Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) joined the Ingraham Angle with Laura Ingraham to discuss how the US is taking back power in the hemisphere.
“Well, I think there is a difference; Venezuelan people want to get back to democracy, and it was only 25 years ago that they were taken over by a dictatorship.”, Mullin said
Mullin pointed out that before Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro took over, Venezuela was a democracy.
“It was a part of the region people looked to, and Venezuela was a very successful country that was a democracy in the middle of not-so-wealthy countries that surrounded it.”, said Mullin
Mullin followed up by saying that Venezuela now has the ability to return to the way it used to be.
“President Trump is giving them that opportunity, and with Maduro being gone, it allows the people to choose, and I know they’ll choose correctly.", Mullin said
Mullin also talked about how people are seeing everybody celebrate this except the Democrats, who he thinks hate Trump.
Ingraham and Mullin would also react to a video of Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on CNN’s State of the Union, talking about how Trump was starting an illegal war in Venezuela.
In that CNN video, Murphy also said that he thought Venezuela is not a national security threat to the United States and that they are not trying to invade us.
Murphy would later bring up how he thought there were no terrorist groups in Venezuela, and Trump is just trying to make money for his allies with oil-related deals.
Mullin responded to the clip by quoting a 2019 statement from Murphy, in which he said that if Trump cared about consistency, he would make an illicit case for an intervention in Venezuela, and that getting rid of Maduro is good for the US.
“Now, those were his words in 2019, criticizing Trump for not doing enough, but what President Trump did is having a backbone.", said Mullin
Mullin brought up that he thought this was the first time we’ve had real backbone in the western hemisphere since 1989, when we got rid of Noriega in Panama under former President George Bush.
“This has a very similar case, and we went into Panama on December 20th of 1989, and we said we are plucking out a dictator who is in the western hemisphere.", said Mullin
Ingraham and Mullin would agree that these actions being done in the western hemisphere also help preserve America’s national independence.
“When we focus on the western hemisphere, like we are right now, everybody else goes on warning, and China won’t be able to operate in the western hemisphere when we have such a huge naval presence out there, and when we cut off the oil from Venezuela that was feeding Cuba.”, Mullin said
Mullin also said that China can’t get ships into Cuba, and that the people of Cuba will have an opportunity to return alive.
“We are giving that opportunity, and when you see what is happening in Colombia, where President Trump already put Colombia and Mexico on notice, not necessarily because of the government, but instead it’s because of the cartels that are poisoning our streets.
Ingraham would finish the conversation by asking Mullin if he thought the military would go into countries like Cuba, Mexico, or Colombia.
“No, I don’t think so, not at all, but we will go after those who are feeding and poisoning the drugs in our country, and so if the President wants to go after the drug cartels, not the government of Mexico, but the drug cartels that are killing our friends and family in our own streets, then we will go where we need to go to protect the interest and the sovereignty of the United States.”, Mullin said
Mullin ended his statement by saying that President Trump has real backbone and the full ability to do what he wants to do in the western hemisphere.