But these are stone cold murderers. But every time we knock out a boat, we save 25,000 American lives. So would you consider doing something similar with Mexico and Colombia that are even more responsible for fentanyl trafficking to the US? Sure I would. [00:00:16] Well, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its one sided war and seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Great. Even though it was a sanctioned tanker, Bloomberg is reporting that our government is being dishonest. They're lying and telling us otherwise. [00:00:33] The US conducted a judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel that was last docked in Venezuela, according to a senior Trump administration official. Oil prices have already gone up as a result. Isn't that great? International oil prices moved higher on news of the seizure, [00:00:51] with Brant Crude Brant crude climbing as much as 0.8% in London trading. Now why would that happen? Well, because we're living in a global oil market, of course, where less global supply means prices are obviously going to go up, [00:01:09] and the Trump administration's actions will make it harder for Venezuela to export its oil, especially since other oil shippers will now be more reluctant to load its cargo. According to Bloomberg. Now, Jorge Leon, head of geopolitical analysts analysis at Rystad Energy, [00:01:28] told Bloomberg that, quote, the US seizing a Venezuelan tanker is a clear escalation from financial sanctions to physical interdiction. It raises the stakes for Caracas and anyone facilitating its exports. This kind of action adds a geopolitical floor to prices. [00:01:47] Even modest volumes can move sentiment when the risk is about sea lanes and state to state escalation. And keep in mind, this is all happening when we're already in an inflationary economic environment. So inflation is up again at 3% at a time, by the way, when unemployment is also [00:02:06] rising, which means that we are dealing with possible stagflation already. But nonetheless, the serious escalation comes on the heels of the United States military flying two fighter jets into the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday. [00:02:21] So this is the closest that the US military has gotten to the coast. And we're literally talking about a body of water that's surrounded by Venezuelan territory on three sides. But the military dishonestly told the Associated Press that it was just a routine training flight. [00:02:38] In addition to the escalatory measures, President Trump continues to say that he is not willing to rule out a ground invasion in what is obviously a regime change war his administration is currently plotting. As we all know, Trump wants us to all believe that the war on Venezuela [00:02:56] is about protecting Americans from narco traffickers, which is an amazing lie because during a recent interview with Politico, well, Trump was asked why he decided to pardon the former Honduran president who trafficked tons of cocaine into the United States. [00:03:12] Take a look. You pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and let him out of prison, even though he was convicted in a massive international drug trafficking scheme. How is that zero tolerance on drug trafficking? Well, I don't know him, and I know very little about him [00:03:28] other than people said it was like a Obama Biden type setup where he was set up. He was the president of the country. The country deals in drugs. Like probably you could say that about every country. And because he was the president, they gave him like 45 years in prison. [00:03:43] And there are many people fighting for Honduras, very good people that I know. And they think he was treated horribly. And they asked me to do it, and I said, I'll do it. You can say that about every. So every country is engaging in drug trafficking. But Venezuela is the one country that Trump has decided to target [00:03:59] because they're the narco terrorists. And look, if we're to take what Trump is saying at face value, that means that people in his administration basically manipulate him by saying that an actual narcotrafficker was treated unfairly [00:04:14] by Trump's political opponents. And he makes pardoning decisions without even bothering to probe into the very people he's looking to pardon. Like, isn't that insane? But also, what the hell could possibly be more unfair than slaughtering fishing [00:04:33] boats full of people simply based on a suspicion that they're narco traffickers? Hernandez was sentenced to 45 years in prison for good reason. And for all the people who have bought into the ridiculous fearmongering about how Venezuela's role in the cocaine drug trade [00:04:49] is worth slaughtering innocent people. Keep this in mind. Prosecutors maintain that Hernandez's government set up Honduras to serve as a pivotal waypoint, or superhighway, of cocaine coming from South American nations, including Colombia and Venezuela. [00:05:05] And, by the way, just pause for a second when I say fishing boats full of innocent people. I actually believe in what our judicial system maintains that people are innocent until proven guilty. Those fishing boats were full of people who never had a minute, who never [00:05:21] had an opportunity to make a case. There was no due process. There was no evidence presented whatsoever. Some of the survivors of those Venezuelan fishing boat strikes were allowed to just go back to their country with no problem. If there's such dangerous narco terrorists, why would the Trump [00:05:39] administration just willy nilly let them go back to