President Trump brushed off Democrats who are arguing that he lacked the authority to conduct the strikes in Venezuela that led to the capture of the country’s dictator, Nicolas Maduro.”It was really genius. What they did is genius. The Democrats, you know, they’ll take a shot. All they do is complain. They don’t talk about — they should say, you know what? If we did a great job. We’re stopping drugs from coming into this country. And nobody’s been able to do it until we came along. But they should say great job,” he said on Fox News on Saturday.
“They shouldn’t say, oh, gee, maybe it’s not constitutional, you know, the same old stuff that we’ve been hearing for years and years and years. They did an incredible job, these men and women that went out there last night, the courage they had, going into an area where, you know, all the lights were turned, we turned off almost all of the lights in Caracas,” he added.
Trump said the operation was “so organized” and the U.S. is saving lives.
“And they go into a dark space with machine guns facing them all over the place, and then you hear from a guy that I’d never even heard of. But you hear from some congressmen saying, ‘oh, this is so terrible.’ We’re saving lives. And, by the way, the boats? Every boat — because that’s sort of related to this — every boat that we hit saves 25,000 lives,” he said.
