Our brave military personnel who executed this successful operation with speed and precision and power deserve our gratitude and our congratulations. You should sleep a little better at night knowing that we have this great force. The Maduro regime functioned as a criminal organization masquerading as a government. This was not a legitimate president of a country. It systematically used the instruments of the Venezuela state, which is its military, its intelligence services and its territory to facilitate trafficking drugs into the United States. (01:27–01:33)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Maduro regime operated as a criminal organization.
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