The president has repeatedly tied Venezuela to drug overdose deaths, claimed the Maduro regime sent an influx of criminal migrants and accused the country of stealing American oil.
The vice president accused a woman who was shot dead by an ICE agent Wednesday of criminally trying to ram the officer, whom he described as acting in self-defense.
Democrats say the president cannot take money from the proceeds of seized oil and control it himself, calling it a ‘slush fund' that would fly in the face of the Constitution.
Republicans have cheered the raid that ousted Nicolás Maduro but toiled to square their longstanding views with President Trump's unclear and rapidly evolving strategy.
