Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached critical condition following a daring U.S. military raid that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro over the weekend. Many of the same liberals who once criticized President Donald Trump for supposedly allowing Maduro to remain in power are now outraged that Trump has taken decisive action to end his rule.
By any objective metric, the raid was a stunning success and yet another massive feather in Trump’s foreign policy cap. In a lightning strike that lasted less than three hours, American forces captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and brought them to face justice in the United States. In March 2020, during Trump’s first term, the Department of Justice filed criminal charges against Maduro for narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and related offenses.
In the wake of the raid, tens of millions of Venezuelan citizens and freedom-loving people around the world took to the streets to celebrate the downfall of one of the world’s most brutal authoritarian leaders. “This feels like a breath of fresh air,” one Venezuelan who lives in Florida told CBS News. “It’s not an act of war. It’s an act of freedom,” another said. Videos coming out of Venezuela show tens of thousands of people waving flags and cheering in the streets.
Democrats, however, were decidedly less enthusiastic about Maduro’s capture, accusing Trump of violating the Constitution and initiating an “act of war” against Venezuela. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the raid “reckless,” while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) alleged that the Trump administration showed “no evidence” that Maduro posed an “imminent threat.”
Newly inaugurated Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani reportedly called Trump personally to criticize the raid, accusing the President of violating international law. Mamdani’s comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America demanded that Trump release Maduro immediately.
In fact, it appears as if Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans have joined Maduro’s inner circle and other corrupt regimes in places like Iran, Russia, and North Korea as the only people who are upset that the now-former dictator is sitting in a jail cell instead of the presidential palace in Caracas.
But it was Democrats themselves who first insisted that the United States do more to bring about Maduro’s downfall – and even disparaged Trump for not taking exactly the sort of action that they now claim is reckless and unconstitutional.
Take, for instance, the criticism from former Vice President Kamala Harris, who posted on X that Trump’s actions were “unlawful and unwise” and accused him of launching a “war for regime change.” But as users on social media were quick to point out, the Biden-Harris administration offered a $25 million reward for information that would have led to Maduro’s arrest. (Too bad Trump can’t retroactively collect it.)
Adding to the hypocrisy, back in 2020, Schumer, who is now blasting Trump for bringing an end to the Maduro regime, explicitly criticized Trump for not bringing an end to the Maduro regime.
A year before that, in 2019, Connecticut Democrat Senator Chris Murphy had this to say about Venezuela: “If Trump cared about consistency, he would make the realist case for intervention in Venezuela (getting rid of Maduro is good for the United States).” But following this weekend’s events – now that Trump has taken Murphy’s advice and done something that Murphy himself said would be good for the country – Murphy posted that “the illegality of Trump’s insane war in Venezuela is out of control.”
Murphy further called the strike “a warmongering distraction.” But it was far more than a “distraction” for the 30 million people who live in Venezuela and the countless Americans who have had their lives destroyed by the illicit drug trade that Maduro propped up. It was also a devastating blow to China, Russia, Iran, and every other U.S. adversary that had used Venezuela as an outpost in America’s backyard.
It’s also worth noting that the same Democrats who are now accusing Trump of violating the Constitution and committing an “act of war” against Venezuela had nothing but praise to offer when former President Barack Obama took even more serious actions without congressional approval.
In 2011, Obama authorized an enormous air offensive to intervene in the Libyan Civil War, an action that eventually led to the overthrow and death of Muammar Gaddafi. Obama also authorized a strike that killed Osama bin Laden inside the sovereign nation of Pakistan without congressional approval – a success which even his Republican opponents in Congress almost universally commended him for.
Now, however, when the military swoops in and captures a foreign dictator alive and returns him to the United States to face justice in a court of law, Democrats are losing their minds. Few reactions in recent memory have so perfectly captured how hypocritical, out of touch, and downright unhinged Democrats seem to the American people.
Shane Harris is the Editor in Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Contrary to Hakeem Jeffries comment that there was “no evidence “ that Maduro was an “imminent threat” is the fact that 100,000 Americans die each year from the drugs trafficked from his country of Venezuela. Jeffries lies with such ease it is stunning.
