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Why isn't Maduro being sent to a military prison and charged in a military court ???
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Posted on 01/03/2026 5:15:05 PM PST by Java4Jay

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Wait until he spills the beans about Dominion Voting Systems, his involvement in the 2020 election steal, and possible implications of other countries being involved in all that.

Then this drug stuff will be a sideshow and small potatoes.

We are probably looking right over the edge of the abyss at an enormous global crisis — Trump is about to take the fight to globalism in general, he knows if he doesn’t do it, nobody ever will, all our kids and grandkids will be brainwashed automatons and who among them will even know they are slaves?

The perfect slavery is when the slave thinks he is free.


41 posted on 01/03/2026 6:12:34 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Do not go gentle into that good night; rage, rage against the dying of the light -- Dylan Thomas)
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To: Java4Jay

Good question. And my understanding he’ll be tried in New York. Ha ha, it’s like trying a fox for eating chickens in a court made up of of wolves.

And if Bondi has anything to do with the prosecution, Maduro will be back home taking the country back.


42 posted on 01/03/2026 6:13:47 PM PST by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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To: ponygirl

It didn’t take long. An Obama appointed judge has been assigned to Maduro’s case.

No bueno.

-SB


43 posted on 01/03/2026 6:14:35 PM PST by Snowybear (Do or do not, there is no try.)
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To: Java4Jay
>>>Capture was a military ops

The US military was operational security and tactics to make a civilian arrest.

President Trump made it clear that law enforcement was present. I suspect US Marshals.

The US military acted similar to SWAT unit for serving an arrest warrant. (IMO)

44 posted on 01/03/2026 6:17:19 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

If anything, Trump is understating the end goal. The US will eventually run this hemisphere. South America will fall like dominoes.


45 posted on 01/03/2026 6:17:46 PM PST by Kleon
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To: Java4Jay

The indictment used to initiate the arrest of Maduro was drafted and issued during the 1st Trump presidential term in 2020.

Therefore the jurisdiction is not one which could support Military Court process.

The indictment was issued in 2020 in the Southern District of New York.


46 posted on 01/03/2026 6:18:11 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Java4Jay

Because, he was federally indicted in the Southern District of New York. His indictment alleges that Maduro led a decades-long conspiracy in which Venezuelan leaders abused their power to import tons of cocaine into the United States, working with groups like the FARC and Sinaloa Cartel.


47 posted on 01/03/2026 6:27:41 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Kleon

Yes, he tends to stake a huge claim, then, if he doesn’t win at that point, it becomes a strong negotiating position leading to an acceptable outcome.

The concept of Rubio and a small crew of wonks waltzing back in to Venezuela, say, in the middle of next week, hip checking the Venezuela federalis to one side, and announcing to the assembled press that we will now begin “running” Venezuela, without ever having conquered it? That has to be the mother of all huge claims staked by PDJT!


48 posted on 01/03/2026 6:32:54 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Java4Jay

I was hoping during the prep walk a lone drug addicted tranny in a furry suit would take him out.


49 posted on 01/03/2026 6:36:22 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Peter ODonnell

“Edge of the Abyss...”
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I expect Nothing Less From PDJT.


50 posted on 01/03/2026 6:43:22 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Java4Jay

Much easier to try him in a communist country like New York, with communist judges.


51 posted on 01/03/2026 6:43:29 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: one guy in new jersey

Trump is being Trump.

Someone has to manage things after decapitation.

US companies will invest in and control the oil.

Ultimately (after election) we will have someone in there we can “depend on.”

Just protecting our back yard. I’d guess Cuban and Mexican leaders are pretty nervous right now.


52 posted on 01/03/2026 6:43:32 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Well the only reason I can think of as to why Maduro is being tried by the DOJ is that he’s spilled all the goods on Smart matic and how the 2020 election was stolen and who the players were. Likely he’ll be a witness.

There’s a lot of talk that these phone calls with Trump was Maduro negotiating his way to being extracted from Caracas to avoid being taken off the chessboard by other actors that hold more power than Maduro. Hes probably more of a puppet than we know.


53 posted on 01/03/2026 6:56:40 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: redfreedom

You idiots never give up


54 posted on 01/03/2026 6:59:09 PM PST by digger48
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To: Snowybear

Who makes these decisions? I thought there was a rotating list of judges that get assigned. Are there ever any Bush judges, Trump term 1 judges? Seems everything is Obama or Biden judges.


55 posted on 01/03/2026 7:01:31 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: digger48

Has Bondi ever given you a vote of confidence?


56 posted on 01/03/2026 7:06:49 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: MV=PY

Someone needs to clue in Matt Drudge that this was a law enforcement action before he posts more stupid headlines like “Congress Did Not Authorize”!


57 posted on 01/03/2026 7:18:46 PM PST by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union to get paid for loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Maduro was taken on a DOJ warrant for particular federal crimes. He is not now or ever was considered to be an enemy combatant. If I have read the events correctly while Delta made entry into Maduro’s fortress it was DOJ officers who took him and is wife into custody. I give plaudits to Trump. He’s trying to do this right.


58 posted on 01/03/2026 7:19:19 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: MV=PY

What about Colin Powell’s rule?: You break it, you own it.

Trump appears to have broken something.

Or is it that Venezuela was already 100% broken, so Trump by shattering the thing is fostering its recovery, fixing, healing...🤔🧐


59 posted on 01/03/2026 7:22:42 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Java4Jay

Good question!!
And WHY SEND THIS DB TO NY??


60 posted on 01/03/2026 7:36:00 PM PST by bantam
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