Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The Trump Doctrine: FAFO , Live with Erik Prince | Triggered Ep.305

00:01:51.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:01:54.000 So much breaking news, so much happening.

00:01:56.000 We're actually going to go to our guest, Eric Prince, first and then do the usual news rundown afterwards.

00:02:04.000 There's a lot of breaking news happening as we speak.

00:02:07.000 The latest on Maduro Facing Justice, Democrat meltdowns, Tim Waltz.

00:02:12.000 We're going to get into all of that.

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00:02:31.000 But joining me now, co-founder of Unplugged Technologies, founder of Blackwater, Navy SEAL veteran Eric Prince.

00:02:42.000 Eric, great to have you back on the show, man.

00:02:43.000 How you doing?

00:02:45.000 How are you, Don?

00:02:45.000 Great.

00:02:46.000 I'm doing well.

00:02:46.000 Good to see you.

00:02:47.000 I mean, it was a wild weekend.

00:02:48.000 I mean, there's so much breaking news, and you're actually the perfect person to ask about all of that.

00:02:53.000 And we got to obviously start in Venezuela.

00:02:56.000 You know, on the military side, you know, walk us through what made this operation so exceptional from a tactical standpoint.

00:03:04.000 I mean, you know, when you see the 150 planes involved, you didn't lose a plane.

00:03:08.000 You didn't lose a person, most importantly, to go through and just kind of sweep Venezuela, get in and out. 1.00

00:03:15.000 It's almost like they didn't even know we were in there.

00:03:17.000 I mean, really amazing.

00:03:18.000 You were a Navy SEAL.

00:03:19.000 You've sure done plenty of this stuff.

00:03:21.000 What did the U.S. forces have to overcome to actually pull off this thing?

00:03:24.000 It seems like a big one.

00:03:26.000 Well, first of all, the granularity of the intelligence collection to know exactly what his pattern of life is, where he sleeps on which night, who's going to be around him, what's the threat level, what's the air defense environment, obviously, what, you know, down to the detail of how the doors open.

00:03:44.000 Does it open in to the right?

00:03:45.000 What's the door made of?

00:03:47.000 What kind of explosive breaching charge do you need?

00:03:50.000 That level of detail is extraordinary, extraordinarily difficult.

00:03:55.000 And it's really what happens, you know, when Congress created U.S. SOCOM back in, I think, 1985.

00:04:03.000 They did that to generate a unique funding source to take away money as a limiting factor to allow special operations to have all the unique equipment, the unique personnel and training, and the ability to do and to apply maximum human innovation to pull off something like this.

00:04:23.000 It is incredible to come from the sea with 150 aircraft strike package to take out all the enemy air defenses, including multi-billion dollar air defense network that they purchased from Russia with some new Chinese stuff that was supposed to detect stealth fighters, all of which just got the lights turned out and they got smoked to the point of putting Delta in the building where he was.

00:04:48.000 I see today that the Cuban government even acknowledged that 32 Cubans were killed in action trying to defend Maduro.

00:04:56.000 I say the Americans, right, left, and center, should be extremely proud of their military because it performed.

00:05:03.000 And it's really what it shows what happens when you focus on lethality and merit.

00:05:07.000 And fortunately, JSOC never really strayed from that.

00:05:10.000 A lot of the other military did, but they proved it in spades on Saturday.

00:05:16.000 Yeah, it's sort of nice when you focus on lethality as a fighting force rather than like, you know, pronouns and transgenderism and whatever else it was that seemed to be the focus of the last administration. 0.64

00:05:25.000 I mean, it's amazing what you can actually do with these guys.

00:05:28.000 You can picture the kind of guys that did the mission, and they did it extraordinarily well, and they should be proud.

00:05:34.000 They will know and remember that story for the rest of their lives.

00:05:38.000 But it's not just that.

00:05:39.000 All the supporting arms, the radar aircraft, the stealth fighters to go in to punch into that enemy air defense network and shred it.

00:05:49.000 So there was a lot of things going bang almost simultaneously as the helicopters are going in.

00:05:54.000 Americans should be proud and our enemies should fear.

00:05:58.000 It's a great reminder that America still is pretty good at some things and to avoid that.

00:06:04.000 That day, there was a Chinese delegation in Caracas visiting Maduro trying to sell more Chinese systems.

00:06:12.000 So those dudes, I'm sure, were in the hotel as the world is on fire around them. 0.98

00:06:16.000 And they're saying, holy shit, what is happening? 0.99

00:06:18.000 There are some really pissed off Americans right now. 0.99

00:06:21.000 So that was a very good thing.

00:06:24.000 The fact that Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, were taken is excellent.

00:06:30.000 Maduro was the head of the bus driver union.

00:06:34.000 Chavez, the guy that, the guy that really socialized that made Vena, took them down the road towards a communist state.

00:06:45.000 She was Chavez's lawyer, Celia Flores was.

00:06:49.000 And so she turned to her husband, a kind of a reliable stooge.

00:06:53.000 And that's how he was made president. 0.79

00:06:55.000 So they were both in on all the narcotrafficking, all the nonsense.

00:07:00.000 Her two sons, Flores' sons, had both been multiple indicted already on drug trafficking charges.

00:07:07.000 So it's great that they wind up in the United States, and it's great that they can see trial.

00:07:14.000 There's certainly some back and forth going.

00:07:16.000 hear that Delce Rodriguez and Jorge Rodriguez, these are not great people.

00:07:20.000 Their father was a That's the vice president, correct?

