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Wesley Joyce on Is the Trump administration aiming for regime change in Venezuela

Wesley Joyce

Is the Trump administration aiming for regime change in Venezuela

Claims and stances

0:00 Wesley Joyce strongly supports: The Trump administration is actively aiming to oust Maduro from power through a series of unprecedented actions, including placing a bounty on his head, labeling the government a foreign terrorist organization, and authorizing the destruction of seized vessels.
1:26 Wesley Joyce strongly supports: The administration's focus on Venezuela as a 'narco-terrorist' threat is a pretext for expanding executive power, as Venezuela is not a primary producer of the fentanyl that the administration claims to be targeting.

Transcript

0:00 So another thing I've been really wondering about lately, um, I try to keep up with the news, you know, um just stay in the loop.
0:08 And I've been hearing a lot about um Venezuela and what the Trump administration has been aiming to do down there.
0:16 And it everything to me, and I also want to know y'all's thoughts on this because you know, I'm not very well versed in this.
0:25 Um, but to me, it seems like the Trump administration is just completely aiming to oust Maduro.
0:32 I mean, they've got a $50 million bounty on his head.
0:35 Um, and every chance they get is uh a stab at him naturally, as this administration tends to do.
0:43 But regardless of that, I mean, we have taken steps never before taken.
0:49 Um we label another country's government as a foreign terrorist organization.
0:54 Um we start authorizing the Secretary of War to blow up boats that we have historically seized, and we're continuing to seize some of the boats.
1:07 So, how do you distinguish between who gets seized and who gets blown up?
1:12 Um calling them narco-terrorists around every corner, like yes, okay, some of them are narco-terrorists.
1:22 This is a big problem in America.
1:23 People are dying every single day.
1:26 Fentanyl is is one of that they they are not nearly the largest producer of fentanyl.
1:33 I mean, if you wanted to attack, this is the wrong group to be going after if your goals are what they say they are.
1:42 And you know, what and the labeling of them as a foreign terrorist organization to open uh all the doors and give the administration as much power as they have is kind of ridiculous.
1:55 And um to me, it seems like, you know, I'm not sure, you know, I know we have our qualms with Maduro and they want him out, but it seems like this is a blatant stab to oust him, and you know, the media has not really been saying that.
2:14 The media is kind of eating up the narco-terrorist, um, yeah, we blew him up, so what?
2:21 So, yeah, I don't know.
2:23 I guess is is Venezuela really the target we should be going after here?