Principles, policy, and politics collided in the Senate Wednesday as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky dueled over the merits of the raid that brought Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to America.
“I think we’re in violation of both the spirit and the law of the Constitution by bombing a capital, blockading a country, and removing elected officials. And we certainly wouldn’t tolerate it, nor would I, if someone did it to us,” Paul said in a video posted to X of part of the exchange between the two men.
“We didn’t remove an elected official,” Rubio replied.
“We removed someone who was not elected. And it was actually an indicted drug trafficker in the United States,” he said.
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