00:07:25.000 And she's now the acting president.

00:07:25.000 Correct.

00:07:27.000 Jorge and Delsi, Jorge is the head of the National Assembly.

00:07:32.000 Their father was a professional murderer, criminal, extortionist, kidnapper who used to make his money kidnapping white European oil workers in previous decades.

00:07:45.000 So the gangster mentality has not fallen far from the tree. 0.86

00:07:47.000 Diestado Cabello, who is the Minister of Interior, is a very bad dude.

00:07:51.000 I think there's a $15 million bounty on him.

00:07:54.000 And there's a $10 million bounty, I believe, on Padrino, the Minister of Defense. 0.96

00:07:58.000 So I think for the administration, they're certainly negotiating from a much better position of authority because everyone around there can see, holy shit, the U.S. can reach in here and smack us when necessary.

00:08:12.000 But the U.S. has not had a great track record of paying bounties, but they can change that, I think, in this case.

00:08:21.000 If the interim regime is not behaving, I think then the president could, our president can announce to say, look, the $15 million bounty on Diestado Cabello, and now it's payable dead or alive.

00:08:36.000 Yeah, talk about that a little bit.

00:08:37.000 I know we spoke beforehand a little bit about how, you know, now, because, you know, obviously America has done a really good job of toppling dictators.

00:08:44.000 They haven't necessarily done a great job of filling that void historically once they've gotten rid of the dictator.

00:08:49.000 I mean, you know, Iraq being case in point, Libya, you know, the list goes on and on.

00:08:55.000 How do you think the, and there's a couple other things I want to unpackage in what you spoke about, because I think they're important, but, you know, how does now, you know, the public sector, you know, get involved?

00:09:05.000 I mean, you know, U.S., whether it's U.S. oil companies, whatever it may be, as they're involved, can they effectuate a pressure campaign to actually make some of those other changes without the U.S. government having to do it?

00:09:15.000 Yeah, I'm sure the U.S. is putting them on some kind of a timeline to run another election.

00:09:20.000 The fact is, the last election they had, which was a year ago, July, this guy named Edmundo Gonzalez was the figurehead on the ballot.

00:09:30.000 He was only there because this woman, Maria Carina Machado, was forcibly removed, prevented from being on the ballot.

00:09:37.000 Yeah, she's been on the show.

00:09:38.000 She's great.

00:09:38.000 She's fantastic.

00:09:39.000 She campaigned the entire time.

00:09:41.000 She is the most fearless woman in all of Venezuela.

00:09:44.000 She really deserves to be the president or have some significant executive role because she's the one that won the Nobel Prize for tirelessly campaigning for freedom in Venezuela.

00:09:55.000 So I would say they're going to put them on a timeline for actually an observed, proper election and let the ships fall where they may.

00:10:05.000 There's another guy that won a previous election that was stolen, Enrique Camprilis.

00:10:09.000 You may hear from him again as well.

00:10:11.000 So I just think it's important to move away from the socialist gang that was literally defended by dozens and dozens of communist Cuban agents.

00:10:22.000 That has to go.

00:10:24.000 And so it is a proper, let's say, it's not a regime change operation.

00:10:30.000 It is definitely a regime reform operation that brought a known wanted criminal to justice.

00:10:37.000 And hopefully the rest of them get the message that they too can be in the crosshairs of the USG when necessary.

00:10:43.000 And they might not get arrested.

00:10:45.000 They might not get arrested.

00:10:46.000 They might get something else.

00:10:48.000 Interesting.

00:10:49.000 It's been interesting watching sort of, obviously, hey, I live in South Florida, right?

00:10:52.000 I mean, the huge Venezuelan population, those people are elated.

00:10:55.000 They're dancing in the streets, the people of Venezuela doing the same thing.

00:10:59.000 It seems like the people of New York, I feel like I've seen so many of the faces before where they're doing the anti, go into Venezuela, anti-this operation thing, but it seems like those people, you know, had, they were the mask bearers during COVID.

00:11:14.000 They were then Ukrainian flag bearers during there.

00:11:17.000 Then they became Palestinian flag bearers.

00:11:19.000 Now they're Venezuelan flag bearers.

00:11:21.000 But against, you know, against this movement, it seems like you even recognize the faces.

00:11:25.000 None of them actually look even Latin American, and yet that's happening. 1.00

00:11:29.000 But all the places with actual Venezuelan populations, it seems those people are ecstatic. 1.00

00:11:34.000 What are your thoughts on sort of the difference between the creation that's out there versus what's actually happening for people who have suffered from this regime?

00:11:42.000 I saw Zorham Mandani, the new mayor of New York, tweeted yesterday, there's tens of thousands of Venezuelans in New York.

00:11:48.000 I'm like, yeah, they're there because they had to flee a regime that was going to murder them.

00:11:52.000 Like, that's why they're there.

00:11:53.000 And they're all over the rest of the country because of that.

00:11:55.000 Not because for a while, it was so bad they used to call it the Maduro diet because the average citizen lost 18 pounds because of food deprivation.

00:12:04.000 I was in Brussels yesterday, and there were 200 Venezuelans with flags in the center of a city square, also celebrating in the middle of a snowstorm.

00:12:13.000 So, yeah, there's a lot of happy people that they have a chance to breathe free.

00:12:18.000 It is up to them.

00:12:20.000 It's up to the Venezuelan people to finish the job now. 1.00

00:12:23.000 The inevitability of the regime of a criminal element has been definitely kneecapped.

