'What The F**k!?!': Jon Stewart Shreds Trump's 'High-Minded Pretense' For Venezuela Attack
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The "Daily Show" host joked that Americans "can't even be conspiracy theorists now" after Trump and friends shared the casus belli behind the strikes.
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart gave Donald Trump hell on Monday after the U.S. military attacked Venezuela and captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at home in the middle of the night.
Historically, Stewart said, America would come up with a high-minded pretense for intervening in other countries. He wondered what moral foundation the Trump administration would use to frame Saturday’s military operation that killed at least 80 people. He then tossed to clips of Trump claiming that the U.S. would have a presence in Venezuela... so we can obtain its oil.
“Is this your first war? I mean, what the fuck?!?” Stewart exclaimed.
Stewart turned to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and urged him to give Trump a casus belli that didn’t involve oil.
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