They Wanted Venezuela Freed… Until Trump Did It
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Summary
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and her husband, former Vice President Andrew Coyne, join forces with the National Post's John Iveson and the Globe and Mail's Peter Berardelli to praise President Trump for his actions in Venezuela.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 342 AM, Monday, January the 5th. I hope you're having
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a great start to your Monday morning. I surely am here with the big blue mug of coffee. I
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appreciate you being here. I really do. And you know, a lot of people who come to channels
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Okay. So yesterday, I was pretty busy in the morning. I got a video out early in the morning
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joking about Canada becoming the 52nd state. And also put a video out the independence calendar
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for Alberta independence. But I followed the news somewhat in the afternoon. I try to stay off
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social media because it rots your brain. The world would be a better place without social media. I've
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said that. I think it's very toxic. I'm kind of saddened by the way things are going right now.
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And I'm talking about the fallout from Donald Trump going into Venezuela, removing Maduro and his wife,
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surgical precision of the United States of America, an astounding thing, freeing the Venezuelan people
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from socialism and a brutal dictatorship. And the way that the left are trying to spin this into
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more hatred of the United States of America. Of course, their Trump derangement syndrome is in
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full flight these days. And they're trying to drum up fear again. The fear campaign is back. It's
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something I've noticed. People online on YouTube talking about the hypocrisy of people on the left,
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and they're right. It's not that they're wrong, but you see the word hypocrisy a lot when it comes to
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them talking about the media in Canada. Here's Andrew Coyne. Now, this goes back just a little
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over a year. This is a tweet by him. Where is Canada? The people of Venezuela need us,
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and our government is still at the stage of asking the Maduro government to show its work.
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And this is Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Here's another one from Coyne
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from September, just a little over a year ago. Canada still hasn't recognized the likely winner
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of Venezuela's election. Venezuelans want to know why. And the winner wasn't Maduro. He doesn't win.
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He steals elections. And the people of Venezuela, they suffered because of it. And they've been
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suffering for years as Canada and other countries have looked the other way. And we have virtue
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signalers like Andrew Coyne talking about how the Venezuelans need our help. And now if you go to
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Andrew Coyne on X, it's just constant Trump derangement syndrome and how awful this is that
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Donald Trump has actually done something good for the Venezuelan people. And they're happy about this.
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You've got hypocrites like Coyne, but there are other media people in this country who seem to think
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certain politicians in this country have to form an opinion on removing an evil dictator from Venezuela
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Venezuela on their future in politics in Canada. Case in point, these two guys.
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John Iveson, who writes regularly with the National Post. Bruce Arthur with the Toronto Star. We'll go
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with Iveson first here because Arthur is responding to him. I think sodding with Donald Trump at this
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moment in history of our planet is a pretty dumb move for any Canadian politician.
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Congratulations to President Trump on successfully arresting narco-terrorist and socialist dictator
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Nicolas Maduro, who should live out his days in prison. The legitimate winner of the most recent
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Venezuelan elections, Edmundo Gonzalez, should take office along with the courageous hero and voice
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of the Venezuelan people, Maria Corina Machado, down with socialism, long live freedom. What does
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Bruce Arthur say? It's worse than dumb at any point in the past 10 years. But it's at best incredibly
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dumb now. At worst, it carries the whiff of treason with it. Now, these two idiots seem to think that
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Pierre Polly runs out for a focus group on what he should decide has happened in Venezuela
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with the removal of an evil dictator. These people have no souls.
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Now, as far as focus groups go, who should Pierre Polly be listening to here? I'm sure Mark Carney went to
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a focus group to sit on the fence on this one because that's what he's kind of done.
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Polly has a focus group. In case you've forgotten, he has a focus group. A focus group of one. And it's his
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wife. Where is Pierre Polly's wife from? Well, she just happens to be born in Caracas, Venezuela.
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And she escaped the country in 95. When she was eight years old, her family moved as refugees to
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Pointe-au-Trembla, a borough in East Montreal. I'm sure Pierre Polly understands what's going on
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Venezuela. More than people like Andrew Coyne and John Iverson and Bruce Arthur.
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Now, I have it on good authority. Very good authority. Somebody I know works with people who
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are from Venezuela. I think the number is about eight million people who have fleed Venezuela to get
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away. Probably like Pierre Polly's wife, Anna did. But she said they would regularly ship off suitcases
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of toilet paper and condoms to Venezuela. And I said, well, I understand the toilet paper. It's one
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of the first things that you don't have in a socialist hell hole like Venezuela under a dictator
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like Maduro. Why the condoms? Because they didn't want to have any children.
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Now, I'm sure many of you are old enough to remember when this kind of thing was regular.
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Venezuelans eating animals. Starving people now eating the zoo animals. This is AI telling us this
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is confirmed. This happened. And they were eating the dog food as well. Mark Carney, this yesterday,
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I guess it was. I spoke with Maria Carina Machado today. I affirmed Canada's support for a peaceful
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Venezuelan-led transition of power. One that respects the democratic will of the Venezuelan
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people. Well, well done. Wyatt Claypool, National Telegraph. Go over and support his YouTube channel.
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He wanted 100,000 people by the end of the last year. He hasn't got there. Go support this young man.
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Very smart. Affirmed Canada's support, in quotes. Dude, you undermined what the United States did
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by implying it didn't respect international law. If it was up to you, Venezuela would never be free
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of its dictatorship. Now, how is this being used? We went through a campaign of fear with the Liberal
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Party. I've said here so many times before, I didn't think I'd be back at this point this early
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in the year. But we're back again to the campaign of fear about Donald Trump and the people going on
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and on about, look, he went into Venezuela. He's coming here next, folks. Be afraid. Be afraid of
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Donald Trump coming in and getting Mark Carney and his wife in Ottawa, hauling him off and putting
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him in chains and stealing all our oil. That's what we're hearing now. Here's Charlie Angus, the NDP
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nutcase. We see this attack on Venezuela as setting the stage for an attack where Donald Trump could go
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anywhere. The same language he's used against Venezuela, he's used against us, a democratic
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nation. And he sees that we have immense resources. The difference is this time, Donald, good luck
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trying to think that you are going to intimidate or break the Canadian people. It's not going to happen.
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Just to be clear, Charlie Angus is no longer an NDP MP. He didn't run for re-election. But just to give
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you an idea who this guy really is, because this is what I remember about him. This is an article
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Brian Lilly wrote. This is from February of two years ago now, I guess you could say.
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If you speak up in favor of the fossil fuel industry, NDP MP Charlie Angus wants to send
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you to jail. So you know the kind of tyrant you're dealing with when it comes to people like Charlie
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Angus, who's a bit of a hypocrite himself because he actually has been critical of Maduro before.
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But the thing you need to understand, and I was thinking as that clip was playing, people like Andrew
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Coyne and Bruce Arthur and John Iverson and Charlie Angus and the other people who are losing their
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minds because what happened the other day, these people hate Donald Trump more than they want to
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save millions of people from a socialist hellhole and a communist dictator. That's the people you're
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dealing with here. Nice people, huh? And the person that they vilify, the person that they go after
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is the only person, the only federal leader. And I used this phrase the other day, the only federal
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leader with the moral clarity on this issue. And he's the only one who has a Venezuelan wife.
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