00:12:31.000 Now, I think it's better than, I guess, going with a full deck of cards and taking them all out right away and leaving a vacuum.

00:12:40.000 But now the Venezuelan people have to rise up and make sure that they finish the job and restore some semblance of rule of law instead of the gangsterism that's been kind of compounding for the last couple of decades.

00:12:52.000 So, you've been in these war theaters your whole life.

00:12:55.000 You were a Navy SEAL, you founded Blackwater.

00:12:57.000 You understand what's going on there.

00:12:59.000 An interesting point that you mentioned, and you saw yesterday, or I guess, you know, the pictures of the Chinese there probably either making oil deals or selling them weapons.

00:13:07.000 But you said, you know, there's Chinese weaponry that was defending this stuff.

00:13:10.000 There's Russian weaponry that defending this.

00:13:12.000 This wasn't just an attack on sort of a third world banana republic, even if that's how that government functioned.

00:13:18.000 These guys were protected by some serious technology, by some serious operators.

00:13:23.000 Again, Cuba's known to sort of have that militarized intelligence for a long time.

00:13:28.000 32 Cubans were killed.

00:13:29.000 They were all there probably doing the same thing in our own hemisphere, in our own backyard.

00:13:34.000 I guess, does that make the operation that much more of a success?

00:13:37.000 Because it wasn't, again, you're not just going after a bunch of guys that are farmers.

00:13:42.000 You're going after up against some of the most expensive technology in the world outside of the United States.

00:13:49.000 They had a not insignificant level of sophistication, jammers, good communications, night vision, thermal, lots of man pads, lots of surface-to-air missiles shoulder-fired to take out a helicopter and aircraft, lots of threats that could have really killed Americans.

00:14:09.000 And they got away, they got in, they got the job done, and got out clean.

00:14:13.000 It was an amazing work.

00:14:15.000 All personnel in the Department of War should be extremely proud of what happened because, and it sends a fantastic message to the rest of the world.

00:14:22.000 Because I can tell you, there is no country on the planet that could do what just happened.

00:14:27.000 Not a one.

00:14:29.000 I agree with that.

00:14:30.000 That's amazing to see.

00:14:31.000 You know, however you feel about it, I mean, just being able to pull off that kind of operation is amazing.

00:14:34.000 I mean, you've been bringing up sort of the issue of narco-trafficking.

00:14:38.000 You've brought it to light for years.

00:14:40.000 We've talked about it on the show the last time we were on.

00:14:43.000 How does what actually happened compare to the operational concepts you sort of envisioned?

00:14:50.000 Because it is a narco-regime. 0.74

00:14:51.000 It's been killing 100,000 Americans a year because of fentanyl.

00:14:55.000 I mean, it's two Vietnams. 0.95

00:14:56.000 These guys were actually doing that.

00:14:57.000 Maduro, even before during Biden, there was still a warrant out for his arrest for narco-trafficking. 0.56

00:15:04.000 There's a lot of hypocrisy now.

00:15:06.000 The sound bites that they're talking about now versus a couple years ago when they were in power have changed drastically.

00:15:13.000 But how do you think what happened compared to what you would have envisioned?

00:15:18.000 Look, there's 34 known, effectively industrial narcotics processing facilities in Venezuela, not some lab in the jungle, actually commercial metal buildings with industrial power, concrete floors, producing narcotics that get shipped to the United States and to Europe.

00:15:36.000 And so that first step in undoing that was taken on Saturday.

00:15:41.000 The most difficult, dangerous piece was done.

00:15:44.000 And now you can move towards better governance.

00:15:47.000 And so that will ultimately be a fight that the Venezuelans have to have inside to say, are you going to have a rule of law society or are you going to have a narco-society?

00:15:55.000 But that is for Venezuelan patriots to take up that cause and make that happen.

00:16:02.000 The Venezuelan regime was making money really three ways on oil sales, which have been curtailed, and they might be put under a quarantine so that it's at least closely watched where the oil goes.

00:16:17.000 Second was gold, a huge amount of gold that was mined through a lot of nationalized concessions, packaged and flown to Turkey and to the Gulf.

00:16:29.000 And third was, of course, narcotics trafficking.

00:16:32.000 It was mostly a transshipment point and a processing point.

00:16:35.000 It's not really grown.

00:16:36.000 The cocaine is grown still in Colombia and Peru and Bolivia, but they definitely made money significantly off the trafficking.

00:16:45.000 So you take away or you impair those three flows.

00:16:48.000 The government had limited time as it is.

00:16:51.000 Taking out Maduro was the right thing to do.

00:16:54.000 And now they'll move towards some kind of election, I would imagine, in some months and try to stabilize the country.

00:17:04.000 But there needs to be reliable security forces that are actually in favor of the government instead of effectively the gang that was running the country.

00:17:12.000 So what message, Eric, do you think does this send to other authoritarian regimes in the hemisphere, whether it's Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, and to their backers in Russia, China, and Iran?

00:17:25.000 Because I mean, I think that's the part that people are oftentimes missing.

00:17:28.000 Like, you know, they're like, well, you know, get your own oil.

00:17:31.000 Well, you know, why is America's only in there because of the oil?

00:17:33.000 It's like, yeah, why do you think Russia, China, and Iran are there?

00:17:35.000 You think they're in there for anything else other than the oil or whatever it could be?

00:17:39.000 At least, you know, does this not give us a lot of control over that also?

00:17:43.000 I don't want China having their oil supply off of our border and dependent on that and taking advantage of that when American companies built up an infrastructure, spend time, and then they're just thrown out blindly.

