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Democrats and political leaders are responding to Donald Trump's unlawful invasion of Venezuela and Donald Trump's press conference from Marilago, where Trump says the United States will now

be running Venezuela, that the purpose of the invasion of Venezuela was to seize the oil and take it over for the American oil companies.

Donald Trump also threw the main Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado under the bus.

He says that she's a nice lady, but that the people in Venezuela don't respect her.

She was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, who then praised Donald Trump.

And now he's throwing her under the bus and says she shouldn't run it.

Donald Trump says that he and the United States will be running a country of 28 million people right now.

We'll see what the Venezuelan people are saying about that.

But let's talk about what Congress is saying about that.

Democrats in the House and Democrats in the Senate

and independents in the House and the Center

are calling this an unlawful invasion

that Donald Trump did not get the congressional authority

that was required of this.

And while Maduro is a dictator, which inherently means he's not legitimate, the United States

can't just be engaged in regime change to seize oil and to run countries.

It has a massive destabilizing effect on the world. Number two, it's just a war

crime and it is unlawful in general. And also it gives a permission structure for China to invade

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