WATCH: Sen. Tim Kaine Calls Trump’s Anti-Cartel Strikes a “War Crime”
Virginia Senator Tim Kaine appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation this week, and the interview revealed exactly why Democrats cannot be trusted to handle the growing national-security threat coming from Venezuela.
As the situation inside Nicolás Maduro’s collapsing regime escalates by the hour, Kaine used his airtime not to warn Americans about the danger on our doorstep, but to second-guess U.S. military commanders, undermine President Trump, and defend a system that has allowed drug trafficking to pour across the hemisphere for decades.
While Venezuela’s borders destabilize and U.S. intelligence continues to detect cartel-linked militias operating with Maduro’s approval, Kaine dismissed the urgency as a constitutional dispute.
He recycled the same talking point Democrats always use during foreign-policy crises: President Trump must “get approval” from Congress before taking any military action.
That argument ignores the reality facing the United States.
Venezuela is not a distant conflict. It sits three hours from Miami and has become the main operational hub for armed groups, cocaine routes, illegal mining syndicates, and Iranian-backed operatives who now move freely through the country.
As of this year, the U.N. estimates Venezuela hosts more than 300 illegal armed factions, many tied directly to global terrorist networks and transnational crime rings.
Instead of acknowledging this threat, Kaine focused on criticizing U.S. boat strikes against drug-running vessels, calling them possibly “illegal” and even a “war crime.”
He went as far as questioning whether the targets were even drug traffickers, despite overwhelming DEA and SOUTHCOM evidence showing that Venezuelan shipping lanes have become some of the most dangerous narco-corridors in the world.
Kaine also repeated unverified claims from anonymous attorneys and foreign governments—countries that benefit from a weak United States—to cast doubt on Trump’s strategy to shut down Venezuela’s airspace, a move that U.S. officials say is necessary to prevent coordinated flights involving cartel leaders and foreign intelligence assets.
Kaine’s most reckless claim came when he argued that President Trump “doesn’t care” about the narcotics crisis simply because Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted on drug-trafficking charges.
That argument ignores the basic fact that Trump’s policies cut border crossings by historic margins, dismantled cartel routes in Central America, and forced Mexico to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers to its southern border.
Under Trump, fentanyl seizures hit record highs, and cartel profits dropped for the first time in a decade.
The real danger is not Trump’s response—it is Venezuela itself.
A hostile narco-state aligned with Iran, Cuba, and global criminal syndicates represents a direct threat to American communities.
President Trump understands that. Democrats like Tim Kaine still do not.
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