00:17:53.000 But what message does this send to the other operators of those regimes in those areas about America and what's going to happen in our backyard?

00:18:04.000 Well, I think it would be like opening up a corporate board discussion by coming into the room and laying a loaded 45 pistol on the table.

00:18:14.000 It's just a very different conversation when the other thug regimes see what just happened to one of their former colleagues.

00:18:23.000 And now I'd say they'd be more like a little kid in the back of the classroom, kind of with their head down saying, please don't pick me, teacher.

00:18:33.000 It is a fantastic reinvigoration of the Monroe Doctrine.

00:18:37.000 I like what your dad called it, the Donroe Doctrine.

00:18:40.000 I think it was brilliant.

00:18:42.000 But look, America first does mean knowing what's going on in our hemisphere and keeping criminal states out of it.

00:18:51.000 The money that Venezuela was spreading around to other super crazy left-wing regimes does actually hurt America because those countries, when they're suffering under crazy leftism, when they collapse, they tend to send their illegal migrants, their refugees, to America trying to seek better governance.

00:19:10.000 So it's good governance matters in the Western hemisphere.

00:19:14.000 We can't run the whole world, of course, but at least we should start and keep our backyard cleaned up and organized.

00:19:20.000 Yeah, you mentioned sort of the information that we drive from this.

00:19:24.000 What are the intelligence implications now that Maduro has been captured?

00:19:28.000 Again, he was being guarded by Cuban intelligence agents.

00:19:31.000 We took many of them out.

00:19:32.000 So what does stability and law and order look like moving forward?

00:19:37.000 Who can we trust?

00:19:37.000 Who can't we trust?

00:19:39.000 How do you see this playing out?

00:19:41.000 I'm a fan of Maria Karina Machado.

00:19:44.000 I'm a fan of Enrique Camprilas and Gonzalez, who actually won by name, the election that happened a year and a half ago.

00:19:54.000 Beyond that, the jury is out.

00:19:57.000 Those are the people that expose themselves to real risk.

00:20:01.000 I mean, Gonzalez's son is still locked up in a Venezuelan prison.

00:20:06.000 It's kind of ridiculous for the other regime people of Venezuela to be complaining about Maduro that they need proof of life.

00:20:12.000 Well, listen, provide proof of life for a lot of the people that you've locked up completely illegally for the mere desire of speaking free and wanting to oppose a poorly run, corrupt socialist government.

00:20:28.000 Yeah, no, I mean, again, we've talked about it in the past.

00:20:31.000 I've had Maria Carina Machada on the show. 1.00

00:20:33.000 You know, Maduro lost the July 2024 election by, I guess it was like 40 points.

00:20:38.000 I mean, she was like a clear winner.

00:20:40.000 They wouldn't even let her be on the ballot.

00:20:41.000 So she put in basically a proxy of the gentleman you mentioned earlier, but Maduro just stole the election.

00:20:46.000 He ignored it entirely.

00:20:49.000 So what now?

00:20:49.000 Do you think the VP there who's assumed at least temporary control, do you think they try to do that same thing if whether it's her or someone else comes in and actually wins?

00:20:59.000 I think this certainly opens the door for others who would not have taken the risks that Maria took, assuming that, I mean, if she went to a business to get a lunch, they'd shut down the business for even serving her.

00:21:12.000 She had to do my show literally from a safe room, just talking about what was actually going on.

00:21:18.000 But how do you make sure that the choice of the people is implemented?

00:21:23.000 Because this isn't a traditional transition process.

00:21:26.000 How do we make it work so we have actual allies in power as well?

00:21:30.000 Because I think that's important.

00:21:31.000 Having a narco-terrorist in charge is a lot different than a common sense person who may put Venezuela first for themselves, but will probably realize that being an ally of the United States is definitely their best bet as opposed to Iran or Russia or wherever it is, especially in the region. 0.51

00:21:48.000 This is where the unique authorities of the CIA should be exercised to the maximum.

00:21:54.000 Because if you think about the continuum of statecraft, you have diplomacy and embassies.

00:21:59.000 On one end, they can probably handle 10% of stuff.

00:22:02.000 The other end is the military, right?

00:22:04.000 And they clearly demonstrated they can handle that unusual, extreme situation.

00:22:08.000 But the other, the murky middle, that 80%, is the intelligence world.

00:22:12.000 And you've got to get some CIA stations opened up there where they can observe what the regime is doing in real time themselves, not just depend on Venezuelans reporting and phoning it in to try to shape the reality on the ground so that you move towards reform, you get towards an election, you can start to rebuild some parts of the security force that are not beholden only to the very corrupt regime.

00:22:37.000 And you kind of pair off the middle that way.

00:22:42.000 And you make deals with the really bad ones that they can leave.

00:22:47.000 Or if they want to get it on with our countrymen, they can choose to do that.

00:22:50.000 But it's almost like a Plomo E Plato offer that they were giving to anybody else.

00:22:55.000 Yeah, because I guess that's a position.

00:22:57.000 That's the real question, right?

00:22:58.000 How deep does the rot go, right?

00:22:59.000 If it's just the leader and a couple people, but if it goes all the way down into the generals and to the ranks, do you ever get that chance to go back?

00:23:07.000 There's like 3,000 generals.

00:23:11.000 And the fact is, even amongst the military, Maria Carino Machado and Mundo Gonzalez, that ticket also carried the day by a vast majority.

