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Derrick Van Orden: “Maduro is a dictator, and that's how a dictator stays in…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Published | Video Starts at 40:35

Right. And us sending. Goes in there. Well, I think you start sending Americans home. I mean, if we did that, I think. But that's not so. So Maduro is a dictator, and that's how a dictator stays in power. You must identify an external or an internal threat to you and your people. In this case, it's the United States of America. That is what is keeping him in power. Them him being able to juxtapose his regime against the United States. So do we take him out? (40:35–40:46)

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Asserts that Maduro maintains power by portraying the United States as a threat.

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