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President Maduro Fires Back at Trump Attacks on Socialism

HeadlineFeb 19, 2019

Venezuelan President Maduro responded to Trump’s remarks in a televised address.

President Nicolás Maduro: “Today Donald Trump was in Miami with a tired rhetoric, questioning the right of our country to adopt the ideas of human, Christian socialism, our socialism, just like a Nazi-style speech to prohibit ideologies.”

This comes as a new book out today by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reveals Trump privately discussed going to war with Venezuela in 2017. McCabe writes, “Then the president talked about Venezuela. That’s the country we should be going to war with, he said. They have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”

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