[rad-green] 'No Better Distillation of Washington' : Dems & GOP Join Trump in Standing Ovation for Failed Vene zuelan Coup Leader Juan Guaidó

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/05/no-better-distillation-washington-democrats-and-gop-join-trump-standing-ovation
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/05/no-better-distillation-washington-democrats-and-gop-join-trump-standing-ovation>Common
Dreams          February 5, 2020'No Better Distillation of Washington':
Democrats and GOP Join Trump in Standing Ovation for Failed Venezuelan Coup
Leader Juan Guaidó*


*"Intervening in Venezuela's internal politics is the one thing that is
bipartisan! How sad," said CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin.by Jake
Johnson, staff writer*

*Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido waves as he is acknowledged by
U.S. President Donald Trump during his the State of the Union address at
the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 4, 2020. (Photo: Mandel
Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)*

In a moment observers described as a telling display of the bipartisan
support for regime change that pervades Washington, D.C., congressional
Democrats applauded along with their Republican colleagues after President
Donald Trump used his State of the Union address Tuesday night to praise
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who headed a failed U.S-backed
coup
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/06/economic-terrorism-after-failed-military-coup-attempt-trump-imposes-total-embargo>
against
his country's elected president last year.

Trump hailed Guaidó—who was in attendance for the address—as the "true and
legitimate president of Venezuela," a line that was met with a raucous
standing ovation from members of both political parties, including House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the top Democrat in Congress.

As *NPR* reported
<https://www.npr.org/2020/02/05/802850223/venezuelan-opposition-leader-juan-guaid-inspires-rare-bipartisan-moment>,
"Guaidó received an extended bipartisan standing ovation. It was one of the
few times that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats stood to applaud
during Trump's speech."

Watch:

I don’t give a shit that Nancy Pelosi ripped up Trump’s speech, her
theatrics mean nothing. She stood up and applauded Trump’s fake regime
change president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido. Both party’s leaders are rotten
to the core pic.twitter.com/ggNegSwhaX <https://t.co/ggNegSwhaX>

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) February 5, 2020
<https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1225014222406459393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

Keane Bhatt, policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), tweeted
<https://twitter.com/KeaneBhatt/status/1224884989176811522> in response to
the show of unity that "there is no better distillation of Washington, D.C.
than a State of the Union in which Nancy Pelosi—having just led the
impeachment of Donald 'All Roads Lead to Putin' Trump—twice joins in a
rousing standing ovation of Juan Guaidó, Trump's appointed 'president' of
Venezuela."

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin reacted with dismay to the bipartisan
standing ovation for Guaidó, whose coup attempt against Venezuelan
President Nicolás Maduro quickly collapsed last year despite support from
the U.S. and other nations.

"The Democrats, including Pelosi, just got up to applaud the
self-proclaimed 'president' of Venezuela Juan Guaidó," tweeted
<https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1224883120257761280> Benjamin.
"Intervening in Venezuela's internal politics is the one thing that is
bipartisan! How sad."

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