00:23:20.000 So even the military was sick of the insane socialists that were running at wrecking the country.

00:23:25.000 So, you know, I guess related to all of that, you know, you've operated in conflict zones around the world.

00:23:25.000 That's interesting.

00:23:31.000 What does success look like in Venezuela five months from now and five years from now?

00:23:37.000 And then beyond that?

00:23:37.000 Because, you know, again, you could have a great operation that's, you know, it's joy.

00:23:41.000 And then, you know, without the backfill, without, you know, sort of the substance there, you know, it can go different directions.

00:23:48.000 You know, what do you think five months from now needs to look like?

00:23:50.000 Is that elections?

00:23:51.000 And then five years from now, what does that look like?

00:23:55.000 I would say five months from now that the country, that the economy is starting to turn around, that all those diaspora that got pushed out because of the social incompetence are packing their bags and they're moving back to Venezuela. 0.78

00:24:07.000 Look, Venezuela has unbelievable natural resources underground, more oil, more proven oil reserves than the rest of the world, any other country, unbelievable gold, coal, other minerals in the ground.

00:24:22.000 They have a lot of wealth.

00:24:24.000 With just a semblance of decent governance, the country will attract a lot of people.

00:24:29.000 Their economy will roar and it will be a value added to South America, not a super negative cancerous tumor like it was.

00:24:37.000 So perhaps this was a shot of chemotherapy that the country needed.

00:24:42.000 And now they got to get their, they got the citizens have to get their act together. 0.99

00:24:46.000 The wealthy Venezuelan diaspora have to get off their asses from Florida and go back and start to retake their country. 1.00

00:24:54.000 So, you know, we spoke a little while ago about sort of the impact on what it means to the other regimes in the area, whether it's Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, et cetera. 0.95

00:25:03.000 How do you find this impacts other conflict zones and war zones abroad?

00:25:08.000 Right now, obviously, you got everything going on in Ukraine.

00:25:11.000 You have stuff going on in Israel.

00:25:13.000 How significant is all of this in regards to that?

00:25:16.000 Is there any correlation?

00:25:18.000 Does it change the playing field, so to speak, in any of those areas in your mind?

00:25:23.000 It's a one-night shot heard around the world because you saw full military spectrum capability from naval power that can project air power,

00:25:34.000 air power that can come over the beach and smash pretty much enemy air defenses at will, taking out bases, taking out bunkers, taking out strategic targets, including very high-end personnel that you can put on the ground in the center of your enemy's capital and go blackbag their president out of this.

00:25:53.000 And by the way, Caracas isn't exactly an easy place.

00:25:56.000 It's not like a flat area like Baghdad or something like that.

00:25:59.000 I mean, it's literally in a big bowl at 3,000 feet of altitude.

00:26:02.000 I mean, it's a harder target than a lot of other capital cities.

00:26:07.000 And right, helicopters perform differently trying to hover at 3,500 feet than at sea level.

00:26:14.000 All those things really matter in a really high air defense environment.

00:26:19.000 And it's not like the Venezuelans didn't have any heads up because we had a Navy fleet, significant naval combat power lurking off their shore for months at a time.

00:26:31.000 So the Venezuelans claimed they were getting ready.

00:26:33.000 Apparently, they were not ready.

00:26:35.000 I did hear a particularly bad fact that a staffer from Hakeem Jeffries called down to Maduro trying to tip them off that a raid was coming.

00:26:44.000 Fortunately, he was already in custody and the big bangs had already happened.

00:26:48.000 But that proves, yes.

00:26:50.000 I mean, that's not treason?

00:26:53.000 I mean, you endanger the lives of American soldiers in real time.

00:26:56.000 I mean, I can't think of how do we, how do we, if it's, how do we find out, A, if it's true?

00:27:01.000 And if it is, how do you actually effectuate real action?

00:27:04.000 Because that, that deserves some serious accountability.

00:27:07.000 Clearly, the U.S., the NSA tracks all those international phone calls going to overseas locations.

00:27:15.000 If there was one that came from that staffer indicating that if perhaps the gang of eight had been briefed, that that person needs to be tried and sentence carried out very swiftly and most severely.

00:27:29.000 Speaking of that kind of stuff, can you talk a little bit more about the Mark Kelly situation?

00:27:34.000 In Mark Kelly seemed to be actively trying to prevent this operation from even happening.

00:27:38.000 He tried, you know, essentially, you know, creating an insurrection in and of itself, telling military personnel while still actively involved in the military, even though he's a sitting senator now to basically disobey the commander-in-chief.

00:27:51.000 Can you talk about that situation and how you feel as someone who's, again, been a big part of the chain of command for a long time?

00:27:58.000 Yeah, I mean, they were all up in arms just at the prospect of shooting drug boats.

00:28:03.000 These are not fishermen.

00:28:05.000 These are drug boats carrying tons of processed, illegal drugs, in many cases, deadly drugs, to American waters.

00:28:16.000 And I say good on the Department of War for taking those shots.

00:28:19.000 And they sponsored that very choreographed video to the soundbites all came in at the same time.

00:28:28.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:28:29.000 It was a choreographed media hit.

00:28:31.000 And it'd be very interesting to see who was the money behind sponsoring that.

00:28:34.000 But the fact is, if Mark Kelly had worn a uniform for that long, he understands the uniform code of military justice and that there is accountability up and down the chain, and there needs to be.

00:28:47.000 And so it's definitely worth looking at it.

