Transcript of Trump Attacks Venezuela after Disaster

All hell is breaking loose in Venezuela following the catastrophic earthquakes on June 24th, resulting in approximately 2,000 confirmed deaths, tens of thousands of people still missing and likely dead, and over 10,000 people injured. Compounding this catastrophe is that Donald Trump continues to support the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, Delsi Rodriguez, and her right hand, Di Stato Cabellos, the enforcer, and their regime continues to loot and pillage from the people of Venezuela, blocking critical aid, blocking the rescue efforts in Venezuela. And Donald Trump is blocking Maria Corina Machado, the duly elected leader of Venezuela, who was forced to give her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump. Trump is blocking Machado from returning to Venezuela. She wants to be with her people who are suffering there in Venezuela. The people are beyond fed up with this Delcy Rodriguez authoritarian regime, which is basically just the Maduro regime. They need aid, they need support. The Trump regime is pretending that's taking place, but they're supporting Delcy. Maria Corina Machado is trying to get there. She flew to Curaçao and the Trump regime refused to acknowledge her diplomatic status. So she was forced to return to the United States. She doesn't have a Venezuelan passport.

The Trump regime continues to attack Machado. Remember, she was forced to give Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize, and now Donald Trump just says she's out. I'm still supporting Delcy Rodriguez because Donald Trump wants all of that oil money from Venezuela. Donald Trump wants to be applauded because he claims he's given $100 million in aid and support to Venezuela while looting over $5 billion in oil money from the people of Venezuela. And in any event, that money is going to Di Stato Cabellos And to Delcy Rodriguez, and it's not reaching the people right now. The people are absolutely livid. This is what happens when you get into bed with authoritarians and you start to do joint ventures with the bad guys. But then wait a minute, Donald Trump is one of the worst. No, let me change that. He's the worst authoritarian of them all right now. Let's just go through the facts receipt by receipt right now. You know, on June 24th, uh, of this year, a magnitude 7.2 quake hit north central Venezuela. 39 seconds later, a larger magnitude 7.5 ruptured at almost the same spot. We saw all the buildings get destroyed over there, 58,000 buildings that were likely destroyed.

The death count right now was at about 2,000, over 10,000 injured. Tens of thousands of people remain missing. The body bags that we're seeing there in Venezuela look to be in the tens of thousands. And one story that is now getting more attention, and it certainly deserves this, is that the Trump regime deported about 148 people from the United States right before the earthquake took place on June 24th. And the Trump regime deported these people, took away their temporary protected status, put them in Simón Bolívar Airport, then transferred them to a nearby, uh, hotel. Um, and the earthquake struck. This was Hotel Sanctuary. Like a sanctuary hotel. And then the hotel collapsed. About 140 people who were deported by ICE, um, are likely dead right now. And they're missing as a direct result of the Trump regime's cruel behavior. You know, this past week, the United States Supreme Court ruled that basically there's no such thing as temporary protected status anymore, as long as Donald Trump says, I don't want TPS. So there's actually more people right now who are set to be deported to Venezuela because cruel and unusual behavior by the Trump regime is just compounding the suffering right now.

We'll just go through this step by step. As the New York Times reports as well, US undercuts Venezuela opposition leader as she tries to return. Maria Corina Machado is like, I want to be with my people. She's like, I won the last election, I want to be with my people. Enough, Donald Trump and the Trump regime. You've told me be patient, be patient, we'll do elections in the future. It's clear that the Trump regime is just gonna do whatever Delcy wants, cuz Donald Trump wants that oil money from Delcy Rodriguez and Diosdado Cabello. And so Machado's like, let me try to get there. She tried to go to Curaçao. Trump blocked her there. She doesn't have a passport and Trump is refusing to allow the State Department to give her any of the credentials to get to Venezuela. Obviously Delcy Rodriguez does not want Machado in Venezuela right now. And Donald Trump says, this is a distraction. She just wants to do a publicity stunt. Why does she want to behave like such a celebrity and get all of this attention? The hell even thinks like that? She's the leader of the country. She wants to be with the people.

And right now, Delcy and Diodatos Cabello, their interior minister torturer right there, are further torturing the people right now as, as the death toll continues to mount. Let me just share with you, Katie Fang from the Midas Touch Network has been all over this. She covered what went down at Hotel Santuario where the Trump Trump regime sent 100 right before the earthquake struck. And by the way, even before that, the Trump regime ramped up the deportations of Venezuelans. And by the way, remember all of the, you know, Miami, uh, Latino Republican politicians like, we're going to take care of you, we're going to take care of you. People who were not criminals, people who are here who are working hard. There's probably thousands who have been deported to Venezuela. This group of 100 though, was deported on the day of the earthquake, sent there, and then we— and then the hotel collapsed, likely leading to 140 deaths directly stemming from Trump and ICE's actions. Here's how, uh, Katie Fang described it. Let's play it.

