Jasmine Crockett Believes Donald Trump Is America’s Maduro

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) made a direct comparison between President Donald Trump and the recently-extradited Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, saying that both had attempted to seize “illegitimate” power, but that Maduro had been “successful.”

Crockett made the comments during a Tuesday appearance on ABC’s “The View,” where she claimed that the Trump administration’s move to arrest and extradite Maduro had been “illegal” and claimed the president did not care about what happened to the Venezuelan people.

“When he went in to get Maduro, he killed even more Venezuelans – this ain’t about Venezuelans! I get that there are people that don’t like the leader. But guess what, there are a lot of people that don’t like our leader! And — and — regardless, somebody coming into the United States and grabbing our leader in the middle of the night and killing people in this country, I’m sure everybody would be outraged at them doing it that way.”

“But nobody stops [Trump],” Joy Behar complained.

“I’m trying, Joy,” Crockett said.

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Crockett doubles down and says Trump wants to be the Maduro of the United States:
“Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6th, I do want to be clear, somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to… pic.twitter.com/zQHjBICTkg

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 6, 2026

“I do want to just say this,” Crockett continued. “Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6th, I do want to be clear, somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful.”

Crockett then claimed that Trump’s support of redistricting in states like Texas — where duly-elected representatives of the people had voted to adopt new maps — was concrete proof that the president “doesn’t believe in free and fair elections.”