All hell is breaking loose in Venezuela

as the United States invaded and

according to Donald Trump captured

Maduro. The opposition party in

Venezuela in exile is claiming that

Maduro negotiated his exit with Donald

Trump. But the vice president Deli

Rodriguez and the defense minister of

Venezuela seem to know nothing about any

negotiated exit. They are demanding

proof of life of Maduro and they are

calling out the invasion by the Trump

regime. Meanwhile, you have United

States Senator Mike Lee saying he just

got off the phone with Marco Rubio and

Maduro is being transferred to the

United States to be prosecuted here.

There's a lot of mass confusion taking

place. Donald Trump made no statements

prior to the invasion. The post he made

prior was a fat shaming post of Governor

Pritsker holding a hamburger and then

Donald Trump was doing tile shopping for

marble and onyx for the Golden Ballroom.

So this invasion uh was all of a sudden

uh just started taking place in

Venezuela. Um multiple sites were struck

by the United States military. Fuerta

Tijuana the main military base in Kacus.

La Carlo, the main air base in Caracus,

Elvocan, the main signal antenna,

Laguara Port, the main port of

Venezuela, Higguete airport, the air

base in the state of Miranda, and also

the mausoleum where Yugo Chavez's body

um is buried was also blown up as well.

We were covering it live here on the

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independent media. So, Donald Trump made

this post in the early hours of the

morning. He says, "The United States of

America successfully carried out a

large-scale strike against Venezuela and

its leader, President Nicholas Maduro,

who has been along with his wife

captured and flown out of the country.

This operation was done in conjunction

with the US law enforcement. Details to

follow. There will be a news conference

today at 11 a.m. at Mara Lago. Thank you

for your attention to this matter,

President Donald J. Trump. But at the

same time, you have the Minister of

Defense who was part of the Maduro

government, Vladimir Padrino Lopez. His

home was targeted during the invasion by

the United States, but he was not

killed. He held a press conference and

he spoke out about what he called the

criminal military aggression of the

United States. And then you had Deli

Rodriguez, the vice president, who based

on the Venezuelan constitution would

become the president. Let me be clear.

Maduro is an illegitimate leader. I

still don't think there should be an

unlawful invasion of Venezuela without

the authorization of the United States

Congress. So, I believe this invasion

was patently unlawful. Um, but the

Venezuelan vice president, Deli

Rodriguez, she held a call this morning

which was made public across Venezuela

and the world where she said she doesn't

know the whereabout N of Nicholas

Maduro's wife. She's not aware of any

negotiated settlement. She called for a

proof of life to be given by the United

States. You also had statements coming

out from Colombia. Their leader Gustavo

Pro put out a statement when the bombing

was taking place, when the invasion was

taking place by the United States saying

right now they are bombing Caracus.

Alert the whole world. They've attacked

Venezuela. They're bombing with

missiles. The OAS and the UN must meet

immediately. Then Gustavo Pedro also

wrote, "We have just concluded the

National Security Council meeting which

began at 3:00 a.m. Public forces are

being deployed to the border and all

available support forces will be

deployed in the event of a massive

influx of refugees from Venezuela. The

Colombian embassy in Venezuela is active

and responding to calls for assistance

from Colombians in Venezuela as members

of the United Nations Security Council.

We seek to convene the council. The

government of Colombia rejects the

aggression against the sovereignty of

Venezuela and of Latin America. Internal

conflicts between people are resolved by

those same people. In peace, that is the

principle of self-determination of

people, which forms the foundation of

the United Nations system. I invite the

Venezuelan people to find paths of civil

dialogue and their unity. Without

sovereignty, there is no nation. Peace

is the way and dialogue between people

is fundamental for national unity.

dialogue and more dialogue is uh is what

is needed. Um we also know that there

are definitely casualties and fatalities

um of Venezuelans. Um it left an

unspecified number of Venezuelans dead

and injured. Venezuelan officials said

in a statement, "The number of those

casualties is still being assessed.

According to the New York Times, Mike

Lee, uh the MAGA Republican senator, I

mean, again, there's so much conflicting

information out there. I just want to

give you everything that's out there as

of now. He says, "Just got off the phone

with Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. He

informed me that Nicholas Maduro has

been arrested by US personnel to stand

trial on criminal charges in the United

States and that the kinetic action we

saw tonight was deployed to protect and

defend those executing the arrest

warrant. This action likely falls within

the president's inherent authority under

article two of the constitution to

protect the US personnel from actual or

imminent attack. I disagree. I think

this is actually counter to the

constitution. I believe it was clearly

an unlawful invasion that required

Congress's approval, but MAGA

bootlickers like Mike Lee are going to

bootlick. Essentially, that's what

they're going to do. Also, it should be

noted that yesterday before the strike

took place, uh, interestingly, there

were Chinese officials, top special

envoys from China were there meeting

with, uh, Nicholas Maduro. You see the

photos right here, Chinese officials are

arriving in Venezuela for talks with

Nicholas Maduro. And just a few hours

ago, as Alanestova writes, before uh,

the strikes took place by the United

States, the Chinese special envoy was

meeting Maduro for 3 hours in Caracus.

