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It’s as predictable as the Cleveland Browns sitting at home watching the NFL playoffs from afar in January: President Donald Trump does something bold and what should be hailed by Republicans and Democrats alike, but instead, only half are pleased with the result.

In this case, former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, an alleged narco-terrorist and illegitimate president with an outstanding criminal grand jury indictment coming up on six years old, was rightly snatched by U.S. Delta Force commandos out of his high-security compound in Caracas. Two days later, he was being arraigned in a New York district court for alleged crimes, including narco-terrorism and cocaine importation conspiracy.

Estimates may vary, but as many as 100,000 Americans are killed each year from illegal drugs, including fentanyl and cocaine, entering the country from countries such as Venezuela. Context: If multiplying that number from the past 10 years alone, we’re talking more American deaths than those lost in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, 9/11, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.

But the Left is not happy with Trump’s masterstroke here and has been patently hypocritical in the process. Here’s Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) leading the charge on the hypocrisy front.

Murphy, 2019: “If Trump cared about consistency, he would make the realist case for intervention in Venezuela (getting rid of Maduro is good for the United States) rather than trying to pretend his Administration all of the sudden cares about toppling anti-democratic regimes.”

Murphy, 2026, post-Maduro arrest: “The invasion of Venezuela has nothing to do with American security. Venezuela is not a security threat to the U.S.”

Murphy made the latter completely contradictory comment to CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. And for whatever reason, Bash declined to bring up Murphy’s 2019 comments to ask him a simple question: “What changed between........

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