Democrats have been losing their minds over President Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela to capture and arrest the dictator Nicolás Maduro, who was wanted in the United States and had been under indictment for five years.
We saw Democrats calling it illegal and claiming that Trump needed Congressional approval to effect Maduro's arrest. Their hypocrisy is something else, given the actions taken by Democrats like Barack Obama in the past.
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Do they recall how many civilians Barack Obama in foreign countries reportedly took out with his drone actions, which led to some referring to him as the Droner-in-Chief?
Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Between 384 and 807 civilians were killed in those countries, according to reports logged by the Bureau.
Do they recall Obama's actions in Libya that went on for months without Congressional approval? They even had ABC questioning his actions. Can anyone forget this?
Obama and Clinton did not seek congressional authorization to wage an 8-month long war in Libya.
— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) January 3, 2026
“We came, we saw, he died,” they chortled as they violated the War Powers Resolution.
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"We came, we saw, he died," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laughed.
Imagine the hypocrisy it takes to criticize Trump, after those kinds of actions by a Democrat.
But perhaps the Democrat who most inserted his foot into his mouth was Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who was mad that he hadn't been told before the action.
Schumer: I was in the SCIF on three different occasions as recently as, December, and I asked the administration, are you pursuing regime change? Are you intent on taking military action in Venezuela? Venezuelan territory? And they assured me that they were not pursuing those…
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 3, 2026
Schumer: I was in the SCIF on three different occasions as recently as December, and I asked the administration, are you pursuing regime change? Are you intent on taking military action in Venezuela? Venezuelan territory? And they assured me that they were not pursuing those things. Clearly, they're not being straight with the American people.
Wait, what, Chuck? What did you just say? Did he just talk about what was said in the SCIF?
And you wonder why you weren't told? It was incredibly important for operational security to be able to pull this off, to keep this close to the vest. And if you're talking about what was said in the SCIF, there's a problem.
People immediately called it out.
Nothing says you take national security seriously like publicizing conversations you say you had in a SCIF. https://t.co/LDFR7Q95fE
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) January 3, 2026
Schumer disclosing classified conversations to argue that he should have been told more in those classified conversations. https://t.co/M5p85qGBLM
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) January 3, 2026
Democrats are not only incredibly hypocritical, but they don't have a leg to stand on here.
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