Venezuelans entered the country under Biden, so most can now be returned, or will self-deport. After all there’s no reason to claim asylum now is there?”
EXTREMELY VALID POINT!
Democrats will fight tooth and nail against that.
Boasberg (and all other corrupt judges) be deployed against anything approaching the sound logic you just presented.
Pres. Trump made a valid point. Maduro and commie friends and predecessors stole American owned companies which built the oil industry in Venezuela and kept it going and they did not take them over nicely at all. Kind of our oil industry in a way. They could have bought the companies out but they just seized them.
One of our 🇺🇸first Venezuela coup was in 2002.
And of course everyone remembers that.😁
Lasted 47 hours.
Pedro Carmona was installed….dissolved National Assembly and
Supreme Court in those hours….. and then everyone knows what
happened then. 🤷♀️ 47 hours.
Makes sense they had to get whoever is in charge of Venezuela
out of the country…one way or another the next try 😁
What I gathered from research..years ago- Chavez got tired
of foreign interests….from around the world….not just US….
taking advantage of their resources and the country….
and made deals-or kicked them out.
Comparison- Venezuela First….kind of like America First 🇺🇸
Foreign entities buying up land, exploiting industry and workers
controlling government….Chavez kicked them out. How novel. /s
Oil countries and other foreign countries didn’t like that.
They have been trying to get back in ever since.🤷♀️
As for our government….each Administration —
new excuse…new attempt…try again.
Rinse…repeat.
This geopolitical commentator nailed it right when
this latest attempt started.. 🥴
Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen): “The US is bombing Venezuela in an actual unprovoked attack. Many excuses will be given over the next days: Narco-terrorism; Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and others “operating” in Venezuela; democracy promotion backed by the Nobel Peace Prize etc.” | XCancel
Wow so coruptommunism is the way Gypsy? Seems Venezuala was a lot richer when there resources wer pedal to a free market. Now they can’t eat.
Oil resources were nationalized under President Carlos Andrés Pérez on January 1, 1976 with the new state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Globalist oil companies continued to exploit the oil in their operations, but the resource itself was codified as belonging to the Venezuelan people. The very novel concept that some profits had to be used to benefit the impoverished citizens vs. exclusively foreign shareholders.
The 2nd nationalization, accomplished in stages under Chavez by 2007 required 60% ownership of incountry operations by the 21 foreign companies then doing business.
Every company agreed to the terms except ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips refusing, who then both left the country, leading to multi-billion dollar international arbitration cases.
The degradation of the infrastructure and overall economic collapse was due to unilateral sanctions imposed by our permanent government.
This tool of unilateral sanctions is used globally by every administration against dozens of countries. Russia was the first to tell Uncle Sam to shove them where the sun don’t shine, and not only survive, but thrive, freeing itself from the American predatory corporate dominated rules based system. Rules that are imposed on others but ignored by Washington as convenient.
The oil does not belong to foreign corporations. Some infrastructure abandoned by ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips resulted in self inflicted losses.
Chinese companies invested over $60 Billion and have active contracts. Will be interesting to see how a directly colonial type administered nation by a foreign (US) country who literally kidnapped their president will deal with their Constitution and ongoing contracts and leases.
A major Trump campaign donor, Paul Singer, was recently awarded CITGO, paying less than $0.50 on the $1.00 of asset value. CITGO was seized, not clear if the asset seizure proceeds are offsetting the claims by ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.
The companies weren’t seized. Only 2 of 21 refused the terms and abandoned their operations.
It is a transactional license to a corporate entity by a sovereign government to exploit resources in any jurisdiction on earth. Don’t like the terms, go somewhere else.
Venezuela is free to enter contracts with anyone they choose for the best deal for their people.
Private corporations whose owners are major donors to our politicians using our military and CIA assets to further their commercial interests is unacceptable. The costs are added to the debt we citizens pay.
Many Venezuelan people escaped to south México as well. Cañcun and Yucatán. Many are friends. They are planning to return Now.
I wondered about this, how many here will return now.
I’m curious about how many want to go home now.
In the back of my mind, as I watch Trump now in Nigeria straightening things out, it’s becoming more clear that he’s trying to solve the issues that wind up driving out population- here!
Because now we need to get rid of a whole lot of them because of what our own situation here is and is heading towards (far less jobs with AI coming).
SO, being the good man that Trump is, he’s trying to send them home to something decent to rebuild their own nations..
It would be nice if many people here simply nicely returned to their own countries- and this then solves housing crisis, for one thing.
