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We know who's in charge of Venezuela. It is us, Big Oil, who bought and paid for a president. And you don't have to take my word for it. Take the words from an interview of Donald Trump's last Venezuelan special envoy, Elliot Abrams, who's come out against the administration and Marco Rubio and said, look, we see it. This is about Big Oil and the Venezuelan plutocrats going to Mar a Lago and, and trying to get not a replacement regime, that is democracy, installed in Venezuela, but just a compliant regime with, with a decapitated Maduro off, but everybody else in his apparatus present, but have them be compliant and bend the knee, not to the Trump administration, to Big Oil. And this is Marco Rubio's wet dream. He's been trying to take over as Secretary of State, places like his ancestral homeland, Cuba. There's a direct link between Marco Rubio, Cuba, Venezuela and Russia that I'm going to talk about. But what people who are independent minded, who are critics of the Trump administration are saying is the following equation. Good on getting Maduro out, bad on leaving the regime apparatus in from top to bottom. And it's not just Delsey Rodriguez, it's her brother who runs the national legislature. It's Diazdado Cabello who's the interior minister, that is likely Maduro's number two. It's Vladimir Padrino Lopez who's the head of the military. And it's the Cuban government all supporting Venezuela as they always have. There's a reason that more than 40 Cubans died in the kidnapping of Maduro because Maduro pays Cuba in oil for mercenaries from Cuba to guard him. Cuba is a, is a puppet state of Russia, as is Venezuela. So we just picked a fight with a puppet state of Venezuela, of Russia, basically threatening them to say we're in charge of the Western Hemisphere and by extension, by implication, ceding the Europe eastern and western to Russia and places like Ukraine and China. Whatever it wants to do, just stay out of the Western Hemisphere. That appears to be the Dun row doctrine that's been espoused by Donald Trump. Look, folks, this is what happens when you get a mentally declining president who every day is worse than the day before, mentally, who's taken three dementia tests by his own admission in the last 11 months. This is what happens when you have no plan on other than what's good for Big Oil. I'm Michael Popak. You're on the Midas Touch Network. Let's get to the reporting here and support legal AF both at home and abroad. Let's Start with Elliot Abrams, the last special envoy for the Trump administration to Venezuela in the first term. He went on cnn, he wrote an op ed piece taking on the administration. Here's a clip from his CNN interview in which he says, where is the push for democracy? Where is the plan to reinstall the government in exile? Who are Democrats, who are, who are Democratic? Where is that plan? And have we just bent the need of big oil? Play the clip.
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