their own countries? Now, Hernandez also accepted $1 million from former Mexican cartel kingpin El Chapo in 2013 while successfully running for his first Honduran presidential term. [00:05:54] It turns out he was using money from the drug trade to accumulate power, political power for himself. Now he was found guilty following a three week trial, meaning there was due process in that case. But according to Trump, he was treated unfairly by Joe Biden. [00:06:11] Right. Here's more from Trump. Do you think that could send the wrong message to drug dealers? Look, I think, you know, when you weaponize government, they've weaponized their government just like they did over here. I'm one of the people that survived, but they weaponized the government. [00:06:27] We had the most weaponized government. Our election was rigged. They went after me. I was impeached twice, I was indicted, they indicted me. I came out good. Here we are in the white House. Things are looking nice. It is a problem when the country is led by an incurious bozo who's easily [00:06:47] manipulated by people who exploit his unending grievances to get what they want. And that's if we take Trump's reasoning for pardoning. Juan Orlando Hernandez at face value. But there likely are other reasons for why Trump made that decision. [00:07:05] Now, Trump has issued more than 2000 pardons since taking office for his second term. That is ten times the number of people he pardoned in the entirety of his first term. And it looks like maybe corruption has a lot to do with it. [00:07:22] In fact, a former nursing home executive who was set to report to prison for tax crimes found himself off the hook after his mother attended a $1 million fundraiser for Trump that promised face to face access with the president. You know what it's always been about? 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Because when it came to Hunter Biden, I thought his tax crimes were worthy of, like, life in prison. Anyway, let's get back to the guy that Trump pardoned, though the curiously timed pardon spared Paul Walzak from having to pay [00:08:53] nearly $4.4 million in restitution and from reporting to prison for an 18 month sentence that had been handed down just 12 days earlier. But there are other examples I can give you. Like the CEO of the failed EV truck company Nikola, [00:09:09] a Utah billionaire named Trevor Milton, who received a full pardon after being convicted for defrauding investors. It was surely just a coincidence that Trevor Milton and his wife gave almost $1 million each to a Trump backing superPAC less [00:09:25] than a month before the 2024 election. I think there would be a little more respect toward our institutions and our government if we were led by people who stopped lying to us, who stopped being as dishonest as the Trump administration is being [00:09:43] in regard to their reasonings and their motives for why they are edging closer and closer to a hot war with Venezuela. You can have issues with how Venezuela is governed. I certainly do. You can dislike the Venezuelan regime, which I certainly have issues with, [00:10:03] but the idea that our soldiers should engage in a costly war with Venezuela because our national security is threatened by their narco terrorists is laughable. It's just not true. And the reason why you just heard, you know, Dasha from Politico, [00:10:22] ask Donald Trump. Well, you know, the fentanyl is coming from China and Mexico. Are you considering taking any action against that? Is because that's where the real issue is rooted in. Right. Like that's that's that's where the fentanyl is coming from. [00:10:38] It's coming from China. It's smuggled through from Mexico. And the fentanyl is what is leading to the massive number of overdose deaths in this country. Now, I don't want war with Mexico either. But my point here is to say that he is trying to drag the United States [00:10:55] into a war under a false premise. And we've been here. We've done that before. And let's just be a little bit smarter. Let's actually push back for once. Instead of beating the war drums, because our precious government decided to lie to us again about their motivations. [00:11:11] I think this is really about oil. And I think that it's for ideological purposes as well. Trump wants regime change in Venezuela. Marco Rubio certainly wants regime change in Venezuela. And more importantly, a powerful group [00:11:26] of voters in South Florida who people like Marco Rubio certainly want to appeal to, possibly for a future presidential run, have a lot more sway than they should have. I'm sorry to all the Cubans and Venezuelans in South Florida. My husband's Cuban, my in-laws are Cuban, and I love them to death. [00:11:45] Okay, Americans shouldn't have to pay for or risk their lives for your pet project. You got issues with a foreign country. That's on you. You're an American. Either you start seeing yourself as an American who prioritizes this country, [00:12:00] or maybe consider a different country. And I'm being serious about that. We are $38 trillion in debt. The idea that we're going to start a new war with freaking Venezuela under false pretenses, because there's a community of people in South Florida who [00:12:16] really don't like him in Cuba is insane. But here we are. That's what we're dealing with. By the way, does that mean that I'm anti-cuban now because I don't want to go to war with Venezuela, and I'm being critical about our government's actions toward Venezuela? [00:12:33] No. And maybe the Israelis should keep that in mind. 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