00:28:49.000 And a jury of his peers of other 06s and probably some other flag and some flag officers can determine whether he knowingly, if they actually bring it to full court martial, if there was intentionality in doing that.

00:29:07.000 It's fair to have people looked at for intentionally undermining good order and discipline of the chain of command.

00:29:13.000 Well, Eric, thank you very much.

00:29:15.000 Really appreciate it.

00:29:16.000 As always, look forward to seeing you in the not too distant future.

00:29:19.000 Thanks for being here, and we'll talk to you in a little bit.

00:29:22.000 Okay.

00:29:23.000 Have a good night, Don.

00:29:23.000 Thanks.

00:29:24.000 Do well, man.

00:29:24.000 Really interesting stuff.

00:29:27.000 And guys, my news rundown is coming up in just a few moments.

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00:30:12.000 Now, guys, while Democrats are busy crying about norms and international law, you know who is actually celebrating?

00:30:22.000 Common sense Venezuelan Americans who've been waiting for this day for decades and who are ecstatic.

00:30:30.000 In Durrell, Florida, okay, a place where we have a huge golf course.

00:30:33.000 So I'm there all the time.

00:30:34.000 I see the people of Venezuela.

00:30:36.000 I know them.

00:30:37.000 They've talked to me about this for years.

00:30:39.000 They love it.

00:30:40.000 But also in other cities around the world, they were waving both American and Venezuelan flags.

00:30:47.000 They were crying tears of joy. 0.65

00:30:50.000 That's the difference, guys, between real leadership and the pathetic weakness we saw last year under Biden. 0.82

00:31:16.000 Again, guys, 0.87

00:31:52.000 that's the difference. 0.89

00:31:53.000 Okay, we went from pathetic weakness for the last four years under Biden to that.

00:31:58.000 And the people who know, the people who are impacted the most, they get it.

00:32:04.000 And if you didn't know, well, now you do.

00:32:09.000 Aquí lo espero en Miraflores.

00:32:11.000 No se tarde en llegar.

00:32:13.000 Cobarde.

00:32:14.000 And now if you don't know, now you know.

00:32:19.000 I'm a church cabinet, your fish. 1.00

00:32:20.000 Think niggas don't make shit. 1.00

00:32:22.000 Stink tank datas by Detroit players. 1.00

00:32:25.000 Venezuela Americans, again, people who actually lived under Maduro's tyranny are celebrating in the streets while Democrats in Washington are having a complete and total meltdown.

00:32:39.000 But of course, if my father cured cancer, the Democrats would be pro-cancer.

00:32:45.000 They'd say he's not giving the cancer cells enough time to develop and to become nice, good cells.

00:32:50.000 They'd come up with something.

00:32:52.000 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a guy who has never met a criminal that he didn't want to coddle, came out and said the operation was reckless.

00:33:04.000 Reckless?

00:33:05.000 You know what's reckless, Chuck?

00:33:07.000 Letting 100,000 Americans die from drugs every year while you do nothing, nothing at all.

00:33:15.000 That's reckless.

00:33:16.000 And back in 2020, just so we understand where things go, back in 2020, this was little Chucky Schumer talking about the Maduro regime.

00:33:28.000 And let's just say it did not age well.

00:33:33.000 Not know that he was being recorded.

00:33:35.000 Listen to what he said about President Donald Trump and Nicholas Maduro in 2020.

00:33:39.000 He brags about all these things he wants to do or is doing, but his actions belie his words.

00:33:44.000 And the president brags about his Venezuela policy?

00:33:48.000 Give us a break.

00:33:49.000 He hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime.

00:33:51.000 The Maduro regime is more powerful today and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.

00:33:57.000 Fast forward six years to right now, the Maduro regime is done thanks to President Donald Trump.

00:34:03.000 And here's what this guy said today: We have the War Powers Act.

00:34:08.000 That's a privilege resolution, which means the Republicans can't block it.

00:34:12.000 Tim Kaine and I and Rand Paul are sponsors of it.

00:34:15.000 It's going to come to the floor this week.

00:34:18.000 And if it is voted for, if it's voted positively in both houses, then the president can't do another thing in Venezuela without the okay of Congress.

00:34:27.000 We have to pass.

00:34:28.000 How do these Democrats do it? 0.99

00:34:30.000 It must be exhausting keeping up with your own hypocrisy. 0.99

00:34:33.000 But wait, guys, it gets better. 0.98

00:34:36.000 Tim Kaine?

00:34:37.000 Remember him?

00:34:37.000 Oh, yeah.

00:34:38.000 Hillary's running mate? 1.00

00:34:41.000 He's almost as bad as Tim Waltz.

00:34:43.000 He called it a sickening return to American dominance in the Western hemisphere.

00:34:52.000 I don't know, I kind of want to be dominant in my own hemisphere, but that's just me. 0.88

00:34:55.000 I'm not a freaking insane soyboy libtardem. 0.99

00:34:59.000 Of course, if Democrats had their way, we wouldn't do anything other than spend billions of dollars on USAID money, on queer musical theaters, in programs in Caracas. 0.84

00:35:12.000 That was the Joe Biden policy.

00:35:15.000 We'll spend $100 billion to bring the trans movement to Venezuela and hope that that somehow effectuates change. 1.00

00:35:22.000 No, now we're going with action.

00:35:25.000 And as for Joe Biden, well, he doesn't even know what day it is, but years ago, years ago, before he became dementia-riddled, he actually wanted to do exactly what Team Trump accomplished.

00:35:40.000 But we know Biden could never have pulled it off.

