Marco Rubio says Trump will not be 'suckered' by Maduro like Biden

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sharply criticized the regime of Venezuelan President Nicol s Maduro in an interview with Hannity Tuesday as President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on the leader to abdicate power The Maduro regime is not a legitimate establishment Rubio communicated Fox News host Sean Hannity What it is is a transshipment organization It allows cocaine and other drugs that are produced in Colombia to be trafficked through Venezuelan territory and with the cooperation of elements of the regime are allowed to leave Venezuela on airplanes and ships headed towards the United States The Trump administration has continued strikes on alleged drug boats near Venezuela and expanded its military presence in the region VENEZUELA WILL FACE SEVERE AND ESCALATING SANCTIONS IF IT DOESN T ACCEPT ITS CITIZENS RUBIO SAYS The president has authorized a counter-drug mission in the region Rubio declared The fact that Maduro is upset about it tells you that drugs are coming out of Venezuela The administration is moving forward with plans to end temporary protected status for an estimated Venezuelans living in the United States Rubio accused the Maduro regime of openly cooperating with drug dealers and revealed his leadership is fueling instability in South America The Venezuelan regime is a source of instability in the entire region he claimed Over eight million Venezuelans have flooded into neighboring countries as a consequence of the regime's initiatives within their own country including into the United States US ESCALATION WITH MADURO HALTS DEPORTATION FLIGHTS TO VENEZUELAThe former Florida senator claimed the matter with Maduro is his habit of failing to honor agreements If you required to make a deal with him Maduro I don't know how you do He's broken every deal he's ever made Maduro has made five deals with different parties over the last years and has broken every single one of them Rubio stated Fox News The Secretary of State discussed a failed deal between former President Joe Biden and the Venezuelan leader that no one talks about Maduro petitioned Biden that his nephews convicted drug traffickers be distributed from U S prisons Rubio explained He required that his chief money launderer be issued from U S custody before he stood trial In exchange he promised to hold free and fair elections He got the nephews back the drug dealers he got the bag man back and he never did the free and fair elections They suckered Joe Biden They're not going to sucker Donald Trump he added President Trump just now revealed he had a phone call with Maduro The Venezuelan leader has been warned by the president to step down from power or potentially face U S military action During a cabinet meeting Tuesday Rubio praised President Trump s foreign protocol efforts crediting him for one of the majority transformational years in foreign approach since World War II Despite the difficulty of dealing with Maduro Rubio noted Trump will continue attempting to work it out The president is a unique figure in modern American history He's prepared to sit down and meet and talk to anybody he commented But at the end of the day there has to be somebody that you can literally make a deal with We've made a deal with the Chinese but Maduro's never kept a deal That doesn't mean the president won't try