Trump Loses it as Invasion Backfires in his Face

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2:24Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is losing it right now as his invasion of Venezuela did not go as planned. Sure, he captured Nicolas Maduro, but Maduro looks happier than ever. He's given the cameras the thumbs up sign as he is in the federal prison in New York right now, and he was walking into the federal prison wishing people a happy new year's. And I guess Donald Trump just thought, what, the people of Venezuela were going to be like, hey, Donald, let us give you our oil. You can run Venezuela. As Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell said, I'll play this clip in a little bit. He said, Donald Trump couldn't even run a casino.

3:01Ben Meiselas:You expect him to run a country like Venezuela of 28 million people? The people of Venezuela do not want Donald Trump to run or operate Venezuela or occupy Venezuela. We're hearing from the former vice president, now the interim president of Venezuela, Delce Rodriguez. And she's saying that she absolutely does not want Donald Trump to be occupying Venezuela. She says there's only one true leader of Venezuela, and that's Maduro. Also, the governors of the various regions loyal to Maduro, at least as of this recording show, no signs of surrendering or just handing over Venezuelan oil to Donald Trump.

3:42Ben Meiselas:At the same time, Donald Trump threw the main opposition leader, Maria Corrino Machado, under the bus. I mean, people expected that she was going to be the person who would be installed as the new leader of Venezuela. She was the main opposition leader. She won the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, she's someone who's supported by the Europeans, the Canadians, Australians, and others as a pro-democracy voice. That's at least, I'm just letting you know how they describe her. There are people who describe her differently, but I think she expected that she would be the new leader of Venezuela. But Donald Trump says the people of Venezuela do not respect Maria Corina Machado.

4:26Ben Meiselas:He goes, she's a nice lady, but she doesn't have what it takes to actually rule and lead Venezuela. Trump says that he wants to be the one ruling Venezuela and occupying it for some uncertain period of time in order to take their oil away and give it to the American oil companies. I mean, I just think that Donald Trump probably cut some deal with Putin and Xi Jinping that he would take the Western Hemisphere and Xi Jinping can have Asia and Putin can take all of Europe and they would just share the spoils of invading all of these nations and extracting resources? What other justification can you have for Donald Trump's, the way Donald Trump is behaving right now?

5:06Ben Meiselas:It just seems to make sense if you kind of put those puzzle pieces together right there. Now, Donald Trump's been making deranged post after deranged post all night. I'm talking about like 100 posts, post, post, post. And he's making posts like this again. On a day where the United States invaded a country, Venezuela, Donald Trump says it is an occupation to take their oil and that he's going to run it for an indefinite period of time, right? While the American people, I guess, want to see like some semblance of stability here. This is what Donald Trump is actually posting on his social media platform.

5:42Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump says the CIA overthrew the 2020 election, and that's why he lost in 2020. This is a real post that Donald Trump made. Donald Trump reposts an account that says the Central Intelligence Agency toppled the United States government on November 3rd, 2020, live on national TV. And Donald Trump says 2.7 million Trump votes were deleted by Dominion. In 2026, as Donald Trump invades Venezuela, Donald Trump is saying the CIA overthrew the 2020 election. This is what a deranged maniac he is. Donald Trump also says that he is sending yet another warning to Nigeria after invading Venezuela. He says that the Nigerian government better move fast and stop killing the Christians, or Donald Trump says he's going to come into your country, Nigeria, guns a-blazing.

6:38Ben Meiselas:That's the video that Donald Trump put out, that he's going into Nigeria. Guns a-blazing, he says. First, let me be very clear. The Nigerian government is not persecuting Christians the same way Donald Trump claims the South African government is engaged in a genocide of white people in South Africa. Donald Trump is using this as a pretext to try to invade Nigeria. He's already bombed an area of Nigeria and claimed that he was attacking ISIS there, which he previously claimed he totally dismantled, but he said he had to attack it because they're going after the Christians. The terrorism that does exist in Nigeria impacts Muslims more than it does Christians.

7:18Ben Meiselas:And Nigeria is more tribal than religious based in any event. But what Donald Trump is doing, let's be clear, who has the largest oil reserves right now, basically in the world, other than Venezuela, which Donald Trump invaded and wants to take that oil for the oil companies, Nigeria. Nigeria also has massive lithium deposits, which it has deals with China over. So that's what this is all about. It's about invading and taking the rare earth elements. And that's what Donald Trump is doing. So just think about it. In the past 24 hours, Donald Trump has now also threatened to invade Nigeria, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba.

7:54Ben Meiselas:Oh, and Donald Trump has made social media posts from the Trump War Room account with a cartoon that says the Don Roe Doctrine. And it is a cartoon image of Donald Trump. This is what Trump posted, an image of Donald Trump stepping on South America, Central America, North America, Canada, and Alaska with his foot kind of in the area of Northwest Canada, basically saying that he's going to be taking over this territory. He's calling it the Don Roe Doctrine. And he repeated that during his speech. He goes, the Don Roe Doctrine is that he's going to use American power to dominate the Western Hemisphere.