I think that the chance that Venezuelans would self deport, if the country started
healing would be sky high. The difference between cost of living between the US
and South America is insane, if my visit to Columbia a few months ago is any indication.
Visited an extremely nice Mall there. Reminded me of being back in the 90s: fully
rented out, upscale shops, full of people. Treated the people that were hosting me to
a meal there in a nice sit down restaurant. Six dined, 4 had drinks. Total bill, including
tip? In US dollars: 64 dollars.
Also: Columbia shares their drugs, but Venezuela sure doesn’t share their oil. I think that
a gallon of gas in Columbia is about 8 dollars. The cars are generally tiny: 1600CC engines
or less.
Democrats were ballistic over deporting Venezuelans here illegally. Now there’s a top brass Venezuelan and his wife on legal grounds, on US soil and the Dims are crying foul?
Oil and drugs as commodities from Latin America have the current spotlight, however the majority of Fentanyl currently killing Americans is coming from Canada. Hopefully PDT gives that eununch Carney about a month to shut down those Canadian Fentanyl labs or the US smokes those places also
Because China is “balls deep” into Canada.
Sharing a border w Canada and having my state ravaged with drugs, I know you are right.
We should end a whole lot of Trade with Canada because of all of this, all of it if we can, we’ve got plenty of lumber here!
Agree with your idea re trade, but blowing up those Canadian labs after PDT makes several loud public warnings could serve to turn more Canadian citizens against their leftist government if Canada doesn’t shut down the labs themselves
No, the collapse of the govt will be used as an asylum justification…
Hokkoda I think the Trump adm. saw that coming and this is why they’ve made it a point to stay that we’re running the country to keep things stable until they can safely transition the newly elected rightful President.
And then they’ll be under our wing and watched very closely as they learn to walk again.
I don’t see how with all this supervision things can go sideways to the degree that that is a valid excuse.
Governments in Europe collapse and reform all the time..
What’s the common denominator across those 3 countries salient to this action by Trump?
Cartels either control or are highly influential in each of them.
So of course the Mexican President has to issue a condemnation —the cartels that run Mexico demand it 🙂
Going joke…..
What is the difference between Ecuador/Colombia who have long
known documented history of drug trafficking-and Venezuela
OIL!
She referencing the UN shows she’s just a puppet for the cartels and the globalists.
Scripted words. No big deal. Claudia knows the truth.
Maybe she is next
Yeah, the reason she can’t go #2 isn’t from constipation.
Kitty never..ever she is….. Sheinbaum !!!!!!Kitty.
These countries are forced to condemn the US, meanwhile they are glad it’s not VZ. The UN is a farce and always have been, they are responsible for 100s of 1000s fleeing their countries and getting killed on their way. It’s all practiced BS they do to be noticed by other countries. And Scheimbaum only stays alive by obeying the cartels
The UN can piss off.
This is how the rest of the world sees the facts:
Kidnapping of a head of state. Undeclared acts of war against military bases and personnel in Venezuela. Piracy/theft of tankers, disrupting ocean commerce and war crimes/murder of civilians on boats on the water without any evidence.
Terror/death squad murder of hundreds of women and children during the assassinations of scientists in Tehran.
Attempted assasination by drones against another head of state of a nuclear country. Indiscriminate use of Himars and other missiles against civilians in Ukraine and Russia.
The list goes on. Complete lawlessness and morally corrupt government.
All of this is accelerating the rise of a BRICS alternative and consolidating most countries to distance themselves from using our $Dollar. The cumulative consequences will be severe to us common folks.
The jury is out how this Caribbean project will develop. The tab is just added to debt assigned to us commoners, not to Trumps’ donors, who plan to profit off the use of the public’s military, CIA infrastructure and checkbook.
These are not the facts.
He tends to make up his own facts.
Made up, no.
Inconvenient for buying into transparently imbecilic narratives fed to the public by a klepotcratic government, yes.
I listed facts. A nation using the military to “enforce” unilateral sanctions, seizing ships, kidnapping or assassinating foreign heads of state, executing foreign suspects without charges, let alone without evidence are war crimes under international laws our own government was instrumental in creating after WWII.
This is not the behavior of a Constitutional Republic or moral and wise leadership. And has nothing remotely connected to focusing on America 1st and our serious internal problems.
You are wrong. Perhaps some people who live an alternate reality see it as you state…. but the vast majority do not.
Except your analysis is flawed as BRICS nations have far more billions of people who recognize reality when they see it.
Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador and 10 Caribbean countries are praising the USA.
They all have suffered from Venezuela and it’s nasty destructive behavior.
Most of them helped in ways to support America.