As usual, the Democrats can’t make their minds up except they are pi$$ed (excuse the French) because they did not execute the plan while they held power. Wait, they were too busy making the military a pansy organization rather than being decisive for rest of the world. It again comes down to what the voter will believe — decisive action for the good or sit back and take a beating. President Trump == ACTION!!!
Democrats are a disgrace to the USA.
Democrats are now communists. They hate one of their own being removed from power. Schumer, Sanders, Murphy, Kelly, et al, have been waging war on the U. S. for years from inside the government. Hence over 70 million dead Americans on their watch, the destruction of the dollar and corruption like we’re a third world country.
Are dems now saying dictators should remain in power and have their right to rule? Tell that to the oppressed citizens of Venezuela who are dancing in the streets. A rebirth of a free Venezuela, but democrats are waving the Constitution in protest as if they’re the moral high ground who are magnanimously defending the rights of a deposed tyrannical dictator. The world should take note.
Once again President Trump uses their TDS to make the sound like the idiots they are.
“Democrats Disgrace Themselves Following Trump’s Daring Venezuela Raid”
No matter. Democrats are incapable of shame or embarrassment or they wouldn’t be Democrats.
As Pres Trump said in his state of the union speech last year, if he found the cure for cancer they would condone it. Some of these idiots would probably not even take it in order to save their lives, only because of their deranged TDS.
Let’s go back to the origin of the “Trump hate”. This began decades ago, it’s all about the $ that these swamp dwellers have been pocketing, cloked in the give aways that award them a commission. Trump discovered their schemes and is working on uncovering and stopping the losses of tax dollars. The government has no money of their own IT’S ALL TAX DOLLARS– OUR TAX DOLLARS! Thank God Pres. Trump is at the helm to save our Republic! Dems and those who follow them are traitors and infidels.
What else is new, the Dems are a disgrace to our country, their devotion to Marxism/Socialism will continue to aid in their downfall.
Is anyone surprised? This is the party that gave billions of dollars cash do I ran in the middle of the night and turn the oil back on when Iran was up against the wall with their economy. I ran used that money and the sale of the oil to finance terrorism and to kill American soldiers, and the Democrats supported it. How can anybody vote Democrat I just do not understand it. They are truly the party of the devil. More people have been killed by the narcotics coming out of Venezuela that world war I world war II the Korean war combined. And the Democrats support that. But then again they don’t even know what a woman is, how could they possibly know the difference between right and wrong
DIMMs can get whiplash by their sudden changes of direction. They support all criminals–foreign and domestic–and oppose all law enforcement officers and military members! Now at least Tampon Timmy has gone kaput. Nancy “Lucky Trader” Pelosi loved all the SA dictators and wouldn’t give the time of day to those allowing freedom.
DEMOCRAT PARTY AND RINO PLATFORM:
If President Trump is all in for something, they’re all in against it.
In a nutshell, that’s essentially all there is to it.
Their reasoning for why they take this course doesn’t even have to make much sense or really matter whatsoever. Just as long as collectively, it is all seen as party cohesion and unity against one man and his supporters.
It’s difficult to even gauge the metric of the left’s absolute unhinged hypocracy and insanity. But leave it to leftist “Americans” to protest the removal of a commie dictator while the people of Venezuela rejoice Maduro’s removal. Aren’t the Venezuelan people the most qualified to judge this decision? I wonder which sociologists from “intelligentsia” and global imperialist hedge fund managing investment banker “philanthropist” scum (Brit banking, perhaps?) are behind this chapter of TDS. All that the left has to do anymore to disgrace themselves is exist. They’re truly desperate.
Did anyone ever stop and wonder why the Democrats are so P.O. about President Trump taking out that Slime-Ball drug pusher, from Venezuela, I have a thought, maybe they are getting kickbacks and are laundering money for the Drug Cartels, it has to be more than their hatred President Trump.
You can’t make this stuff up, the Demonrats hate America!
God Bless America!
Who cares what the Commie core, that falsely use the Name of Democrat’s, think, they are nuts and TRAITOR’S TO THE CAUSE, all true Dem’s know it. As far as Mamdami is concerned, he is the true IDIOT LEADER, of the FAKE DEM’S.
