Democrats have lined up to condemn Trump's successful military operation that brought Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, into custody. Instead of praising the capture of a dictator, they’re accusing Trump of war crimes, and I still suspect articles of impeachment are being drafted. But Joe Biden has been curiously silent… and I think I know why.
Joe Biden used to be a hawk on the war on drugs, and wanted narcoterrorists hunted down. He wanted international strike forces. He demanded there be "no safe haven" for drug lords. Yet after Donald Trump actually captures one of the world's most notorious narco-terrorists, Biden has so far remained silent while his party participates in a chorus of condemnation.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
The Biden-Harris administration even approved a $25 million bounty for information leading to Maduro's arrest just days before they left office. They wanted him caught. They put taxpayer money on the table to make it happen.
Trump delivered what they couldn't, and now they're furious about it.
Biden himself has been conspicuously silent since Maduro's capture. No statement. Probably because even Biden would have approved of the strike had it not been successfully carried out by President Trump.
Biden’s tough talk on Maduro is, in fact, a matter of public record. Heck, he even accused Trump of “admiring” Maduro back in 2020.
"Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro. As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy." Biden then spent four years doing nothing about Maduro. Trump succeeded where Biden failed.
But Biden's past rhetoric makes the current Democratic meltdown even more absurd. In 1989, then-Sen. Biden, who was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, went on national television after George H.W. Bush's drug speech with fire and brimstone. "America is under attack literally," Biden declared. "Under attack by an enemy that is well financed, well supplied, and well armed—and fully capable of declaring total war against a nation and its people. We are fighting, and losing, a war on our own soil."
Biden was talking about drug bosses and traffickers. And his solution? More presidential aggression, not less. "Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force," Biden demanded. "There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists and they must know it."
Wow, that sounds an awful lot like what President Trump just did, doesn’t it? A lot like what Democrats are claiming today is a war crime.
Biden kept hammering that point. "We think we should do more to stem the flow of drugs across our borders, and we think we should go one step further. Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force."
That was Biden's position for decades. Go after them. Strike them where they live—no safe havens. Now, Trump does exactly that, capturing one of the most powerful narco-terrorists on the planet, and yet Democrats are crying foul. The Biden-Harris administration wanted Maduro brought to justice. They put a bounty on his head. They talked tough about standing with the Venezuelan people. Trump delivered the results they never could.