00:35:45.000 We are fighting and losing a war on our own soil.

00:35:49.000 Let's go after the drug lords where they live. 0.82

00:35:52.000 With an international strike force, there must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists, and they must know it. 1.00

00:36:01.000 How the times they are a changing, folks.

00:36:04.000 It's absolutely amazing.

00:36:06.000 I mean, think about it.

00:36:07.000 There was a time where Democrats actually weren't insane.

00:36:11.000 Can you believe it?

00:36:12.000 Like, that actually existed.

00:36:13.000 That was a thing.

00:36:15.000 And the same Democrats who spent years telling us that Trump was a threat to democracy, that he was a dictator himself, that he was dangerous, are now mad that he's too tough on dictators.

00:36:28.000 Remember, no kings, no kings, guys.

00:36:30.000 Now they're defending dictators.

00:36:32.000 I mean, it's rich. 1.00

00:36:34.000 It's stupid. 1.00

00:36:35.000 But, you know, they're never going to appreciate the full irony of this. 1.00

00:36:40.000 Kamala Harris herself condemned the operation for no actual reason, of course, and I'm sure she couldn't articulate it in anything other than a ridiculous word salad.

00:36:50.000 And she seemed to forget that she herself also endorsed the bounty that was actually on Maduro's head.

00:36:59.000 So when my father actually removes a real dictator, a fugitive indicted in a U.S. federal court in the southern district of New York, guys.

00:37:08.000 So this is not exactly a conservative venue, okay?

00:37:11.000 A guy who stole elections, quite literally, lost by 40 points.

00:37:15.000 Didn't matter.

00:37:16.000 Imprisoned his opponents, trafficked drugs, sent us Trendelaragua, gang members, human trafficking, drug trafficking, violent thugs, and literally starved his own people. 0.78

00:37:31.000 Suddenly now it's different?

00:37:33.000 I mean, Trump derangement syndrome knows no limits.

00:37:38.000 They don't care.

00:37:39.000 Trump can do anything.

00:37:40.000 He can do the greatest things in the world.

00:37:42.000 It does not matter.

00:37:44.000 They cannot be satisfied.

00:37:46.000 They cannot accept it, and they never will.

00:37:49.000 And meanwhile, the communist mayor of New York, for some reason, thinks his opinion on this somehow matters.

00:37:57.000 I guess communists do like to show solidarity to one another, especially when one of them gets captured.

00:38:03.000 As it turns out, Mandani's staff has a lot in common with the Maduro regime.

00:38:09.000 They both hate private property.

00:38:12.000 They both hate freedom.

00:38:13.000 And they both hate rugged individualism.

00:38:17.000 And honestly, I guess they're not a fan of white people either.

00:38:22.000 Their words.

00:38:23.000 I think the reality is, is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good.

00:38:32.000 And we are going to transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently.

00:38:43.000 And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one. 0.91

00:38:58.000 Yeah, guys, remember, that's their words, not mine.

00:39:01.000 That was Mandami's tenant director in her own words.

00:39:07.000 I mean, think about that.

00:39:08.000 We're going to make sure we impact white people more. 0.91

00:39:10.000 We're going to make sure. 1.00

00:39:11.000 I mean, these people are insane. 0.99

00:39:14.000 And so much of the left is just entirely fake and manufactured. 0.83

00:39:20.000 While Venezuelan Americans were celebrating in the streets, while families who fled Maduro's tyranny were crying tears of joy, you know what some of the leftists in America were doing?

00:39:32.000 They were paid protesting against the operation.

00:39:35.000 Of course they were being paid, guys.

00:39:37.000 Of course they were.

00:39:38.000 We all know it, right?

00:39:39.000 They just changed the flag.

00:39:40.000 Nothing changed.

00:39:41.000 They get a paycheck.

00:39:42.000 They grab a flag.

00:39:43.000 They protest.

00:39:44.000 It's not real.

00:39:45.000 It's all fake.

00:39:47.000 And they have no idea what they're actually talking about.

00:39:50.000 Now, they're protesting for the cause, but they can't tell you a thing about it because they're just paid to show up, to make it seem like they're doing something, to make it seem like they care so that the media will use them, try to show how terrible this is.

00:40:05.000 This is the sentiment of the people.

00:40:07.000 It's not.

00:40:08.000 Okay?

00:40:09.000 They're paid to show up and to be against anything and everything that Donald Trump does.

00:40:14.000 It's all part of the left's fake outrage.

00:40:17.000 Fake protest and fake organizing machine.

00:40:22.000 What do you know about Nicolas Maduro?

00:40:26.000 I don't know much, bro.

00:40:28.000 But I'm here with Central CSO and we fight against all this with like the Trump administration, ICE, police brutality.

00:40:39.000 So we're just here in support of all that right now.

00:40:41.000 What does Maduro have to do with all that? 0.99

00:40:45.000 Shit, bro, you know, but we're here in support. 0.99

00:40:47.000 I mean, it makes sense. 1.00

00:40:48.000 You know, Nicolas Maduro is responsible for almost 8 million people leaving Venezuela, like a quarter of their population over the last decade.

00:40:56.000 I mean, he's contributed a lot, right?

00:40:58.000 Yeah.

00:41:00.000 But, you know, we're just here supporting.

00:41:04.000 You know what I mean?

00:41:05.000 Yeah.

00:41:06.000 Go Nicolas Maduro.

00:41:07.000 Can we do that?

00:41:07.000 Let's do it.

00:41:08.000 Go.