So there was a flight going from Miami to Venezuela and specifically to the Simón Bolívar International Airport., and that flight was a deportation flight that was being run by ICE, and it went again from Miami to Venezuela carrying 146 people, including 19 women and 7 children. That flight landed at 10:22 AM local time last week Wednesday. Those 146 deportees from the United States were taken to La Guaira. That is a city on the coast in northern Venezuela. It's just north of the capital of Caracas. And they were taken specifically to a hotel, the Hotel Santuario, which, listen, for those of you that speak Spanish, it is just tragic, this name of this hotel. The hotel sanctuary, the sanctuary hotel. It was nothing close. Ended up being a death trap, just kind of the denouement, the finality of a death kind of path for these poor deportees. And the process of their deaths was started by the Trump administration.

Then you have this MAGA Republican Congress member from South Florida, Carlos Giménez, and he's one of the people who basically threw his own people to the wolves. He promised, oh, Donald Trump's going to take care of you. He's a MAGA Republican, uh, from South Florida. And CNN asked them, hey, so hours before this earthquake, ICE and Donald Trump and your policies led to 150 Venezuelans being deported. You all promised you would be compassionate and all these things, but you likely are responsible for the deaths of these 150 people. What's your response here?

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I do want to ask you, Congressman, about the situation in Venezuela and specifically this news that, uh, we've received that hours before the earthquake, close to 150 people on a deportation flight from Miami were at the epicenter of the earthquakes and the hotel that they were in collapsed. Many of them remain missing. Their family members say they have not been able to get answers. Do you think that DHS has responsibility to account for those missing?

No, I don't. I think that they were deported legally from the United States. They were deported legally from the United States. The fact you had a tragedy afterwards, you can't pin that on DHS. I mean, that's just, it's just an act of God. And so no, I don't. Now I feel for them and I hope that, that they turn out to be okay, but no, that's not, that's not something that DHS should be accountable for. Accounted for. That's a, that's an act of God. And nobody could have foreseen that an earthquake was going to happen in Venezuela since last October.

And again, we're seeing the video footage come in of Diosdado Cabello Rondón, the interior minister, the enforcer, the torturer for Delcy Rodriguez. He was the torturer for Maduro as well. But this is all part of the same Chavista regime right here. Let me show you the video right here. As, um, as you have Diosdado Cabello preventing aid from getting to the people. And I just want to be very clear, Diodato Cabello had a $25 million bounty on him, um, for being a narco terrorist. You know, Donald Trump talks about narco terrorists. This is Trump's guy right now.

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I don't want to hear, oh, Donald Trump's giving money to— no, he's not. Donald Trump supports Diodato. Donald Trump supports Delcy. Donald Trump is blocking Maria Corina Machado. And by the way, I was kind of disenchanted with how, uh, María Corina Machado was like giving Donald Trump the Peace Prize and had to suck up to him in the past. It's hard for me to put myself in her shoes, uh, obviously very hard, you know, to say like what she thought she was doing by sucking up to Donald Trump, but you certainly did not get him to view you more powerfully. Quite the contrary. It's why the only thing you can do is show strength and call him out because he's a pathetic loser when you call him out. This is Díaz Dato Rabbeo preventing aid from getting through. Play this clip.

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And I'll share this with you as dozens of people who were working on rescue efforts in one of the parishes there confronted a group of soldiers who were at the scene carrying surveillance tasks as frustration grows among residents over the limited assistance they've been receiving from the Delcy regime. Play this clip. You can see right here, the Venezuelan dictatorship blocking people. Like they're not doing the search and rescue. So the people are trying to take it into their own hands. You'll see Delcy, which we should just say the Trump regime, Delcy is a puppet of Trump. So this is the Trump regime police in Venezuela blocking the people. And here it goes. You see what happens when Donald Trump forms this alliance with Delta. This is the result, and this is how it should be being called out on all corporate, on all news right here. Here, play this clip. Now you have MAGA Republican Congresswoman, uh, Maria Salazar from South Florida. You know, and she was like, we need Maria Corina Machado. She's the legitimate leader. Why is Delcy doing this? Why is Diaz-Dado doing this? You are a Trump sycophant, Congresswoman Salazar. Don't you all realize this is all because of you and your sycophantic support of Donald Trump and his regime?

Here, play this clip. More from MAGA Republican Congresswoman Salazar, and she was like, oh, Donald Trump supports the Dignity Act. Remember when she would always say that he will never go after people who are Cubans and Venezuelans and Haitians and Colombians and, uh, and, and all of the— and all people from South America, Latin America who are not criminals. He gave me his word. He supports— he doesn't support the Dignity Act. What are you talking about? He supports Kelsey, the authoritarian in Venezuela. He supports taking the oil money from Venezuela for himself and for his oligarchs while he makes billions of freaking dollars on crypto. Watch what Salazar says.

