Carville: Venezuela Is All About the Epstein Files

Since the weekend's attack on Venezuela and the seizure of Maduro and his wife, at the orders of the Felon,  no clear plan for what comes next seems to exist save for the Felon's claims that the America will "run Venezuela" and that millions of barrels of oil will be taken by him/the United States. Maduro's faction remains in power and the country is sliding into even more instability. Pundits - the CBS anchor sounded like a hired cheerleader for the Felon - have tried to buy into the seemingly non-existent plan for going forward or, like CBS and Fox News failed to look for true motives. Yes, Maduro was a bad actor, but what's the plan after his removal?  Of course, all of this ignores what James Carville calls out as the true motive: distraction from the Epstein files and the flailing Felon/GOP economy. Insane threats against Columbia, the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland only ramp up the media's distraction from what the Felon fears the most: the full release of the Epstein files, more and more of which continue to be "discovered" by the Felon's Department of Justice.  As also noted, the adventure in Venezuela has shifted media coverage from the healthcare crisis put in motion by the falsely named "big beautiful bill" and the continued rising prices of consumer goods and energy. A piece at Salon looks at Carville's assessment:

James Carville thinks the pundit class are trying too hard to make sense of [the Felon's] President Donald Trump‘s stunning strike on Venezuela. The former Democratic Party strategist said the entire operation was a diversion from the ongoing release of the Epstein Files and the rising costs of healthcare.

“Why’s he doing this? What’s his objective? You know what his objective is. It’s Jeffrey Epstein. They keep finding I don’t know how many more millions of documents,” Carville said in a video for Politicon on Saturday.

Carville slathered disrespect on television hosts and lawmakers who were racking their brains over Trump’s motivation.

“If you think this is anything remotely legit, or this is in furtherance of some foreign policy aim, or some aim of American interests, come on, please! Please, people! It’s all about Epstein! Wake up! Get the scales off your eyes!” he said. “Think beyond just the front of your nose!”

Carville said that Trump carried out the attack on Venezuela as a last-ditch effort to avoid a complete revolt over continued revelations from the Epstein Files.

“In his reptilian survival way, he says ‘I’m going to do this and draw attention away from Epstein,'” he said.

Trump has followed the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with threats toward other Latin American leaders. He singled out Mexico, Cuba and Colombia in statements following the weekend attack, saying that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hasn’t done enough to combat drug cartels and accusing Colombian President Gustavo Petro of “making cocaine.”

In an interview with “Fox & Friends,” he said Petro needs to “watch his ass.” 

Petro has condemned the strikes on Colombia’s neighbor and taken shots at American leaders whose names appear in the Epstein Files. Late last year, Petro said that the United States was run by a “clan of pedophiles” trying to “destroy democracy in Colombia.”

“To keep the list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen,” he said. “As if the people of Colombia would applaud an invasion of their brother.”