The USA is not standing alone in this victory and it is not a situation of USA against the whole wide world.
Not by a long shot.
of course,
did you expect anything else?
Madura is a cartel leader
and so is Claudia
Given that the US is one episode away from telling the UN to FO, the Mexican President better sit down and drink her tea quietly.
Too funny! A violation of a UN charter. What are they gonna do? Impose sanctions? Kick us out?
The rapey warmongering cartel puppets at the UN can go pound sand. Anti-American since it’s founding, sucking us dry for 70 years.
Now, more than ever, a perfect time for our UN exit. Evict the parasites, fumigate the building, and put it to a use actually benefiting, dare I say it, Americans. Our homeless veterans top of the list.
Tear down the building and all its occultism.
Create a “green space”/ local park for NYC residents.
Venezuelans pour into streets to celebrate Maduro’s fall
Venezuelans celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026.
Where is this website. I’ve seen a few posts of people tearing down Maduros pictures in the cities but I can’t find anything else.
Gipper provided hyperlink in title of his post. Click on it and it takes you to Washington Examiner article.
These are Venezuelans exiled in Chile. We should start getting pics from Venezuela itself.
Would that Iranians have the same good fortune.
Go ahead and get them bro. Good luck 😉
This is the picture used by The Daily Mail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15431105/happy-Venezuelans-world-celebrate-capture.html
Finally, Venezuela is free again! I remember the horror stories when Chavez first came to power… all the hunger and death 🙁
President Trump and team performed perfectly! No leaks, no loss of US personnel, and virtually no boots on the ground.
Now those who fled Venezuela will be able to go back home.
And yet Antifa can’t be stopped.
Exactly. Im still waiting for our freedom.
Leftist judges keep releasing them
Exactly!
And the uniparty deliberately ignores.
How soon before our favourite judge demands the return of the Maduro’s?
Which is why the case should be tried in Miami not SDNY!
I hope someone explains the “why” of that decision
and illegal wife beater and human smuggler Kilamar Garcia is busy living his life as a free man in MD.
A free RICH man. You forgot that part.
Living his best life and beating his best wife. Dems can sure pick em.
“And yet Antifa can’t be stopped.”
Too many in positions of authority that don’t want antifa to be stopped. Follow the money.
How the USA will run Venezuela without a large continent of personnel on the ground remains to be seen. I assume Trump will try to install Maria Machado or Gonzalez.
How much in aid packages is this going to cost is?
Nothing. They can pay with THEIR oil production which now won’t be skimmed by the previous regime.
I am. This is a win for President Trump. Now make Zelensky and the Ukraine money drain go away! 🤔
The next leader that can last a month or three will figure it out.
Or they won’t.
FAFO.
“Finally, Venezuela is free again!”
LOLOL do you guys hear yourselves? wow….
i think the NAZCIA would be hard pressed to have found a better selection in 2024 than the guy who brought all his followers along under the guise of fixing our problems and stopping all the foreign meddling… and getting them all to cheer it on, 100% forgetting bush just a few years before.
just wow….
Cry harder…
I am trying to imagine how you could be any weaker….
Nope. Nothing.
Losing a dictator iz hard…..
Venezuela is not in any way “free” any more that removing Sadaam Hussein freed Iraq which is now an Iranian client state.
It will be…
Bannon had someone on today that said there are 2 major cartels in Venezuela to keep the Maduro terror going. It will still be ugly for freedom loving Venezualan’s until they are eliminated.
Now that they’ve pacified the executive, the military will be following direct US orders for a few precious days / weeks. I would imagine they’re going to take this time to cut the heads off the snakes of the upstart lower cartels.
As long as the US military is in Venezuela we should be going after all the election fraud infrastructure that is based there
That is why America has to be running Venezuela for the the foreseeable future.
Maybe the Venezualans should/could form a militia and start protecting themselves now that a big part of the job has been accomplished.
It’s going to take time to rid Venezuela of the criminals. We are going to be there for a long time.
Since we cannot eliminate our own criminals……………………
Please oh Please let us know what the next targets are.
CIA knows. and will “remind” them, what happens when you say “no.”.
You may not survive the experience.
I watched most of the press conference a few hours ago. Is it a coincidence that POTUS’ beloved older brother died from alcohol addiction? The 300,000 drug related deaths he spoke of today are not abstract numbers for him. For POTUS, this is personal.
Truly all things work together for good for those that are called according to God’s purposes, even horrible things like losing a beloved brother to addiction. This brings to mind what Joseph said to his brothers in Egypt, “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good, to save many lives.”
He has a good friend that lost his son to an overdose also.
