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BREAKING: A bombshell U.S. intelligence agency report leaks, destroying the fundamental lie underpinning Donald Trump's entire mass deportation operation.
The MAGA house of lies just came tumbling down...
Drawing on information and expertise from 18 different intelligence agencies in a secret study, the National Intelligence Council has concluded that the Venezuelan government is not directing a covert "invasion" of the United States using the criminal gang Tren de Aragua — directly contradicting Trump's claims.
The Washington Post spoke with "people familiar with the matter" to confirm.
Trump previously claimed that Tren de Aragua is orchestrating am "invasion" of the United States "at the direction" of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a favorite bugaboo of American right-wingers.
Using that fabricated conspiracy theory, Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to justify his mass deportations of alleged gang members. The law was last invoked during WW2 and led to the cruel interment of some 110,000 Japanese Americans.
It was the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act that led to Trump illegally deporting planes full of people — many of them innocent — to a brutal megaprison in El Salvador.
The new intelligence assessment asserts that Tren de Aragua does not operate on the orders of the Venezuelan government and the findings were nearly unanimous.
"The idea that Maduro is directing Tren de Aragua members and sending criminals to infiltrate the United States is ludicrous," Geoff Ramsey, an expert on Venezuela at the Atlantic Council, told The Washington Post.
"Tren de Aragua has become more like a brand that any group of carjackers from Miami down to Argentina can invoke to further their criminal activity, but there’s really no clear sense of hierarchy," he continued.
"And the reality is that Tren de Aragua has not always gotten along with the Maduro government: We saw just a few years ago, the military in 2023, stormed a prison that Tren de Aragua controlled and allegedly carried out extrajudicial executions," he added.
As usual, we see that MAGA policy is built on a haphazardly arrayed pyramid of lies. No serious person believes a word that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth at this point.
