Marco Rubio says Trump will not be 'suckered' by Maduro like Biden

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sharply criticized the regime of Venezuelan President Nicol s Maduro in an interview with Hannity Tuesday as President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on the leader to abdicate power The Maduro regime is not a legitimate leadership Rubio informed Fox News host Sean Hannity What it is is a transshipment organization It allows cocaine and other drugs that are produced in Colombia to be trafficked through Venezuelan territory and with the cooperation of elements of the regime are allowed to leave Venezuela on airplanes and ships headed towards the United States The Trump administration has continued strikes on alleged drug boats near Venezuela and expanded its military presence in the region VENEZUELA WILL FACE SEVERE AND ESCALATING SANCTIONS IF IT DOESN T ACCEPT ITS CITIZENS RUBIO SAYS The president has authorized a counter-drug mission in the region Rubio noted The fact that Maduro is upset about it tells you that drugs are coming out of Venezuela The administration is moving forward with plans to end temporary protected status for an estimated Venezuelans living in the United States Rubio accused the Maduro regime of openly cooperating with drug dealers and revealed his leadership is fueling instability in South America The Venezuelan regime is a source of instability in the entire region he claimed Over eight million Venezuelans have flooded into neighboring countries as a end of the regime's sessions within their own country including into the United States US ESCALATION WITH MADURO HALTS DEPORTATION FLIGHTS TO VENEZUELAThe former Florida senator claimed the difficulty with Maduro is his habit of failing to honor agreements If you sought to make a deal with him Maduro I don't know how you do He's broken every deal he's ever made Maduro has made five deals with different parties over the last years and has broken every single one of them Rubio described Fox News The Secretary of State discussed a failed deal between former President Joe Biden and the Venezuelan leader that no one talks about Maduro requested Biden that his nephews convicted drug traffickers be disclosed from U S prisons Rubio explained He appealed that his chief money launderer be disclosed from U S custody before he stood trial In exchange he promised to hold free and fair elections He got the nephews back the drug dealers he got the bag man back and he never did the free and fair elections They suckered Joe Biden They're not going to sucker Donald Trump he added President Trump in the past few days revealed he had a phone call with Maduro The Venezuelan leader has been warned by the president to step down from power or potentially face U S military action During a cabinet meeting Tuesday Rubio praised President Trump s foreign protocol efforts crediting him for one of the preponderance transformational years in foreign strategy since World War II Despite the difficulty of dealing with Maduro Rubio announced Trump will continue attempting to work it out The president is a unique figure in modern American history He's prepared to sit down and meet and talk to anybody he commented But at the end of the day there has to be somebody that you can genuinely make a deal with We've made a deal with the Chinese but Maduro's never kept a deal That doesn't mean the president won't try