It’s personal for me also. Very much so.
Same here. I don’t wish this on anyone, but some commenters need to understand that it’s not always about politics.
The blob does not want to stop the flow of drugs –there is too much money to be made. Think of all the drug counseling services, halfway houses, rehab centers, addiction centers etc. that would lose government funding. Think of the shortage of young children that are put in foster care because of addict parents-children that are trafficked, abused, molested and murdered despite CPS and other government oversight. The Opium Wars destroyed China and made Boston Brahmins rich–we have a modern day version of that going on here. Note who squawks the loudest about this military action–another litmus test of who is corrupt about to happen.
In the last week and just today, 2 hi profile people’s children in the news for drug related & homicide deaths. It will be interesting to see how the lib hollyweird crowd react to this news.
Funny it’s mostly cartel and communist countries are outraged in SA
Latin American Presidents Rejoice, Leftists Panic over Maduro Arrest
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Argentine President Javier Milei
Latin American leaders aligned with the White House’s pro-freedom stance celebrated the arrest and extradition of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Saturday morning, extended support to the exiled winner of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Edmundo González.
Leftist leaders in the region, meanwhile, expressed alarm and accused the United States of illicit military action in conducting airstrikes to ensure the safety of U.S. military personnel acting to detain Maduro and his wife, “first combatant” Cilia Flores. Remaining Venezuelan authorities at press time have stated that they do not know Maduro and Flores’s whereabouts and it is not clear who is acting as head of state in that country.
Among the first to react was libertarian Argentine President Javier Milei, who reposted a speech he had delivered recently on the status of the Venezuelan socialist dictatorship with slogans he commonly uses in support of things he posts: “Liberty Advances,” the name of his political party, and “long live liberty, damn it!” his official campaign slogan.
In the speech President Milei shared, he described Maduro’s regime as “atrocious and inhuman” and called for its demise, celebrating President Donald Trump for taking action to stop Maduro’s drug trafficking and other illicit activities.
“The atrocious and inhuman dictatorship of narco-terrorist Nicolás Maduro extends a dark shadow over our region,” Milei says in the speech. “This danger and this shame cannot continue to exist on the continent or it will end up dragging us all with it. Argentina salutes the pressure of the United States and Donald Trump to liberate the Venezuelan people. The time for a timid approach to this matter has been exhausted.”
Appearing on the Argentine network La Nación on Saturday morning, Milei listed the many reasons his government considered Maduro a massive international security threat.
“He is a narco-terrorist who has deep connections with, for example, with the Spanish socialist party, with Podemos, he has interfered electorally in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Bolivia. He also receives funding from drug trafficking through the Cartel of the Suns,” Milei explained. “He has infiltration strategies through mass migration linked to cartels, he has alliances with woke NGOs to impulse radical leftism around the world, he has links with Iran, with Hezbollah, he has offered logistical support to Hamas.”
President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador also published a message remarking on the extraction of Maduro from the country, extending support to the rightful winner of the 2024 presidential election, former diplomat Edmundo González. Maduro staged a sham election that year in which he banned all other opposition candidates — including the country’s most popular politician, conservative former lawmaker María Corina Machado — and declared himself the winner without publishing any vote tallies. Machado and González used teams on the ground locally to collect the true vote tallies and prove that González won, publishing the tallies online. Maduro’s regime never contradicted the results, but forced González into exile in Spain; Machado has also since escaped to Norway after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
“The time comes for every narco-Chavista criminal,” Ecuadorian President Noboa wrote. “Their structure will fall in all the continent. To [Machado], [González], and the Venezuelan people: It is the moment to recover your country. You have an ally in Ecuador.”
In Paraguay, the administration of conservative President Santiago Peña issued a statement through its foreign ministry reiterating Maduro’s status as the “head of the Cartel of the Suns,” a multicontinental drug trafficking operation.
“Our country had alerted about the unsustainable deviation of Venezuela under the rule of Nicolás Maduro, head of the Cartel of the Suns. In this sense, given that this is a criminal structure officially declared as terrorist by national authorities, its persistence in power represented a threat to the region,” the statement read, concluding that Maduro’s demise should lead to a return of rule of law in the country.
The comments from the South American leaders is consistent with past comments from other officials in the region.
In one of the more prominent recent comments, the conservative president-elect of Chile, José Antonio Kast, stated in December that he would support American action to oust Maduro and, furthermore, fellow South American leaders agreed.
“They all are fully conscious that the situation being lived through in Venezuela is unacceptable,” he said of other South American presidents.
