Franklin Camargo, a PragerU commentator, criticized Democratic lawmakers during a House hearing concerning the U.S.'s actions to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Democrats, including Jamie Raskin and Jasmine Crockett, opposed the operation, with Crockett accusing Trump of violating Venezuelan sovereignty. Camargo, who has personal experience with the Maduro regime's actions, defended the capture, framing Maduro as a narcoterrorist responsible for crimes.
Venezuela n-born PragerU commentator Franklin Camargo shot back at Democrats during a Wednesday hearing on the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro , calling him an “evil narcoterrorist who committed crimes against Americans.
”House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jamie Raskin and Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member Jasmine Crockett were loud with their opposition to the Trump administration’s January arrest of Maduro and his wife in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. “We could be investigating real drug traffickers and prosecuting more drug cases, but Secretary of War Hegseth needs his clicks, and so we continue bumbling down this reckless, inexplicable and counterproductive path,” Raskin said of the military operation that successfully took the Venezuelan dictator into custody.In Crockett’s opening remarks, she accused President Donald Trump of “invad a sovereign nation and kidnappits leader.” “Now I don’t want y’all to get it twisted and believe for any reason that I think Maduro is a saint, but there are processes,” the Texas Democrat continued, adding that “Donald Trump does not care about the Venezuelan people.” Downplaying the Maduro regime’s responsibility for grave human rights violations, Crockett went on to say that it is clear that the disgraced dictator “is a wrong guy, and he may have even been illegally in power, but the idea that you would meet illegality with further illegality does not necessarily make a right.” In his opening statement, Camargo shared how his family’s life back in Venezuela helped shape his opinion on the U.S.’s actions to capture the leader after charging him in 2020 with narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, weapons offenses, and more. “Thank you for your invitation to share my experience and offer my thoughts on recent American action against Venezuelan criminals. One of those criminals once accused me of being a terrorist, but today, the real terrorist, Nicolas Maduro, is behind bars,” the PragerU personality said. “I was born in Venezuela and soon experienced the failures of socialism. When I spoke out, I was accused of terrorism under a so-called law against hatred. I could have been thrown in jail for as many as 20 years,” he continued. “I escaped, but my family wasn’t so lucky.” According to Camargo, one of his cousins was tortured and imprisoned by the Maduro regime for more than two years for his political activism. Referencing President Ronald Reagan’s characterization of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” he argued that it is important to use that language to refer to the Venezuelan dictatorship today. “Maduro was not simply a bad person or a wrong leader,” Camargo said, appearing to respond to Crockett’s argument. “He’s an evil narcoterrorist who committed crimes against Americans.” “There are some here today who can testify to the legality of operation, absolute resolve. I want to testify to its necessity,” he added. When the other members of the subcommittee began speaking, Camargo faced a hostile line of questioning from Rep. Hank Johnson . “Tell me Mr. Camargo, upon what facts do you conclude that President Maduro was a drug dealer?” he asked.Johnson cut him off, saying, “An indictment is not proof, it’s just an allegation.”“What other facts do you have?” Johnson asked. When Camargo cited reports from the Drug Enforcement Administration on the Cártel de los Soles operating under the Maduro regime, he was again interrupted by the Georgia Democrat.The PragerU commentator began to reply, saying, “So it’s a totalitarian regime where he controls every single thing in the country—” Johnson butted in, saying, “What you’re doing is you’re coming in here spouting off conclusions, conclusions that you’ve heard, which built a nice little narrative—”Johnson refused to answer, instead saying, “I’m going to move on” and switching his focus to other witnesses. Later in the hearing while he was questioning another witness, Johnson briefly turned to Camargo and said it is “ironic” that he would be at the hearing to “protest what happened in that country when the same thing is happening in this country.”Report: FBI Investigating Joe Kent Over Alleged Leak of Classified InfoTrump Attends Dignified Transfer of 6 Servicemembers Killed in Iraq CrashReport: FBI Investigating Joe Kent Over Alleged Leak of Classified InformationDemocrats Turn Markwayne Mullin Confirmation Hearing into Debate on DHS Shutdown, 2020 Election, ICEFlorida Sheriffs Call for ‘Path to Citizenship’ for Illegal Migrants with JobsMcGovern: DHS, TSA Shutdown Due to Trump ‘Insisting on Doubling Down on Funding ICE and CBP’, ‘I Don’t Want to Fund ICE’
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