philip giraldi speaks about the trump game and venezuela;

Maduro captured: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been captured after a large-scale US strike on the capital city of Caracas, according to US President Donald Trump.

Trump said Maduro is aboard the USS Iwo Jima heading for New York, where he will face drugs and weapons charges in Manhattan federal court. See CNN’s live coverage of the strikes.“

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It is particularly difficult to pick out the most idiotic comments made by President Donald Trump over the past week as there is so much to choose from.

There were the memorable doodle-headed speeches before the Israeli Knesset and the so-called Peace gathering in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt and the threats against Hamas over the failure to come up with the bodies of Israeli hostages that were killed by American government provided bombs dropped by Israel and are now buried beneath piles of rubble.

And then there is the Insurrection Act, cited nearly every day by Trump or one of his cabinet, which, if it is successfully called for and passes through judicial review, will truly turn the United States into a police state ruled by a leader that clearly is mentally incompetent as well as providing all the signs that he is a narcissistic psychopath whose goal in holding the presidency is to be surrounded by folks who tell him constantly how great he is! And let’s not forget the bloviation regarding the “Triumphal” Arch being planned for the Arlington National Cemetery end of Memorial Bridge leading to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

What the often-garrulous if incoherent Trump never said in the context of conflict in the Middle East was that a “GENOCIDE conducted by Israel is taking place in Gaza” as that is a word that is strictly verboten in the circle that surrounds him even though nearly all of the rest of the world sees it otherwise. He nevertheless frequently expressed his pain at the thought of 20 Israeli “hostages” with little to spare for an estimated 20,000 dead Palestinian children. To mention Gazan suffering would presumably would cut off the $100 million plus loose change that comes his way from donors like Israeli Las Vegas casino multi-billionaire Miriam Adelson, who flew with Trump on Air Force One and grinned when he announced publicly how she was worth $60 billion and posited how she is more loyal to Israel than she is to the United States. It was what some might regard as a genuine national security issue that did not seem to bother the president in the least. The Knesset audience cheered however, particularly when Trump related how Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights had been secured through a bribe he had received from the Adelsons during his first term in office.............more............