Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar made an appearance on Kudlow’s show on Fox Business Network this Monday, and was literally salivating over the prospect of American companies going in there and taking their oil while cheer leading for the Trump administration to invade Venezuela.
Here’s the exchange between Salazar and guest host David Asman, where Salazar says the quiet part out loud on the real reason the Trump administration seems to be dead set on overthrowing their government:
SALAZAR: Venezuela, for those Americans who do not understand why we need to go in, for three– basically, for three reasons.
You’re on Fox Business. Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because there will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity. American companies can go in and fix all the oil pipe, the whole oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies or everything that has to do with oil and the derivatives.
Number two, Venezuela has been the launching pad, the hub for our enemies. The Iranian, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Cubans, the Nicaraguans, people that hate the United States and the only thing they want to do is do harm to us and to our young Americans.
And number three, they are, he is the head of the Suns Cartel, which is one of the transnational criminal organizations. In 2020, Nicolás Maduro was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking, and he is the head of the Suns cartel.
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