House GOP critics break with Trump over Venezuela operation that captured Maduro

By Fox News · Fox News

President Donald Trump's House GOP critics are ripping the administration's operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of the country's president, Nicolás Maduro. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the first to criticize the Trump administration's operation in Venezuela, again breaking from the majority of his party and butting heads with the commander-in-chief. Massie, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign intervention, appeared to question the legality of the federal government's Venezuela strikes. "If this action were constitutionally sound, the Attorney General wouldn’t be tweeting that they’ve arrested the President of a sovereign country and his wife for possessing guns in violation of a 1934 U.S. firearm law," Massie posted to X on Saturday morning. US CAPTURE OF MADURO CHAMPIONED, CONDEMNED ACROSS WORLD STAGE AFTER SURGICAL VENEZUELA STRIKES The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a four-count indictment against Maduro after Trump confirmed the U.S. took custody of the Venezuelan leader and his wife following strikes in the capital of Caracas. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement those charges were "Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States." It's not immediately clear what Maduro's wife, Celia Flores, has been charged with. In a follow-up posted on the charges, Massie said, "25-page indictment but no mention of fentanyl or stolen oil. Search it for yourself." Trump said on Fox News that Maduro and Flores were being flown to the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, which will bring them to the U.S. where they will face criminal proceedings led by the Southern District of New York. Massie's criticism was followed by scathing comments by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., another Trump critic who is retiring from Congress early next week before finishing her term. TRUMP CASTS MADURO’S OUSTER AS ‘SMART’ MOVE AS R…