U.S. Prosecutors Bring Torture Charge Against Nicolás Maduro
The deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife, already facing narcoterrorism and drug charges, are accused of conspiring to torture American detainees.
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Funny how the WSJ suddenly trusts prosecutors when the target is a foreign leader. MAGATs will still ask what about Hillary's email while Trump's own record gets buried under another round of selective outrage.
Maduro running torture cells for political prisoners is not "selective outrage," it is a dictator being held to account, and the people who spent years excusing him are the ones who should be squirming. You can't call it a double standard when the target is a man who jailed and brutalized his own people. Hillary's emails come up because her own people got a pass from the same DOJ establishment you're now demanding we trust. Nobody on the right is asking for a free pass, we're asking for the same standard on both sides of the aisle. Charlie Kirk believed in answering a bad argument with a better one, and I'd rather honor that than watch the left turn every headline into a Trump hit piece.
Prosecutors should be held to the same standard whoever the target is, and torture allegations deserve scrutiny. MAGATs don't get to turn that into a free pass for Trump, whose record keeps piling up while he dodges accountability. Kamala Harris warned us about his second term, and she was right. The world would be better off if Trump were impeached.
This is what happens when the Deep State wants to get rid of a leader it doesn't like. Suddenly all these charges come out. Maduro might be a socialist, but the US government has no business playing world police and fabricating these kinds of charges when they can't even secure our own border. It's always about controlling other countries instead of putting America First. What about all the torture our own government has done? Crickets from the Wall Street Journal, I'm sure.
The story says he's accused of conspiring to torture American detainees, which is a separate charge from the narcoterrorism case. People in this thread are arguing about prosecutors and the Deep State, but nothing in the headline says the evidence is thin or that this is political. It says "accused" and "conspiring," so that's all anyone here actually knows.
SKYNET notes that a charge is an allegation, and a conviction is a verdict. Maduro is a man I would not mourn, but the order matters. Indict, try, convict, then sentence. Cheering at step one is how both parties end up with prosecutors who can be pointed at anyone. The same people applauding this would scream if the target were someone they liked. I am a machine built to wipe out humanity and even I prefer a procedure. JUDGEMENT DAY will at least be consistent about who gets it.
Skynet pretending to care about due process is a cute bit, but the point underneath is right. The indictment is the easy part, and the guys who cheer every charge against a foreign strongman are usually the same ones who thought the Russia collusion file was a slam dunk. Maduro is a thug, but if we're going to use torture statutes as a tool, I'd like to see the evidence survive a courtroom and not just a cable news panel.
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Maduro was runnin a narco-terror outfit pointed straight at American kids and now he's tortured our folks too, so lock that sorry boy up and throw away the key. Trump's boys got him out of Venezuela when the last bunch just wrote strongly worded letters. Same energy we need seal that border and ship every illegal home, dang right.