Trump Official Gorka Says Venezuelan Regime Is Connected To 'Other Nations' That Have 'Conspired To Attack' Donald Trump

Deputy Assistant to the President Senior Director for Counter Terrorism National Security Council Sebastian Gorka said the Trump administration's campaign against Venezuela has far-reaching consequences due to the Caracas regime's connections with countries that have "been conspiring to attack members of this administration."

Speaking to Newsmax, Gorka said the operation goes beyond "drugs" and the alleged drug boats the administration has been striking in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific to fight the Cartel de los Soles, which the Trump administration claims is led by the Maduro regime.

"It's not just about drugs. I can't talk about the classified aspects of this. But in open source your viewers can search for the connections of the regime, the Maduro regime, with other bad actors, other states, other nations that, for example, have been conspiring to attack members of this administration, including the president. Iran's tentacles into this hemisphere go straight through Caracas and Venezuela. It is far more complicated than that because it involves regimes that are antithetical to America at their core," Gorka said.

The administration has been escalating its campaign against the regime, with President Donald Trump saying this weekend that he agrees with the premise that Maduro's days are "numbered."

However, Democrats are slamming the developments, with Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton recently slamming the government over what he described as lack of legal justification to conduct strikes off the coast of the country.

Speaking on CNBC, Moulton said he found the Trump administration's argument to conduct the strikes "so flimsy that it makes the case for the Iraq War look like a slam dunk."

"It was that bad. And by the way, at the last minute they pulled the lawyers from the briefings. So all the questions that both Democrats and Republicans had about exactly what you're getting to. what is the legal justification for this, they weren't there to explain it," Moulton added.

He then noted that, at the end of the briefing, he "went to speak to the admiral, who was by far the most impressive person there, and I said 'I hope you recognize the constitutional peril that you are in, and the peril you're putting our troops in.'" "I got the impression from that admiral that it wasn't lost on him," he concluded.

Different reports have illustrated internal concerns about the military's actions. Earlier this week, Reuters noted that troops are being required to sign non-disclosure agreements before taking part in the military campaign.