In January, President Trump’s special presidential envoy Richard Grenell held extensive talks with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro that included discussions of Venezuela receiving deported illegal immigrants and concluded with the release of six American prisoners held in Caracas.

Last Friday, eight short months later, Trump announced Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety” and Washington is awash in rumors of impending ground operations.

And now we have reports that Trump recently told Maduro he’d best flee the country with his family if he wants them all to live.

As Ron Burgundy might say, “That got out of hand fast.”

Maduro’s authoritarian rule has killed, tortured and imprisoned thousands of opposition members, overturned legitimate elections and pillaged both the national treasury and Venezuela’s extensive fossil fuel resources; he is a tyrant who won’t be missed by anyone in Venezuela but his corrupt partners.

And Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants nothing less than the........

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