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During his #COVID19 press conference, Trump announced that he's deploying the Navy to #Venezuela. Wait, what? What's #coronavirus got to do with Venezuela?

NOTHING.

Trump is distracting us from his incompetence by threatening war. #HandsOffVenezuela
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Trump's justification for the naval deployment is cocaine trafficking. But guess what?? #Venezuela doesn't even produce cocaine! This is just another one of Trump's attempts to #WagTheDog. Check out this map of maritime drug routes. 👇👇👇
Let's take a further look at this map, shall we?
#Venezuela is barely a blip on the map.

If Trump's excuse for deploying ships was truly about drugs, then why isn't the US imposing sanctions & threatening war on Colombia? #WagTheDog
#HandOffVenezuela
Trump also put a $15 million bounty on #Maduro & $10 million bounties on 4 others. That $55 MILLION could be used to buy ventilators for cities & towns in the US desperate for aid during #COVID19.

Trump cares more about regime change than he does about our health. #WagTheDog
Trump's deployment is the latest in his "maximum pressure" strategy that has devastated the Venezuelan economy & caused 100,000 deaths.

How many deaths is a Trump reelection worth??
#WagTheDog
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Rather than showing leadership in the face of the pandemic, Trump is using an old trick: #WagTheDog.

The world deserves better than the US. We need a foreign policy of global solidarity!! #HealthcareNOTWarfare
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The #coronavirus pandemic should bring us all together. Starting a war in the middle of #COVID19 is sickening, demented & cruel.

Fund healthcare, NOT warfare!! #HandsOffVenezuela
#NoBloodForOil
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(1/X) Let’s talk about the shameful op-ed @thehill published on Sunday by @RepTipton (a climate change-denying, anti-abortion homophobe) smearing the peace activists outside the Venezuelan embassy in DC. So many lies we’re going to need a whole thread:
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@thehill @RepTipton (2/X) We’re legal tenants of the building with permission from the democratically-elected, UN-recognized Venezuelan government. No matter how many times pro-coup politicians claim we are 'squatting,' we were given the keys by the representatives of the legitimate government.
@thehill @RepTipton (3/X) Our 'ties' to the govts of Cuba & Venezuela were created by an opposition smear campaign against @medeabenjamin that claimed she had been paid millions by Maduro (though they haven’t decided if it’s $15M or $26M). Shame on @RepTipton for regurgitating blatant propaganda.
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THREAD: voices of peace activists outside of the Venezuelan embassy. #HandsOffVenezuela

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This man traveled from Florida to say #HandsOffVenezuela!
This veteran for peace was disgusted when he saw the video of the @SecretService slamming @VFPNational President Gerry Condon’s face into the ground, and then decided to come support the Embassy Protection Collective and to resist US imperialism here in DC. #HandsOffVenezuela
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