"All Venezuela experts agree that it would be absurd and preposterous for us to suddenly fly her into the country and to put her in charge, and the military would follow her, and the security forces would follow her, Miller said, bristling at the question. This isn't this is not a serious it's not even a serious question."
"The reason why I was giving you that speech, which I know you didn't want to hear, is because you're approaching this from the wrong frame, Miller declared. This neoliberal frame that the United States's job is to go around the world and and demanding immediate elections to be held everywhere immediately, all the time, right away. No, that's not what I think, Tapper shot back. But you invaded the country! We went into the country and we seized the leader of Venezuela."
"Damn straight we did! he yelled. Because the point, Jake, is we're not going to let tinpot communist dictators send rapists into our country, send drugs into our country, send weapons into our country, okay? And we're not going to let a country fall into the hands of our adversaries."
Jake Tapper questioned why Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was unsuitable for U.S.-backed leadership. Stephen Miller rejected the premise, calling such a plan absurd and insisting the military and security forces would not follow her. Miller criticized a 'neoliberal frame' demanding immediate elections and invoked Monroe Doctrine-style and 'Trump Doctrine' arguments to justify U.S. action. Tapper noted interim leader Decly Rodriguez's ties to the Maduro regime and accused the U.S. of invading and seizing Venezuela's leader. Miller openly celebrated the seizure, saying the U.S. would not allow 'tinpot communist dictators' to send criminals, drugs, or weapons into the country.
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