Even Republicans Are Challenging Trump’s Claim That His Venezuela Campaign Is About Drugs

Even Republicans Are Challenging Trump’s Claim That His Venezuela Campaign Is About Drugs


Greene compared the capture of Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, to the US capturing Saddam Hussein and the war in Iraq, calling it the “same Washington playbook” that only “serves the big corporations, the banks, and the oil executives.” According to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment, Mexico is the primary mass producer and exporter of fentanyl into the US, while China is a leading manufacturer. He also weakly maintained the link between Venezuela and fentanyl—“There is still fentanyl coming from Venezuela (or at least there was)”—and acknowledged Mexico’s role in fentanyl and considered it “a reason why President Trump shut the border on day one.”

Author: Alex Nguyen


Published at: 2026-01-04 23:06:44

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