"Citgo owns three major refineries on the Gulf Coast, 43 oil terminals, and a network of over 4,000 independently owned gas stations."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #PaulSinger #Citgo
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"What is Donald Trump running away from so hard? Is it the fifth anniversary of his January 6 insurrection, which we will mark on Tuesday? It should be.

It could be Jack Smith’s newly released testimony, which is damning and damaging—and we haven’t even gotten the release date of Volume II of his special counsel report, due sometime in February unless Trump manages to hang it up in court."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Jan6 #JackSmith #Epstein
/34

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-1cb

"On balance, Congressman Jim Jordan’s 'Weaponization' work is backfiring.

It could also be the Epstein Files. DOJ missed its reporting date to Congress over the weekend, and the full release of the files is still nowhere in sight.

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Jan6 #JackSmith #Epstein
/35

"Overnight, in a press gaggle with reporters that I personally watched, Donald Trump threatened American intervention in six separate countries."

~ Aaron Parnas

See the hashtags below for a list of the six.

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #Congress #NSS #Colombia #Mexico #Greenland #Iran #Cuba #megalomania #narcissism #madman #DonroeDoctrine
/36

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-threatens-american-intervention?

"What we cannot forget for one moment in all this is that Trump is now acting as if law, or the very concept of law, does not exist. He is acting outside and in violation of the Constitution, domestic American law, and the oath he took; and outside and in violation of the UN Charter, well established international law, and Senate ratified treaties with other nations. There is only him."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw
/37

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-ridiculous-donroe-doctrine-trump

"Trump has always been drunk on fantasies of power. His entire rhetorical repertoire consists of frantic boasts and foolish words. … Trump is our president. He’s acting in our name."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and-foolishness-of-trump-foreign-policy

"Five years ago, almost to the day, Trump launched an assault on our Capitol, watched the battle on a screen as it unfolded in real time—just as he did during the Venezuela operation—and egged on his forces as they hunted our vice president.1 Maduro’s regime isn’t the first government Trump has tried to topple in our hemisphere. It’s the second."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman #Jan6
/39

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/which-countries-will-trump-invade-next-after-venezuela-maduro

"President Trump is claiming and exercising an unbridled form of executive power not heretofore seen in the United States, unconstrained by a pliable GOP-controlled Congress that has abdicated its constitutional powers."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman #Jan6
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trumps-venezuela-attack-is-a-uniquely

"While U.S. presidents have increasingly bypassed Congress and engaged in hostilities abroad on a largely unilateral basis, no prior president has simultaneously asserted such wide-ranging executive authority while aggressively sidelining the legislative branch not just in foreign affairs but in matters of the purse. It sets up a uniquely dangerous threat to the constitutional order."

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman #Jan6
/41

Adam Kinzinger comments wryly on the Trump regime's plan to "run" Venezuela.

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman
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https://bsky.app/profile/adamkinzinger.substack.com/post/3mbm5gs5sys2j