Fox News' Laura Ingraham took supporting President Donald Trump's military action in Venezeula a step further, by suggesting the Venezuelan government should actually have to pay the United States for executing the capture of strongman Nicolás Maduro.
Ingraham put forward the idea while interviewing Franklin Camargo, a Venezuelan who fled the country in 2019.
"Americans have to be paid back. That's for sure. We lost trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I know the Venezuelan people would be fine with that," she claimed.
Maduro has starved and repressed the Venezuelan nation for years and refused to acknowledge being rejected by voters during the most recent election. He is widely considered by U.S. authorities on both sides of the aisle to be ruling illegitimately.
However, Trump's capture of Maduro and transportation to the U.S. to be tried on federal charges has triggered controversy, with members of Congress concerned that Trump acted without proper legislative authority and is failing to properly brief members on details of the operation.
Meanwhile, Trump's refusal to back María Corina Machado, the politician who rightfully won the previous election, and instead acknowledge Maduro loyalists as ruling the country for the time being, has spawned additional outrage, with new reporting suggesting the CIA backed the move to ensure "stability" but one White House source hinting Trump may have soured on Machado for not giving him her Nobel Prize.