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This video by Diosdado Cabello, who did not allow for this crew to continue going towards where the victims were because they needed to finish filming a video. That goes to show you where their heart is. This, and that's very troublesome for the White House. Everything is a major disaster, but the big challenge here is to tell Delcy you cannot stop the aid coming from the United States regardless of the source. You know, I was hearing that Bukele, he is directing the operations of his own crew via satellite or via Zoom while Delcy is nowhere to be found. How come the president of El Salvador is more effective than the interim We know where our heart is. We need to figure out and ask Delsi where her intentions and her heart is. Diosdado, Delsi, we got to send a very clear message, and I'm doing it right now in English, that the Delsi interim government cannot stop any aid coming from the United States or the international community. She cannot do that because that's going to be a very big black mark on her page.

And then noticeably, notably, then you have MAGA Republican Congress member Jiménez saying, The people of Venezuela are facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, and the regime is impeding aid from flowing directly into the hands of the Venezuelan people. Dude, you are the regime. We, you think you are the good guy, Carlos Jiménez. You are Trump's guy. Trump works with Delcy and Diodatos. You are the regime. You are the person preventing them from getting the aid. Don't you realize that as Donald Trump prevents Machado from even getting You're the regime. You don't see that, idiot? Here, play this clip.

The US has put more than $300 million and search and rescue teams into this effort. Do you think that aid should be conditioned on democratic reforms, the release of more political prisoners, letting in opposition leader María Corina Machado? Do you think that the Rodríguez interim leadership in Caracas is capable of handling this response?

No, I don't think that they are. And I think they've already demonstrated that they're not capable of handling the response. I am in favor of our humanitarian aid going to Venezuela. And obviously I'm in favor of any effort that speeds up the process of restoring democracy and freedom to the people of Venezuela. As you know, I've called Delcy Rodriguez not the inner interim president. She's the interim dictator. She's part of the old regime. And that regime is really not doing— in other words, they're failing at their job right now. And the United States has to come in and help them out as much as possible. You've got a lot of innocent people that are caught in the rubble. There's a lot of need there, a lot of homeless people. So the United States should be helping the people of Venezuela. Yeah, we should be extracting more from the regime, saying, you want our help, then we need to speed up the process of restoring democracy to Venezuela.

Here's Delcy Rodriguez doing publicity stunts and pulling the rescuers away from doing, you know, the rescuing so she can do Trump-style propaganda events. Play this clip.

Estar en el terreno. Sabe que la situación es muy compleja y realmente estamos en presencia de una catástrofe natural.

Pero quisimos apartarnos un poco de sus tareas, que sabemos que son vitales, para agradecerle And I'll share this with you, as a soldier from the Venezuelan regime was caught by relatives of an earthquake victim at the collapsed towers in La Guaira, drinking liquor while people were desperately trying to search for their loved ones. Here, play this clip. Take a look right here. This is La Guerra Venezuela tonight. It looks like a nuclear warhead was dropped, as Buzz Patterson says here.

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And I'll just share with you this B-roll. As you can see what it looked like when the earthquake hit for yourself. I'll show you other B-roll right here after showing you the B-roll of that earthquake. This is B-roll, shocking images of La Guaira. Hundreds of coffins are being transported by emergency personnel amid the responses to those earthquakes right there. Horrific stuff. But let's be clear, Trump is with Delcy. Trump is with Díaz-Canel. Trump is preventing the aid. When Trump— if you say, oh, well, Ben, the State Department's giving money, they're giving it to Delcy. Trump supports the corrupt regime over there. Don't you get it? Trump is the corrupt regime. Trump saying they're the 51st state. Trump saying all these things. This is, this is what you get with Donald fricking Trump. Blood is on his hands. Blood is on the hands of ICE for the whole, for the, for the whole, look, obviously they can't control the earthquakes. Although I will say, I am wondering, I just asking questions. There's been lots of drilling and lots of seismic activity as a result of renewed oil and renewed drilling. I, I'm not, I'm not suggesting I'm an expert in this area, so I don't want to go down that route.

Um, and obviously, you know, other than the possibilities there, but I don't have the science to back that up, um, to make the link between the excess drilling, the excavations taking place right now by the Trump regime there to suck out all of the resources. So obviously, you know, who controls, you know, the, the actual natural disaster, separate, but the response to it is being completely botched by Delcy and Diodatos. And that's Trump, that's Trump's crew. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thank you for watching this. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our Substack at MidasPlus.com.

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