WATCH: Pence meets with Venezuela’s Guaido after weekend of violence
We don’t usually perceive Vice President Mike Pence as a rough, in-your-face kind of guy, so I feel like if I saw him drop the hammer, I’d be totally freaked.
When he gets mad, it means something. That’s what makes this interaction so much more powerful.
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According to that sourcelink, Pence confronted the Venezuelan ambassador in front of the United Nations Security Council and told him point blank that he shouldn’t be there.
“With all due respect, Mr. Ambassador, you shouldn’t be here,” he told Samuel Moncada. “You should return to Venezuela and tell Nicolas Maduro that his time is up. It’s time for him to go.”
HOLY CRAP. Pence isn’t beating around the bush. I wish he would’ve said, “Your country is a craphole thanks to socialism. Maduro is a disgusting excuse of a human being. Your people are eating zoo animals and digging up corpses to find valuable objects to sell. GTHO. Why are you here bro?”
I guess what he said was close enough.
Moncada’s reaction? He simply shook his head.
Pence urged the Security Council to act to end the Maduro regime and recognize Interim President Juan Guaido. He said also it’s time for the U.N. to seat Guaido’s representative at the U.N. — and expel the current representative.
“Now it’s time for the United Nations to act, and for the world to stand with the people of Venezuela as they march for freedom,” Pence said.
He also announced the U.S. will be providing nearly $61 million in humanitarian assistance, in addition to the $213 million the State Department says it has already provided to Venezuelan refugees living in nearby countries — as well as $43 million in development and economic assistance.
Pence is on FIYAH.
Nothing brings me more joy than Americans dropping the hammer at the UN.
h/t Fox News
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