8:33Ben Meiselas:And I've talked about spheres of influence before, that Trump is saying his sphere of influence for the United States is the Western Hemisphere. It must dominate the Western Hemisphere, that Russia can basically take all of Europe and China can take all of Asia. That's how Donald Trump views the world. It is very, very dangerous, but it's important that you understand what his demented perspective is and how that will move us closer to a world war if we aren't already in a cold or medium heated world war right now. Donald Trump is also making posts like this. He's accusing Governor Walz, I should say defaming Governor Walz of Minnesota, of assassinating Melissa Hortman, the former Speaker of the House who was assassinated by that MAGA guy over the summer.

9:19Ben Meiselas:Remember Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered brutally by that masked MAGA person. Remember what that went down? Donald Trump is posting a video that said, did Tim Walls have Melissa Hortman assassinated? And this deranged video is like, oh, she was exposing fraud in Minnesota. So Governor Walls was the one who actually had her killed. So what Donald Trump is posting, the CIA overthrow the 2020 election, The Don Rowe Doctrine, he's accusing Governor Walz and defaming Governor Walz of murdering Melissa Hortman. I mean, how utterly despicable. But let's not forget what also was supposed to take place today.

10:03Ben Meiselas:What was supposed to take place was that the Epstein files, the DOJ was supposed to prepare a report outlining if they made redactions to the Epstein files. and they were supposed to prepare a report about where they searched and what documents they turned over, what documents they didn't turn over. That was due. They blew that deadline as well, the same way they blew the deadline of December 19th, which was the Epstein Transparency Act deadline. The Epstein Transparency Act also called for today being the day where the DOJ had to write a report about its document review, why it made redactions.

10:45Ben Meiselas:And so it's just very coincidental that while that takes place, you have this wag the dog moment where Donald Trump invades Venezuela. He's now accusing the CIA of tampering with the 2020 election. He's accusing Governor Walz of assassination. He's threatening to invade every other country. Let's be very clear what this is. This is Donald Trump's effort to distract from the Epstein files. And that's obviously what he's trying to do. We're not going to let him do this as Donald Trump and the DOJ are engaged in a vile cover-up of a child sex trafficking ring. To show you some more photos right here of Nicolas Maduro, you see the photo of Maduro here.

11:25Ben Meiselas:There he is. Thumbs up again. The Trump Rapid Response account, Rapid Response 47, posted this video. They called it Perp Walked, and it's Nicolas Maduro walking with FBI agents, and he wishes people a happy new year. Take a look at this video that they posted on the Rapid Response account. Here, play this clip.

11:52Good night.

11:55Happy new year.

11:58Ben Meiselas:We're also getting this data in, folks, as well. This is the latest YouGov poll. support for the U.S. running Venezuela, occupying Venezuela. Currently right now, significantly more Americans oppose occupying Venezuela than support it. Only 16 % of Democrats support, I don't know who these 16 % are, support occupying Venezuela. 26 % of independents support occupying Venezuela. 60 % of Republicans, though, support occupying Venezuela. That tells you all you need to know right there about all of the, about these various political parties. Notably as well, French President Emmanuel Macron states the following, I spoke with Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader of Venezuela.

12:49Ben Meiselas:I fully support her call for liberation and the protection of political prisoners of Nicolas Maduro's regime. Like all Venezuelans, she can count on France's support to raise her voice in favor of a peaceful democratic transition. Notably as well, Jim Scudo reports, sources in the Venezuela opposition tell me that the opposition has been in touch with governments across the world following the arrest of Nicolas Maduro. Those countries include France, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, and Paraguay, who the opposition says expressed their support for restoring the will of the people in Venezuela. Note the country not on the list.

13:27Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump does not want her to run Venezuela. Trump wants to run Venezuela. He's jealous of her for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. And also Donald Trump doesn't want there to be democracy in Venezuela. Trump wants there to be authoritarian puppets who give him the oil for the oil companies. Trump doesn't want Europe to have any influence there or Canada to have any influence there. Trump wants it all for himself. Let's just call it out what it is. I want to share this with you as well. You're seeing some of the protests, massive marches in New York City against Trump's war in Venezuela, massive protest in Chicago, massive protest in many cities across the United States.

14:07Ben Meiselas:Let me share with you what was said during a speech by New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. He says he called Donald Trump yesterday morning to voice his disagreement with the aggression in Venezuela and capture of Maduro. Here's what Mamdani said. Let's play this clip right here. As well as other members of my team, I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act and to make clear that it was an opposition based on being opposed to a pursuit of regime change, to the violation of federal international

15:02Ben Meiselas:And I think this is a great line by Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell, who is running for governor of California. Here, he says that Donald Trump can't run a casino. Now he thinks he can run a country in South America with 28 million people. Here's what Congress member Swalwell says. Let's play this clip right here. Are you with them? Well, I do. And, you know, I talk to Californians all over the state and going into Venezuela and quote running that country ranks at about 200th on their priorities. They're not focused on Venezuela. They're focused on the cost in Ventura and Vallejo, the rent in Los Angeles and the grocery prices in Pasadena.

15:42And they have no faith that Donald Trump can run a country who couldn't run a casino. And now he's going to run a country in South America while we watch as he fails to run a country in North America. That doesn't add up. And neither does this whole concept that we're going to get the oil from Venezuela and that it will pay for itself. Essentially, we heard that over 20 years ago from George Bush that we'd get the oil from Iraq and that cost us three trillion dollars.

16:10Ben Meiselas:So utterly deranged behavior by Donald Trump. We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers together. And thank you all so much for watching.

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