Trump Doctrine Rebuilds Fortress America
... President Trump reportedly warned the Venezuelan dictator weeks ago that if he refused to peacefully relinquish power and go into exile, the American military would reach down and collect him like an arm coming from the sky. As Vice President Vance dryly observed, "Maduro is the newest person to find out that President Trump means what he says."
Hopefully this decapitation strike upon Venezuela's illegitimate government serves as a warning to all communists and narcoterrorists in positions of power along latitudinal lines below America’s southern border: Your days of endangering the Western Hemisphere are numbered...
For twenty-five years, the communist regime in Venezuela has been a constant source of chaos in the Western Hemisphere. After stealing American infrastructure built as an investment in the country, first Chávez and then Maduro turned Venezuela into a South American hub for exporting drugs, murder, slavery, terrorism, and organized crime into the United States...
However else one thinks of the president, he is a multitasker extraordinaire, and most of those who served before him were pikers by comparison.
To secure the Western Hemisphere, we didn't need a new Monroe Doctrine. We just needed a new president.
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Law Professor Jonathan Turley: Trump Did Not Need Congressional Approval to Capture Maduro (Video), by Mike LaChance, Gateway Pundit, 3 January 2026. Legal precedence is on Trump's side.
Nine Reasons Why Trump's Venezuela Operation Is Great for America, by J. Michael Waller, American Greatness, 4 January 2026:
... 1. It took out the head of a major international organized crime cartel. The cartel, which the US has labeled the "Cartel de los Soles," or Cartel of the Suns, is responsible for cocaine trafficking into the United States. Maduro had turned the upper levels of the Venezuelan government, military, and security services into a huge organized crime entity. The Department of Justice is prosecuting Maduro and others for running what a federal grand jury indictment calls "a corrupt and violent narco-terrorism conspiracy."...
2. It took out the leader who flooded the United States with hardened criminals, organized terrorist gangs like Tren de Aragua, and millions of refugees. Once a new leadership is established in Venezuela, the country can take back its criminals and terrorists, and its refugees can return home and rebuild.
3. It took out the leader of an international terrorist organization. Maduro's Cartel of the Suns is a federally designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO, which the State Department said is “responsible for terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere.”
4. It took out the sponsor of Hezbollah and other jihadists on our southern maritime border...
5. It took out the sponsor of Iranian surveillance and kamikaze drones on our southern maritime border...
6. It deprived Communist China of plans to deploy its navy around Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and the Panama Canal...
8. It restored and modernized our 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine...
9. The operation was not a war...
Secretary of War, @PeteHegseth, just gave the single greatest address of his ENTIRE career.
“This is America first. This is peace through strength.”
In two and a half minutes, Hegseth laid out exactly what this operation to take out Maduro means to America.
HEGSETH:… pic.twitter.com/0TIgCdo3ER
— Overton (@overton_news) January 3, 2026
Marco Rubio says Maduro's capture 'not a war against Venezuela': Full interview, 4 January 2026:
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: 92-Year-Old Clinton Judge Who Denied Trump’s Hush-Money Removal to Federal Court and Blocked Venezuelan Gang Deportations Now Assigned to Preside Over Maduro Case in New York, Gateway Pundit, 4 January 2026.
