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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

We want drug trafficking to stop. We want no more gang members to come our way.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

Don’t ask me who’s in charge, because I’ll give you an answer, and it’ll be very controversial.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Jan 10, 2026

You can accept that this woman’s death is a tragedy while acknowledging it’s a tragedy of her own making.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jan 10, 2026

Any loss of life is a tragedy, and I think all of us can agree that in this situation, it was preventable.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

These ships, if they weren’t in the Caribbean, they’d be somewhere else conducting activity.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

This is tremendous leverage. We are exercising it in a positive way.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

Understand they are not generating any revenue from their oil right now.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

The US could be overseeing Venezuela for much longer than six months or a year.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

We want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets, and that supports critical supply chains; and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

As you probably know we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

They both left very quickly when we arrived

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
@robertfkennedyjr· Democratic · NY· Jan 10, 2026

Loopholes and fraud diverted that money to bad actors instead.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

Should never be elected to office again.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

I would like to make a deal the easy way but if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

We are going to do something in Greenland, whether they like it or not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.

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Karoline Leavitt
@karolineleavitt· Republican · NH· Jan 10, 2026

All orders, lawful orders are presumed to be legal by our service members.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Jan 10, 2026

It’s not going to change anything about how we conduct foreign policy over the next couple of weeks or the next couple of months.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 10, 2026

Yeah, there is one thing: My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 9, 2026

We'll be hitting them very hard where it hurts. And that doesn't mean boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 9, 2026

I've made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved.

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