GOP Rep. Salazar Slams Laura Loomer Over Venezuela Stance: 'Why Are You Defending A Terrorist Dictator?'

Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar slammed MAGA activist Laura Loomer after the latter claimed the lawmaker advocated for "illegal aliens from Venezuela to stay in the United States" and called for "US intervention and full blown regime change in Venezuela, home to the worlds' largest oil reserves and rare earth mineral reserves."

Loomer made the claim when reacting to an interview in which Salazar said the U.S. is "about to go in" Venezuela as the Trump administration maintains its military pressure campaign against the South American country.

Speaking to Fox Business, Salazar was asked if she thought the campaign against authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro "will force him to leave on his own" as many in the U.S. "don't want actual participation in regime change in Venezuela."

"Maduro is not Fidel Castro. He's not a brave boy. Now he has understood he is in that very nefarious list of terrorist organizations. The airspace above Venezuela has been closed off and commercial airlines from the U.S. are not flying. He is understanding we are about to go in. He understands that he has been our enemy for the last 25 years," Salazar said.

She went on to say that such a scenario would be a "field day" for oil companies as they can "go in and fix oil rigs and everything that has to do with Venezuelan petroleum companies."

In this context, Loomer claimed Maduro "has called for peace and Venezuelans have been holding country wide anti-war protests." "President Trump campaigned on NO NEW WARS. He is the peace President. Salazar is not advocating for Peace," she added.

Salazar reacted with a social media publication of her own, saying Loomer has "no idea" what she's talking about. "I am aligned with President Trump on deporting all CRIMINAL illegal aliens, and unlike you, I support his military buildup off Venezuela to confront a narco-dictatorship + terrorist allies who want to destroy the USA," she claimed.

She went on to say that Maduro is a "narco-dictator who beats, jails, and kills the Venezuelan people," and has "systematically sent the Tren de Aragua gang to destabilize the United States."

"No one actually informed on this topic would ever call anything about Maduro peaceful. That's why he's the enemy head of an FTO under international law, just like BIN LADEN was," she added, in reference to the fact that the Cartel de los Soles, which the Trump administration accuses Maduro and top officials of leading," was officially designated on Monday as a terrorist organization.

"The real question is, why are you defending such an obviously bad, drug-dealing, terrorist dictator? I stand with President Trump and with the Venezuelan people. Unlike you, I will never defend a dictator who shelters terrorists," she concluded.