Fellow leftist rulers who have supported the socialist disaster in Venezuela were less celebratory on Saturday morning. The government of Cuba, a designated state sponsor of terrorism, issued a statement accusing the United States of “terrorism against the brave Venezuelan people and Our America,” a term communists use for territory they command in the Western Hemisphere.
The figurehead “president” of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, published a statement condemning America but failing to name Nicolás Maduro or defend him in any way, ending it with the official slogan of Fidel Castro’s 1959 coup d’etat, “Fatherland or Death.”
The leftist government of President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico explicitly condemned the capture of Maduro, again without referring to him by name.
“The government of Mexico condemns and energetically rejects the military actions executed unilaterally in the last few hours by United States of America armed forces,” the Mexican Foreign Ministry declared, accusing Washington of violating the United Nations Charter. Outside of this statement, the Mexican government has not indicated at press time that it will take any action in defense of the Venezuelan narco-state.
In Brazil, socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, one of the few ardent defenders of Maduro who was elected to office, called the “bombing” of Venezuela “unacceptable.”
“These acts represent a most serious affront to Venezuela’s sovereignty and yet another extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community,” Lula wrote in a message published to social media.
“Attacking countries, in flagrant violation of international law, is the first step toward a world of violence, chaos, and instability, where the law of the strongest prevails over multilateralism,” Lula declared, demanding unspecified United Nations action. Lula also failed to express any personal concern for Maduro.
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2026/01/03/latin-american-presidents-rejoice-leftists-panic-over-maduro-arrest/
“‘What’s next?’ Funny you should ask…”
Cuba will be free.
¡Sí!
The US won’t invade Cuba. There’s nothing for us to steal there. This administration doesn’t care about Cuba, IMO.
-“ Cuban leaders should be concerned following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela and the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday, as President Donald Trump signaled that his administration could shift its focus to the Caribbean island.“
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-cuba-id-concerned-after-us-military-arrests-venezuelan-leader-maduro
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio said”.
And, where, might I ask does Rubio’s lineage originate from?
Cuba might just happen. It’s in Marco’s bloodline. What would you
do, if given the chance you could maybe correct a wrong that forced
your family out of their homeland 6+ decades ago?
The most difficult and dangerous time will be the interim between now and the venezuelans selecting a leader and government thru free elections. Potential for a lot of chaos by a lot of bad actors. Godspeed Mr. President!
China Says It’s ‘deeply shocked’ by US move on Venezuela – Yea, sure.
https://www.disclose.tv/id/m1lfwrn08h/
Good.
That was the idea.
they would be fools not to move on taiwan as soon as they can, now. its a helluva lot more relevant to their interests and in the backyard than venezuela is to ours.
You do realize that China was trying to move in on the minerals and oil themselves in Venezuela, Hezbollah is extremely active there…not to mention the gangs they sent into the USA.
Venezuela is VERY relevant to the safety and security of the USA. In fact, the entire southern part of the Americas is of great interest to the USA. Do you forget the border invasion? The foreign gangs who terrorize the people of the USA?
Of course NATO is going to object. Every organization associated with globalism and/or the CCP is going to side with the cartels.
It is truly a shame that NATO has the apparent imprimatur of legitimacy.
Let’s shock the world more and pull out of NATO and the UN. That would send them all over the edge for sure but I’d be cheering my head off.
All good but what about the crooks in our government and the invaders when do we see them perp walked.
I guess if they piss trump off we sterilize our nation but until we chip away cartels elsewhere?
Hillary walks free, piglouse walks free, Omar, on and on.
this is the exciting replacement episode to that action. are you not entertained?
Did you see the recent (this week) Truth Social post someone shared here with PDJT stating he’s seen the comments and telling the AG to get to work?
Were the Seditious Six aware of this impending military action and trying to prevent it by giving “permission ” for soldiers to defy PDJT? They should all be brought up on charges of treason and the appropriate punishment.
Those comments were also made around the time this military action was being planned and rehearsed. It fits perfectly.
Those 6 were all Cartel Lackeys trying to prevent the loss of their paychecks.
That thinking likely applies to the NATO / Eurotrash that are upset at the present time.
Hmmm….. Kelly……… Arizona……..
Other then election fraud, what might come to mind with $$$
that helps run the corruption in that state?
AS POTUS said in his presser Congress wasn;t consulted cuz they leak…
I believe both Houses of Congress will be slighted because they were not informed ahead of time, therefore unable to leak the information and cause it to fail, getting many people killed. They will do their best to stymie any success. Some have too much cash to lose.