It's unclear if China knew what was

going on. It's unclear if this was

indeed a negotiated uh arrangement

between Maduro and the Trump regime and

that these attacks were used as a smoke

screen to get Maduro out of there or if

Maduro was actually captured and

kidnapped as part of the broader

invasion taking place. But as I

mentioned before, it does not seem like

the defense minister, Vladimir Padrino

Lopez, whose home was targeted, was

aware of this. It does not seem like

Deli Rodriguez was aware of it. The vice

president um she seems not to have been

aware of it. And she's coming out with

very uh defiant statements as well.

Democratic Senator Ruben Ggo put out the

following statement. Second unjustified

war in my lifetime. This war is illegal.

It's embarrassing that we went from the

world cop to the world bully in less

than one year. There is no reason for us

to be at war with Venezuela. When I

think about the United States invasion

of Venezuela, I also think about

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but I

think about the recent attacks on Kkefe.

Now, look, it it's different in the

sense that Maduro is truly an

illegitimate leader. Nonetheless, while

Maduro is an illegitimate leader, I

don't believe we should have invaded

Venezuela without congressional

authority. And even then, I don't think

we should be putting troops in

Venezuela. My or or invading Venezuela.

My view is we should be focusing on

getting Americans healthier, making

housing affordable in the United States.

We should be focused on making things

more affordable and gener generally

improving people's lives here in the

United States before engaging in or

engaging at all in these imperial

conquests and Donald Trump's view of a

Monroe doctrine. We control the Western

Hemisphere. But when you think about

Donald Trump's view of the world and

Marco Rubio's view of the world

multi-polar, the US controls the Western

Hemisphere. Everything else they

consider to be vassal states. They want

Russia to control all of Europe and

China to control all of Asia. So by

engaging in this invasion of Venezuela

and capturing or negotiating the capture

of or with uh Maduro, whatever actually

finds out, you know, with Trump, there's

always shadiness and lies. And so I want

to be very careful how I phrase this,

but think about it. If you're Vladimir

Putin, you believe you know, you now

have a green light, right? that it's

just the law of the strong. And if Trump

can do this, Putin's going to say,

"Well, why can't I kidnap my my enemies?

I want to kidnap anybody. And who's

going to patrol the world when Donald

Trump's out there engaging in these

types of invasions? So, my invasion of

Ukraine should be fine. And I want to

kidnap Zalinsky." Or what's stopping

China from saying that they want to

kidnap the president of Taiwan? or or or

China saying, "Look, the US is doing

this, so we're going to do this." That's

why the entire world order post World

War II has been destroyed by Donald

Trump's uh despicable behavior and

despicable actions. Now, as I mentioned,

this comes on the same day when Donald

Trump was what earlier this morning

talking about acing cognitive exams. He

goes, "I have perfect health. I aced the

cognitive exam for the third time." I'll

show you these videos later, but we have

videos of Donald Trump back in April

saying he passed four cognitive exams.

And in this morning's post, he's saying,

"I aced the third straight cognitive

exam, and the doctors tell me that I

have perfect health right now." And then

he started posting more photos of

windmills. And he claimed there were

bald eagles getting killed by these

windmills in America. But just like the

windmill he posted last week, which was

in Israel, and it was a falcon, now he's

posting windmills of Spain 2010 and

Taiwan 2006. And he's saying these are

bald eagles when they're not. And he's

saying that these are windmills in the

United States, which they're not. He's

doing fat shaming AI images of Governor

Pritsker. And there was no notice to the

American people before or during when

this invasion was taking place. And so

people were very confused. What the hell

is even going on? This is what the

United States is doing. And Donald Trump

wants a Nobel Peace Prize while he's

provoking so much war and chaos and hell

across the world right now. Um, so

that's part of what the Trump regime is

doing. You also have the Trump regime

posting that uh that America will be so

beautiful. America after 100 million

deportations. And then it's a photo of

like a beach and the Homeland Security

website goes the PE or the the social

media handle goes the peace of a nation

no longer besieged by the third world.

So anyway, we're going to keep you

posted every step of the way. You've

seen the photos of Maduro being captured

by um you've seen the photos of of of

Maduro. Um we'll we'll show you as they

arrive. Um, we'll keep be posted every

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