AOC and Swalwell Demolish Regime’s Venezuela Lies, While Tim Walz Slams Trump’s Depraved Conspiracies and Protesters Refuse To Back Down

Trump claims he will run Venezuela—he can't even run a Pez dispenser

While Trump’s busy bragging about his unhinged plan to “run” Venezuela while stealing its oil, I’m glad to have today’s news brief for you.

Corporate media is sanitizing and normalizing Trump’s invasion to please their sponsors and billionaire shareholders. Not us—we’re building a movement to break through their propaganda. And we need all hands on deck.

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MORE PROTESTS AGAINST ICE

Recently, there has been an increase in demonstrations against ICE across the country.

In St. Charles, Illinois, protesters are demanding the city ban federal agents from using public property to conduct their operations. Bernie Kehoe, who attended one of the protests, said what ICE is doing is “wrong. It’s totally wrong … it’s against the Constitution.”

Organizers say they will also be rallying at the city council meeting tonight, and are urging folks to support local businesses impacted by Trump’s immigration abuses.

Folks in Central Islip, New York, have been regularly protesting against inhumane conditions at an ICE holding facility—where a judge recently said immigrants were being detained in a way “that shocks the conscience.” One protester said that “we have to show up … we have to say it’s not OK.”

The judge has threatened the Trump regime with contempt charges for the awful conditions inside, and forced ICE to limit the time it holds detainees to no more than 12 hours.

FACT CHECK: TRUMP’S DERANGED ATTACKS ON WALZ

Trump could see that his attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz did not stick as he had hoped. The lies and propaganda about childcare fraud in Minnesota have been wildly overblown and are getting debunked every single day.

So in a move of desperation, Trump shared a disgusting conspiracy theory that suggested Walz was responsible for the murder of his friend, former MN Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman. But in reality, the man who killed the Hortmans was a Trump supporter.

Walz slammed Trump’s “dangerous, depraved behavior,” stating: “In covering for an actual serial killer, he is going to get more innocent people killed. America is better than this.”

TRUMP CLAIMS HE WILL RUN VENEZUELA

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I wouldn’t trust Trump to run a Pez dispenser. So there’s no way I would ever support him trying to run another country. Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell said it best: “He couldn’t run a casino, and now he’s going to run a country in South America while we watch as he fails to run a country in North America?”

Swalwell piled on: “That doesn’t add up. And neither does this whole concept that we’re going to get the oil from Venezuela … We heard that over 20 years ago from George Bush ... and that cost us $3 trillion.”

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VENEZUELA INVASION

Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and broke down his hypocrisy in simple terms: “It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world last month. It’s ... to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.”

AOC and Swalwell cut right through the noise, which is exactly what we’ve done every day for the last decade. In addition to delivering hard-hitting daily news briefs that demolish maga propaganda, we continue to dominate the conversation on social media. Plus, we aim to contact Congress a million times by the midterms—double what we did last year.

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Onward!

Scott

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I have two questions for you today.

What do you think is the real reason behind Trump invading Venezuela?

What is your reaction to Trump’s attack on Walz?