Our most dangerous enemies are within. I do hope that all members of both House and Senate are being vetted with regard to funding. How much and by whom? I briefly saw X posts with regard to Thune, Lindsay Graham and Dems having SMURF donations to their campaigns by the thousand in some cases over a million. This information has already been suppressed.
I hope that Maduro kept meticulous records of which U.S. politicians he had on payroll and that President Trump now has that information.
Where would they find them to inform them?
You can bet they aren’t in the sewer, only ones there are the ones that bang the gavel so PDJT can’t do recess appointments.
They’ll be furious but how can one even think the President can trust even one of them? I notice he did not run it past the Supreme Court either.
Lockheed Martin closed, yesterday, $13.49 up to $497.16 per share…
Huntington Ingalls Industries, closed up $9.54 to $349.61 per share…
Just saying…
I am quite happy with this. We are destroying the deep state puppets abroad. Excellent!
And getting our oil back and destroying the V. voting machine corruption. Winning on all sides with the icing on the cake that the V. people are thrilled.
I pray that the people of South America will become prosperous and enjoy what life has to offer.
Is this going to last longer than our Venezuela Coup in 2002?
It was only 47 hours 🤷♀️ Some say 36 hours!
Guess that is why they had to get him out of Venezuela
this time —make sure that didn’t happen again 🤣
I am sure everyone remembers that! 🤪right….sure
Pedro Carmona lasted 47 hours….in that time he
dissolved the National Assembly and Supreme Court
in Venezuela, and then……..🤷♀️Everyone remembers
that……..sure they do!🤪
I started researching Venezuela during Biden installment.
📚 sanctions never worked….98% of Venezuela food – they grow.
Think a mini Russia- they adapted.
Previous blockade by Pompeo,Pence and Narco-Marco foam boy
didn’t work. Previous Special Ops like Operation Gideon were bust.
Found out that about 90% of what we were told by media
was pure propaganda. 📚📚
Who knows how this is going to turn out.🤷♀️🤷♀️
When you stir a ### pot🤷♀️you never know what will happen.
And if you don’t learn from the past.
No kool aid for me…..🧃
The ability to simultaneously be skeptical, ignorant, & idiotic is impressive. Sounds like something Massie & Rand would compose.
Perfectly stated
😀 it even beats Massive and Rand, which is saying a lot!
GWB is no PDT.
Most interesting comment: President Donald Trump discussed the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and stated that he has a good relationship with China’s Xi Jinping, and “there’s not going to be a problem. And they’re going to get oil. We’re going to allow people to have oil.”
allow………….
As an aside, has anyone from the WH mentioned that the same voting machines that brought Maduro to power are the same ones used in the U.S.? And that maybe the administration will soon turn its attention that matter?
I sure hope so. Maybe they bombed their election machine operations while they were chasing down Maduro.
Oh yeah!
Trump’s next operation . . .
“Maduro, Venezuela, The U.S.—And The Oil Shock China Can’t Price In”
China’s exposure hits three specific areas.The first is financial: an estimated $17-19 billion in outstanding principal from China Development Bank’s oil-for-loans program, per AidData research. That’s the largest single-country commodity-backed position in Beijing’s portfolio out of the $60 billion extended since 2007.
The second is operational. Shandong’s independent refiners configured coking units specifically for Venezuelan heavy crude, a grade trading at deep discounts because Western buyers can’t touch it.
The third is strategic. Washington just showed it’s willing to use kinetic force to disrupt Chinese commodity supply chains in the Americas.
Chevron’s joint ventures keep running under a renewed specific license from Treasury, according to NPR. Data indicates U.S.-bound exports of roughly 150,000 bpd in November 2025, per Reuters data. Valero and Marathon have first call on those barrels. The downstream risk for China is simple: Every Venezuelan barrel reaching American shores is one Beijing must replace from a tighter market at full price.
The Feedstock Cliff
Position managers at Shandong’s teapots face an immediate question: Where do replacement barrels come from?
Venezuela’s exports hit roughly 921,000 bpd in November 2025, according to Reuters, with China taking about 80% of the total (some 746,000 bpd). These barrels often arrived via Malaysia’s ship-to-ship transshipment hubs or through rebranding practices designed to hide their origin. Reuters previously described traders rebranding Venezuelan cargoes as “Brazilian” to bypass transshipment steps.
https://archive.is/QWcim#selection-3959.0-3959.66
Q: How much silver and copper were flowing to China out of Venezuela?
China is being boxed out of sourcing silver from Latin America.
The silver which Judas used will now be used by the Lord to collapse the Babylon Financial System, which is based on Child Trafficking.
Isaiah 49
24-26 Can plunder be retrieved from a giant,
prisoners of war gotten back from a tyrant?
