Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in full savage mode Sunday, dismantling the corporate media’s bad-faith talking points days after the successful arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Marco Rubio was in no mood to coddle the legacy media on Sunday and Margaret Brennan learned that the hard way.
Rubio went on CBS and proceeded to dismantle the network’s breathless, bad-faith questioning.
Brennan whined that the overnight raid did not magically arrest every narco-terrorist embedded inside Venezuela’s regime, like Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, a guy with deep ties to Russia and a $15 million bounty on his head.
BRENNAN: “The defense minister, who has deep ties to Russia, has a $15 million price on his head. He is still in place. I’m confused. Are they still wanted by the United States? Why didn’t you arrest them if you are taking out the narco-terrorist regime?”
Rubio didn’t miss a beat.
RUBIO: “You’re confused? I don’t know why that’s confusing to you. I mean, it’s very simple.”
Rubio then hit her with a cold, hard dose of reality:
RUBIO: “You’re not going to go in and wrap up—but you’re going to go in and scoop up five people? They’re already complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go in and stay there four days to capture four other people.
We got the top priority. The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country—who he was not—and he was arrested, along with his wife, who was also indicted. That was a pretty sophisticated and, frankly, complicated operation. It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country.
The guy lived on a military base—land within three minutes, kick down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in a helicopter, and leave the country without losing any Americans or any American assets. That’s not an easy mission. You’re asking me, why didn’t we do that in five other places at the same time?
I mean, that’s absurd. I do think this is one of the most daring, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. Tremendous credit to the U.S. military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable.”
WATCH:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just took CBS’ Margaret Brennan to the woodshed on live TV over the Maduro raid.
“I don’t know why that’s confusing to you.”
Brennan spiraled over the fact that the operation did not seize EVERY narco terrorist in Venezuela, but Rubio hit her with… pic.twitter.com/6AtPJowG8A
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Once again, the fake news made its priorities unmistakably clear: not American success, not the liberation of the Venezuelan people. Figures like Brennan, alongside Democrats, will never acknowledge a Trump-era victory, no matter how decisive or historic it is.
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