MTG warns Trump after Venezuela strikes: ‘This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end’ | EUROtoday

Marjorie Taylor Greene has issued a stark warning to Donald Trump following the navy operation in Venezuela, telling him that such abroad interference was “what many in MAGA thought they voted to end.”

“Regime change, funding foreign wars, and American’s tax dollars being consistently funneled to foreign causes, foreigners both home and abroad, and foreign governments while Americans are consistently facing increasing cost of living, housing, healthcare, and learn about scams and fraud of their tax dollars is what has most Americans enraged,” Greene wrote in a prolonged publish on X Saturday.

The president was requested earlier how the seizure and management of Venezuelan oil aligns along with his “America first” agenda, telling reporters, “We want to surround ourselves with good neighbors.”

Trump has mentioned he “authorized” CIA operations within the South American nation, together with the seize of President Nicolas Maduro, as a result of Venezuela “emptied their prisons into the United States of America” and flooded the nation with medicine.

In her publish, Greene hit again on the president’s claims that the operations had been supposed purely to crack down on alleged narco-terrorism, declaring that 70 % of U.S. drug overdose deaths had been resulting from fentanyl that entered the nation by way of Mexico.

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“Mexican cartels are primarily and overwhelmingly responsible for killing Americans with deadly drugs,” she mentioned. “If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels?”

The firebrand Georgia congresswoman additionally pointed to his pardoning of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of trafficking tons of of tons of cocaine into America.

“Americans’ disgust with our own government’s never ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going.

“This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end. Boy were we wrong.”

Greene has gone from being one of many president’s closest supporters to certainly one of his most vocal critics in current months, having fallen out with him and others within the administration over the dealing with of the Epstein information.

The congresswoman introduced in November that she could be resigning from Congress and she or he is because of go away her seat on January 5.

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Greene is reportedly not the one Republican to be important of the president, although others are to date doing so from behind closed doorways, in response to Senate minority chief Chuck Schumer.

“As I said, we have heard from some Republicans in private conversations, chairs talking to their ranking members, that they have some, they are troubled by this, but not much more than that,” Schumer said Saturday.

Schumer said he wanted to hold Republicans accountable, adding: “And once more, we’re saying to the Republicans, that is your duty. President Trump is a member of your occasion.

“You’ve gone together with him time and again. This is one time you bought to withstand him. It’s too severe.”