But God says, “Even if a giant grips the plunder
and a tyrant holds my people prisoner,
I’m the one who’s on your side,
defending your cause, rescuing your children.
And your enemies, crazed and desperate, will turn on themselves
killing each other in a frenzy of self-destruction.
Then everyone will know that I, God,
have saved you—I, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Everyone, Lord!
Hopefully the removal of the cartel soldiers is in the plan including all gang leaders
Earlier when asked by The Post if “US troops [will] be on the ground helping run the country,” Trump said: “No, if Maduro’s vice president — if the vice president does what we want, we won’t have to do that.”
Now NYPost reporting, “Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has also fled to Russia.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/world-news/venezuelan-leader-nicolas-maduro-wife-captured-after-large-scale-strikes/
Now, that’s power!
Trump’s next operation . . .
After the press conference I turned here; I know to avoid the state narrative pushers who will be reflexively attacking anything which was done by our patriotic president’s administration. Why make myself sick?
How many US politicians have received payoffs from the Venezuela dictatorship?
75% I would guess?
Nobody in Washington DC is buying vineyards in Napa or ski chalets in Aspen on $200k a year!
Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu
Zohran Mamdani expanded on his vow to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it would show that New York “stands up for international law.”
https://archive.is/oI3wn#selection-4309.0-4313.149
Don’t you have a pothole to fill?
Exactly. And make sure the garbage is picked up.
“Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu.”
That’s a clown show I would love to watch with lot’s of dark chocolate, popcorn and ice cold beer.
Whatever happens way we win! 😉
Nice way to see if Mamdani is a windbag. Pissant 2 year assemblyman.
Hope Mandami shows some balls and carries out his threat!!! That’s a shitshow I would love to watch! LOL
Maduro is one of Mamdani’s role models no doubt.
Translation, I found out about this event like everyone else and there’s FA I can do about it, except regurgitate the boiler-plate, globalist waffle that my advisors have written about the sovereignty of a nation, without understanding the concept of the legitimacy of its leadership first.
I’m also concerned that the Venezuelans in my city will either applaud President Trump for his decisive action or now have no excuse to stay in the US.
Who does this guy think he is? He is just a mayor.
From the X post:
“I just realized something.
Trump went after Maduro FIRST to make sure Khamenei & the terrorist Islamic Republic occupying Iran can’t escape to Venezuela when the Islamic Regime falls & Iran is freed.
All of the IRGC’S assets, drone factories and military bases in Venezuela are now in the hands of the United States.
God bless America and President Trump.”
Definitely ok with that.
.
No better man!
He even speaks Spanish.
Many good Ven expats we worked with in the Chalmette XOM /PDVSA JV. Hoping they can eventually return to their country and rejoin their families. Nationalization of Mobil happened in the 70’s under Perez.
Added benefits. The supply lines are much shorter than Afghanistan and Iraq and perhaps it keeps MIC satisfied to play around and not be distracted by Iran.
PDT is able to solve other country’s problems, but can’t solve OUR own problems due to congress and leftist judges. It just seems so wrong! I may be alone, but I don’t want more of our tax dollars going out to other countries or our men fighting another country’s war. Now our men will be stationed in Venezuela and can be hurt/killed.
We have a serious deficit and financially strapped taxpayers here in the USA. I want our money to take care of ourselves then have a huge reserve before we even think about helping others. I do realize there are things PDT knows that I don’t. I just want to stop being taxed to death for other countries.
Unless CONGRESS acts, ‘national’ executive orders by PDJT only go as far as ‘progressive’ judges allow. CONGRESS must make ‘executive orders’ actionable BEYOND the power of auto pen appointed judges to obstruct (or remove such judges). Until that happens, PDJT’s ability to ‘solve’ national issues is limited…..very limited. And remember, CONGRESS controls the purse strings…what goes into that purse and what goes out. I’m actually surprised PDJT has accomplished what he has given the obstacles he has/is facing. As for ‘aid’ going to other countries…..again, CONGRESS. I have to believe the President is doing the best he can with what he is given to work with….and yes, some of what he is working with….cough…DOJ….cough, he has burdened himself with.
nice thought
BUT
the US cannot take care of itself
if the western hemisphere is run
by communists, drug cartels, etc.
and then band together with China
to takeover/make war with the US
with the aid of the leftists, communists
and Marxist and on the take politicians
in the US.
Nice thought
BUT
The US hasn’t taken care of itself for decades. It cannot and will not be fixed in the short amount of time PDT has left. The UniParty runs deep. They have run the US into the ground and only have to wait out PDT.
