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The Greanville Post Topic: Bernie and the Dems Flunk Trump’s Test On Venezuela’s Coup

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Sanders: the moral backbone of a wet noodle.  He has repeatdely shown he  is a  willful  ignoramus on foreign policy or —worse—an intellectual coward. (Donkey Hotey) W hen Trump announced his support for the unfolding coup in   hen Trump announced his support for the unfolding coup in Venezuela, Bernie Sanders remained silent for 24 hours.  This matters because coups are made or broken in the first moments or hours; a day during a coup can feel like a month or more. With each hour Bernie’s silence roared louder.  So much was hanging in the balance with Trump at home and abroad, to the point where a finger could tip the scales—  yet Bernie refused to lift his. Among the many  Democratic Party candidates  running for President, only  Tulsi Gabbard  made an unequivocal statement condemning the coup, while leftist darling  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  limited her criticism to a retweet. While U.S. poli...

Ron Paul: Trump’s Venezuela Fiasco

“I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own customs, beliefs, and traditions. The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship. We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return.” - The Golden Don Excerpt: It’s ironic that a president who has spent the first two years in office fighting charges that a foreign country meddled in the US elections would turn around and not only meddle in foreign elections but actually demand the right to name a foreign country’s president! How would we react if the Chinese and Russians decided that President Trump was not upholding the US Constitution and recognized Speaker Nancy Pelosi as US president instead? Even those who would like to see a change of government in Venezuela should reject any notion that the change must be “helped” by the United States. According to press reports, Vice President Mike Pence was so involved in internal Venezuelan affairs that he actually urged Guaido to name himself ...