ICYMI: ROGERS ON THE CAPTURE OF FEDERAL DRUG FUGITIVE NICOLAS MADURO
In case you missed it… Army veteran, businessman, and Trump-endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers hit the radio waves this morning to discuss the capture of federal drug fugitive Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela.
Listen to the interview with Justin Barclay from WOOD Radio here or read below:
“[...]No other country–this is important–in the world has the capability to do what we did in Venezuela to bring the Maduros–plural–to justice.
“[...]He was absolutely involved. A grand jury in the United States indicted him back in 2020… I passionately believe that they were in their right to extradite someone who was indicted in the United States in a place that was not going to cooperate, number one.”
“[...]But number two, you think about the added benefit of this. We have the Chinese--were building these launch capable facilities for Venezuela. They were talking about using it for satellites, but it is an easy replica for a missile there. And to use that to threaten and intimidate the United States. That’s exactly what the Chinese were doing. That’s why they were pouring money into Venezuela and trying to get that to be a launchpad for them.”
“[...]The Russians use Venezuela to refuel and do logistics for their strategic air bombers–and oh, by the way, nuclear submarines as well.”
“[...]So, he had been all in on enriching himself as a narco-terrorist… he was also inviting our adversaries–people forget, China also has nuclear weapons pointed at the United States–to build out their ability to have missile capability that quick.”
“[...]We took out someone who was literally trying to kill hundreds of thousands of our children.”
“[...]We are not going to allow our backyard to be used against the strategic interests of the United States–nor should we, ever. You shouldn’t allow them to have whole countries that are completely enriching the cartels in Mexico through the drug trade. Or being the distribution network by using the instruments of state to do it.”
“[...]Between socialism and communism–killed more people in the world than any other ideology. So, how we are finding ourselves running to this notion that a bigger government more invested in your life is the right decision is beyond me. But I hope people look at what happened in Venezuela in the last 20 years–how it went from the richest country in Latin America, to literally the poorest, and was being used as tools for Russia and China and other bad actors to go after the United States. That’s what happens.”
Mike Rogers is a national security expert who served as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee during the Bin Laden raid. He also previously worked as an FBI street agent, where he built a career busting drug cartels and gangsters to keep deadly drugs out of our communities and criminals off the streets.
Learn more about Mike Rogers and his plan to Get Michigan Working Again at RogersForSenate.com.
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