VZ was one of the richer countries in the world and the #2 market for Ford F-150’s before the commies took over.
Who here cringes when they hear the name Bondi, when you her x posts and when she speaks. We really need a real AG of the DOJ.
As Joe said Trump loves Maduro.
Time for martial law frankly and after a period of cleanse, retirement.
Gen Caine a future SecWar.
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Hopefully the removal Maduro will create an opportunity to investigate the Smartmatic and Dominion voting machines from Venezuela and finally prove beyond a reasonable doubt President Trump won the 2020 election!!! The 2020 fraudulent election that gave us the demented fool Joe Biden has done immeasurable harm to the country!!! JMO
U.S. Claims Western Hemispheric Domination, Denies that Russia Has Legitimate Security Interests On Its Own Border
U.S. launches military strikes against Venezuela and seizes Maduro while CIA escalates involvement in attacking Russian refineries.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/us-claims-western-hemispheric-domination
NATO=CIA.
President Trump is absolutely irreplaceable. Wish we could keep him for as long as America and the rest of the world needs him.
Never trust a man who won’t utter a profanity. I trust this man who speaks simply and likes to cuss.
Totally agree. PDJT is a human being just like the rest of us, and even though he has superhuman energy and incredible mental toughness, he still has feelings and he’s not afraid to let them show (when appropriate).
Now this was a Special Military Operation.
BTW, Given that Cuba gets a lot of oil from Venezuela, will this now be cut off?
And, if so, will Vladimir Putin send oil carrying ships to Cuba to help his buddies ruling there?
Breaking ************************
What the heck?
“Venezuelan VP Rodriguez Demands Maduro’s Release
Epoxh times
By T.J. Muscaro
Just now
Venezuela’s de facto vice president Delcy Rodriguez addressed the nation in a televised speech demanding Nicolás Maduro’s release, while expressing a desire to maintain dialogue with the United States.
“Here, we have a government with clarity, and I repeat and repeat again … we are willing to have respectful relations,” she said, referring to the Trump administration.”
************************** Breaking
from the Guardian
Venezuela’s Rodriguez rejects Trump portrayal of regimeReports coming through now from Nicolás Maduro’s vice-president in Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, that contrast sharply from the portrayal given by Donald Trump at the presidential press conference in the US earlier.
There, Trump said he understood she’d be sworn in as president of Venezuela, after the US captured and spirited away Maduro, and that she had, essentially, agreed to cooperate with the US because she had no “choice”.
Now Rodríguez, a staunch loyalist of Maduro, has appeared on state television and across radio stations in there, saying that Maduro “is Venezuela’s only president”.
She described Maduro as having been kidnapped and called for him and his wife to be freed.
We can’t have this news until we’ve destroyed Iran, again
So the primary supplier of illegal addictive drugs into the country is now drug cartel run Mexico. Either Mexico stops the drug trade or President Trump will! Venezuela should be a wakeup call for Mexico but I doubt it they’ll just try to pickup Venezuela’s lost market share! JMO
MNN BREAKING…
MNN IS JUST NOW LEARING THAT JUDGE BOASBERG HAS RULED KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA IS THE RIGHTFUL PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA
THIS IN ADDITION TO BEING THE LEADING DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
LEARING LOL. Well done, Gipper!
Note which pigs are howling as they get stuck.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-melt-down-over-capture-and-arrest-dictator-maduro
Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly condemned the U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026. The Kremlin labeled the action an “act of armed aggression” and expressed deep concern over what it described as a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter. In a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow denounced the U.S. strike as “unfounded” and driven by “ideologized hostility”, asserting that practical diplomacy had been abandoned in favor of unilateral force.
Putin had previously reaffirmed support for Maduro in a phone call on December 11, 2025, amid rising U.S. pressure, indicating Moscow’s long-standing commitment to the regime. However, with Maduro now in U.S. custody and en route to New York to face narco-terrorism charges, Russia’s options are limited. Analysts suggest Putin may use this moment to criticize U.S. hypocrisy on sovereignty, especially given American objections to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
Putin doesn’t give a crap about Maduro or Venezuela. Russia has plenty of oil and natural resources. If anything Putin is happy that Russia doesn’t have to prop-up Maduro and $$$ support Venezuela anymore.
Vlad seems pretty upset. Probably worrying about losing Cuba next.
The last time we were in Cuba there was a plethora of Chinese. I trust a Russian over a Chinese any day.
GDP Russia 2.17 trillion
GDP USA 30.62 trillion
Putin is a cockroach that could be squashed, however, Trump seems to like him.