00:41:11.000 We're just here with an organization, obviously some sort of, you know, probably Soros-funded super PAC, just doing what we're told.

00:41:18.000 We don't know anything about it.

00:41:19.000 We can't tell you anything.

00:41:20.000 Seems like a great guy, I guess, but I wouldn't know because he doesn't know anything.

00:41:24.000 That's what they do every time.

00:41:27.000 If you did that, that's not an anomaly.

00:41:29.000 That's probably everyone there.

00:41:30.000 You're certainly not going to find actual Venezuelans there.

00:41:33.000 The Democrat Party is in a state of complete delusion.

00:41:37.000 Tim Waltz, by the way, now isn't even running for re-election after Nick Shirley was on the show last week, exposed Waltz's Somali daycare fraud scandal because he doesn't want to be bothered with running an election.

00:41:51.000 He wants to really focus on the work at hand, which probably means funneling more of your taxpayer dollars into the hands of crooked Somalis who are operating vacant daycare centers. 1.00

00:41:59.000 That's probably what he wants to focus on.

00:42:01.000 He'll probably run a super PAC for them.

00:42:04.000 They'll put him on CNN and MSDNC and the usual suspects.

00:42:08.000 He'll have a great life for defrauding the American public.

00:42:11.000 Hopefully the FBI, the DOJ gets their act together and actually does something about it.

00:42:16.000 We'll see.

00:42:17.000 I imagine there's plenty of evidence.

00:42:19.000 So let's hope that there's some accountability.

00:42:22.000 And Democrats like Walt, a few months ago, were shouting, no kings, you know, the usual, again, the no kings thing.

00:42:30.000 Now, but now again, they're upset that drug-trafficking dictators are being captured.

00:42:37.000 I mean, think about how insane that is.

00:42:38.000 I mean, who's more of a king, Donald Trump or Nicholas Maduro at that time?

00:42:43.000 I mean, huh.

00:42:45.000 They're siding against angel families.

00:42:48.000 They're siding against victims of drug overdoses.

00:42:51.000 And they are against making the Western hemisphere safer for the American people.

00:42:57.000 As my father put it perfectly, the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it a lot.

00:43:05.000 We've superseded it by a lot.

00:43:07.000 Now they call it the Donroad Doctrine.

00:43:09.000 I like to call it the Trump Doctrine.

00:43:11.000 Even has a better ring, but I guess the first one's a little bit more historically accurate in that it rhymes.

00:43:16.000 American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again.

00:43:21.000 And that's exactly how it should be.

00:43:24.000 For too long, we let communist dictators run wild in our own backyard.

00:43:30.000 We let Venezuela become a client state of Russia, Cuba, and Iran.

00:43:36.000 We let them poison our streets with drugs and flood our borders with immigrants. 1.00

00:43:42.000 They didn't send us their best, folks, by the way.

00:43:44.000 They didn't send us their best.

00:43:45.000 They sent us Trendelaragua. 0.57

00:43:48.000 Some great ones came over because they fled because they lost their businesses and everything and they built in America, but the ones that the regimes were sending us, not awesome.

00:43:55.000 They didn't even want them there.

00:43:58.000 Democrats spent four years telling us that America couldn't be energy independent, that we needed to beg OPEC and Maduro for oil, that we had to be responsible global citizens, you know, responsible global citizens and let dictators walk all over us.

00:44:16.000 And what did we get for it?

00:44:17.000 Record high gas prices, 100,000 fentanyl deaths a year, millions of illegal immigrants pouring across our border, crime, human trafficking, and a world that didn't respect us.

00:44:31.000 In less than a year, my father has completely reversed that.

00:44:36.000 We're energy dominant again.

00:44:38.000 We're respected again.

00:44:40.000 We're feared again by the people who should fear us. 0.97

00:44:44.000 The dictators, the terrorists, the drug traffickers, and the thugs.

00:44:49.000 And the Democrats' response? 0.92

00:44:51.000 To side with the narco-terrorist dictator and to cry about international law. 0.91

00:44:57.000 This is who they are.

00:44:59.000 This is what they believe.

00:45:01.000 They would rather see America weak than see my father and ultimately America succeed.

00:45:09.000 But guess what?

00:45:10.000 The American people spoke last November and they're seeing the results.

00:45:16.000 Promises made, promises kept.

00:45:19.000 And the message to every other despot, every other dictator in the world is now crystal clear.

00:45:25.000 You're not safe if you traffic drugs to America.

00:45:28.000 If you threaten American interests, and if you think you can hide, you may want to think again.

00:45:34.000 My father has made it clear America is back and we're not asking permission anymore.

00:45:40.000 To the Democrats, you can keep crying about international law all you want.

00:45:44.000 We've seen how you run roughshod with American law whenever it suits your interests.

00:45:49.000 I've been through it myself. 1.00

00:45:51.000 The American people see through your garbage. 1.00

00:45:54.000 They know you care more about protecting criminals than protecting Americans. 1.00

00:45:59.000 They know because you tell them every day.

00:46:01.000 And they're going to remember that in 2026 and in 2028.

00:46:06.000 And to my father and to the incredible military special forces, the FBI, the DEA, and everyone involved in this operation, thank you.

00:46:16.000 Thank you for having the courage to do what needed to be done.

00:46:20.000 Thank you for putting American lives first.

00:46:23.000 Thank you for showing the world what American strength really looks like.

00:46:28.000 This, guys, is what winning feels like.

00:46:31.000 Get used to it.

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