Twitter was ablaze this morning with screechings from Venezuela's Chavista regime, infuriated at the powerful show of force against their brutal, discredited regime coming from President Trump.
Taking an in-your-face approach just three weeks into his presidency, President Trump met with Liliana Tintori, the wife of imprisoned dissident leader Leopoldo Lopez, who was thrown into a dank Chavista dungeon without trial on absolutely phony charges of starting a riot a few years ago.
What a hell of a change from the mealy-mouthed, don't-upset-them approach seen from the Obama and, to some extent, even George Bush White Houses. Trump not only met with Tintori, signaling that she was welcome in the White House any time she liked, he also posed for a photo with her that included Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, to show an unambiguous united front. That unsmiling photo, with a fierce-looking portrait of Andrew Jackson probably quite intentionally in the background, warned the thuggish Caracas regime that the soft hand and benign indifference from the states over the last two decades was over. Meet the iron-tipped boot. Read more here: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/venezuelan_regime_feels_the_irontipped_boot_of_trump.html
Burley
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