House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and President Donald Trump. Getty Images/YouTubeHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hammered President Donald Trump’s claims that he will “run” Venezuela after having attacked the country and ″captured” its leader. “Donald Trump claims that he’s gonna run Venezuela. He’s done a terrible job running the United States of America,” Jeffries said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday. However, Jeffries argued that the administration had provided no evidence as to why the US even attacked Venezuela.

Source: Huffington Post January 05, 2026 08:20 UTC