Thread by @EpochTimes

🔴LIVE @ 4:25 PM (EST):

President @realDonaldTrump will deliver remarks to the Venezuelan American Community at #Florida International University at approximately 4:25 PM.

Watch here: theepochtimes.com/live/

"In Venezuela the people are on the brink of reclaiming their own liberty…There is hope, we are free, and we pray together loudly and proudly that soon, the people of Venezuela will be free as well," says @FLOTUS Melania Trump.

"We are profoundly grateful to every dissident, every exile, every political prisoner, and everyone who bears witness to the horrors of socialism and communism and who has bravely spoken out against them." - @POTUS Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump on #Venezuela

"Not long ago, Venezuela was the wealthiest nation, by far, in South America. But years of Socialist rule have brought this once thriving nation to the brink of ruin." -@realDonaldTrump #Venezuela

"Venezuela's national assembly invoked the Venezuelan Constitution to declare the president of the national assembly, Juan Guaido, as the country's legitimate leader…within 30 minutes, the [US] was proud to be the first nation i the world to recognize President Guaido." - @POTUS

"We must all work together to end a humanitarian disaster. As we speak there are truckloads filled with hundreds of tons of desperately needed humanitarian supplies stopped at the borders of Venezuela and waiting to help the millions and millions in need." - @POTUS #Venezuela

Trump gives #Venezuela's military a choice:

"We seek a peaceful transition of power, but all options are open. We want to restore Venezuelan democracy, and we believe that the Venezuelan military and its leadership have a vital role to play in this process."

"For decades, the socialist dictatorships of Cuba and Venezuela have propped each other up in a very corrupt bargain. Venezuela gave Cuba oil, and in return Cuba gave Venezuela a police state run directly from Havana. But this is a very different day, and those days are over."

Trump gives a powerful condemnation of #Socialism in #Venezela and around the world:
"Socialism promises prosperity, but it delivers poverty. Socialism promises unity, but it delivers hatred and it delivers division. Socialism promises a better future, but it always return to…

…the darkest chapters of the past… Socialism is a sad and discredited ideology rooted in the total ignorance of history and human nature, which is why socialism, eventually, must always give rise to tyranny, which it does. Socialists profess a love of diversity, but they…

… always insist on absolute conformity. We know socialism is not about justice. It's not about equality. It's not about lifting up the poor. Socialism is about one thing only–power for the ruling class."