"Humanitarian action needs to be independent of political, military or any other objectives. The needs of the people should lead in terms of when and how humanitarian assistance is used."
Even the unashamedly right-wing New York Post reported:
"U.S. delivers aid to town bordering Venezuela to undermine President Nicolas Maduro."
If human rights were really the Trump administration's concern, Trump would probably have at least made passing mention of it at a rally in Miami, Fla. last week.
Instead he launched into a rambling screed against Socialism.
About it, Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) said:
"I'm concerned about the Trump administration politicizing this issue, using Venezuelans' suffering to score political points here in Florida. We shouldn't be using this as a political weapon."
Trump has been leaning on the anti-Socialist rhetoric a lot since his State-of-the-Union address, in which he stated:
"We condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair."
This rhetoric sounds eerily similar to that which Reagan used back when he was making a case for invading Granada:
"Nowhere in its whole sordid history have the promises of Communism been redeemed. Everywhere it has exploited and aggravated temporary economic suffering to seize power and then to institutionalize economic deprivation and suppress human rights."
Although he invokes communism, not socialism, the sentiment is the same.
Trump is nervous about Mueller, his luck beginning to run out, and the fact that the Democratic presidential candidates taking him on for the White House are running on popular economic and social policies Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders helped codify in the Democratic party platform.
Moreover, Trump has admitted he wants Venezuela's oil.
In former acting FBI director, Andrew McCabe's, recently released book TheThreat, McCabe reports how Trump expressed in a July 2017 private meeting the desire to go to war with Venezuela because "they have all that oil and they're right on our back door."
A month later, Trump hounded his top advisers about a military option for overthrowing Maduro.
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