I feel sorry for all those democrat voters out there that have no sane leadership, no plan and no direction. Then I think about them consistently voting for such LOSERS. they are just flushing their votes and tax dollars down the old stool. I feel fortunate that I voted for a man of action that calls his shots and makes them count. All the dem “leadership” can do is rail against their own nation and even waste our national treasure on childish useless civil cases that hobble our own government and have no positive effect.
If Trump found the cure for cancer the democrats would complain about the poor Dr.s he was putting out of business.
The liberals only use the Constitution when they believe it will fit their narrative or agenda but even then they still don’t understand/misinterpret it or twist it into their liberal “pretzel logic”. Liberals are as useless as a screen door on a submarine!
Well, the Democrats finally DEFINED THEMSELVES as hypocrites, fraud and liars with their take on Maduro’s capture. They forgot what their past narrative about Maduro was, and now saying just the opposite of their stand before, because Pres. Trump did exactly what their party couldn’t do. Shame, shame on this people. They don’t deserve being in our government after this. They must be sick, or just lost their minds?
Just some (of many) Synonyms and new definitions for Democrats (and RINOs) and what stand for:
1. Enemies Within
2. Masters of Hypocrisy
3. Mentally unstable
4. America-LAST
5. Defenders of Illegals
6. Habitual liars
7. Criminal supporters
8. Corrupt to the core
9. Allies to America’s Foreign Enemies
10. Racists, Biased, and CONSUMED WITH HATE
11. Democrats, Socialists, and Communists are ONE IN THE SAME
* Note: I noticed one slight oversight in the article when the writer said “Democrats are losing their minds…”
Democrats have NO MINDS to lose.
They are simply America’s Enemies Within, Warriors of Satan, and are pure evil at it’s worst.
Democrats disgrace themselves everyday since Trumps first term
The liberal far left democrats once again proved that their loyalty stands with the Liberal, Communist, Socialist Dictators and Islamic Muslim Regimes of the world by attacking President Trump for doing something that should have been done decades ago. The United Nations is also once again proving their criminal corruption defending Maduro and demanding President Trump release and Criminal Dictator who suppressed his people and made billions trafficking drugs.
The radical liberals are so far gone that they don’t even know what “disgrace” means. They have no idea how ignorant they look nor how many people are totally disgusted with their actions. They are on the WRONG side or everything that this country stands for because they hate it, the president and the real citizens who just wish they would fall into a large hole and disappear. We are now a nation of two completely opposite sides…those who love this country and want to preserve it and those who hate and want to destroy it. Evil against Good.
Democrats trying to act like a Communist regime.
EVILCountrie$ that ingratiate$ n utilizes, protects DrugCartel criminality 2poison, hook n destroy our children Should incur full wrath of US military justice. It’s a new wickedWar. Finally a POTUS that won’t tolerate such heinous acts! Mat 18:7 SINister demoncRAT$ HATE Justice!
Democrats are crazy ,They all know President Trump did the right thing ,some are just pissed off because of the kick backs will be stopped . They are hipocrits,
Trump shouldn’t have even taken the mayor’s call. The switchboard should have taken a message and told him his call would be returned next week in the order it was received. He’s not even a pimple on Trump’s backside! The mayor needs to learn his place!
Sure is funny how people have forgotten some of our Democratic presidents performed a questionable act of war against criminals of foreign countries. Just saying.
Too bad the MSM won’t resurrect those old quotes from politicians that would expose their hypocrisy.
As the commonsense, red-necked, un-coothed, lowly educated, non progressive, subordinates of society, must bear the burden of the insane, treacherous, morons we allow to be created these past decades. Consider, if we had allowed our children to only educated to read, write, do math, civics, world history, and study the Scriptures of the Bible, and a multitude of skill based, hands on vocational schools nothing else. All Universities, fake institutions of “higher learning” were eliminated at that time, can it be imagined what a country we would have today? If so, I believe most of the sub-human intellectuals that are present and destroying any and all logic and reasoning we now face, would have been only a topic of discussion what to avoid.
