Republican ‘Civil War’ Erupts Over Venezuela Strike

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called out Vice President JD Vance after Vance bluntly responded to criticism regarding the U.S. striking Venezuelan narcoterrorists in the Caribbean Sea. 

“JD ‘ I don’t give a s***’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military’… What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” Paul posted on X Saturday.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump shared that he ordered a lethal strike on a boat filled with drugs that was leaving Venezuela. In total, 11 people on the boat were killed, all of whom were members of the designated narcoterrorist group Tren de Aragua. 

Vance began the series of X exchanges when he posted on X Saturday after some on the Left were calling the strike “an act of war” and “illegal.”

“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vance said.

Brian Krassenstein, a political commentator on the Left, responded to Vance, “Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.”

Vance then told Krassenstein, “I don’t give a s*** what you call it.”

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, backed Vance up and confronted Paul, saying on X, “What’s really despicable is defending foreign terrorist drug traffickers who are *directly* responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in Kentucky and Ohio. JD understands that our first responsibility is to protect the life and liberty of American citizens.”

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