Democrat representatives and policy makers are tied to the drug trade either directly or indirectly. They are a cancer on America.
Of course the progressive/socialists [formerly Democrats] are up in arms. One can only imagine how the street drugs they thrive on are going to see price escalations as a result of this action. Besides, even though they live here, most can certainly not be called Americans. They hate everything this nation has ever stood for. I’m waiting to see if Mamdani and his komrads attempt to storm the facility in Brooklyn and set him free.
Is anyone really surprised the
democrats are upset? They caused all the “messes” that President
Trump and his cabinet have had to work to clean up but they accuse him of ruining Democracy? Review the past four years again you ” perfect” Democrats.
Here is a question for the Democrats and socialists: The socialist policies that have devastated Venezuela were initiated by Maduro’s immediate predecessor, Hugo Chavez. Those policies — which Maduro continued — resulted in the average Venezuelan not being able to find basic necessities and losing 20 pounds in body weight. When He died in 2013, though, Chavez himself had a reported estimated net worth of $2 BILLION! His daughter is said to be worth $4 billion, and the Chavez family reportedly owns 17 estates with a combined total of around 100,000 acres. Where is the socialist outrage at the Chavez family? Why is no one talking about these facts?
I caught part of the local news last night. They were interviewing some people from Venezuela, all were happy about this. Then they interviewed one of the protesters and when asked, what about the Venezuelans that are celebrating? The woman said she didn’t believe that they exist. And they think we drink the kool-aid.
Just goes to show you that the Demoncrats will never be happy. If they don’t like it here, they are free to leave and join Rosie and Ellen somewhere overseas. And I will help them pack.
Democrats. If it weren’t for double standards, they would have no standards at all…
The DEMONcrap (socialist/communist) Party is an EVIL, corrupt, criminal organization totally dedicated to detroying USA culture, cutoms, and law in order to bring in Marxim and Bolshevim to keep the promoters in power forever, until it all collapses under its own idiocy.
Are we really surprised at this behavior? Of course not. Most of us remember all of this. Hopefully enough of us to make this nation go all RED in midterms.
Whatever the topic or subject concerning an act undertaken by Pres. Trump, the D.C. Democrats are unsupportive. In this case concerning Venezuela. Admittedly although conservative Republican, I don’t always agree with his actions. However, when it comes to the national Democrat Party, I generally think the opposite of whatever is stated in the slanted media by them concerning Pres. Trump. Why don’t they wise up. Surprisingly, it looks like Tim Walz and the Minnesota D.F.L. party might be doing so at least for now concerning the Somali scandal.
Just based on the reactions, it appears that ONLY IF THEY , THE DEMOCRATS DO THE ACTIONS, and get the credit, then it is okay
If just the democrats had eliminated Maduro. Only communists didn’t want that. Maduro is now their friend. Make up your minds democrats. Is he out or is he in. For now he is in with you democrats and people in Venezuela are happy he is out. And that is the most important result of this raid. Mamdani should keep his mouth shut he’s is not the boss of the president. He is not even legally elected as mayor of New York City. He should be send back to country of origin. Foreigners running our big cities is disgusting.
IF the Dems knew about the raid, Maduro woulda been gone. We know how well Dem keep secrets. Read the book DEMOCRATS HATE AMERICA by Mark Levine. In my view every word of it is true.
This is but one part of Trump’s strategy. Trump is playing high level chess while the democrats sit on the sidelines and whine.
The Dems and the liberal media lie so much and so often, that they can’t even keep their own stories straight!
Very well done. Thank you, Shane Harris, for a well written and informative article!
No matter what President Trump does, the Democrats will complain. They told him to take our Maduro, he did it, and now they rant that what he did was wrong. They even want that horrible dictator let loose on the world again. I hope the American People learn of the Iranian drone program that Maduro was conducting in Venezuela. Maybe then, they will get rid of the Democrat Party.
I can see “America First” is alive and well.
there doesn’t seem to be any trolls here today,I wonder if they’re sleeping in.it’s not like they don’t have anything to bitch about today,after all the gas prices are down to pre biden days & venezuela has been liberated.the only bad thing going on is the democrats are still here trying to find problems that don’t exist.