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President Donald Trump declined to speak with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday with a brutally honest response that probably didn’t sit well with the socialist strongman.

The South American leader requested to speak with Trump on the phone, according to The Associated Press, and the response was one every American should cheer.

“President Trump will gladly speak with the leader of Venezuela as soon as democracy is restored in that country,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement, according to The Hill.

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That’s putting it bluntly. But the statement went even further:

“Since the start of this administration, President Trump has asked that Maduro respect Venezuela’s constitution, hold free and fair elections, release political prisoners, cease all human rights violations, and stop oppressing Venezuela’s great people.

“The Maduro regime has refused to heed this call, which has been echoed around the region and the world. Instead, Maduro has chosen the path of dictatorship.”

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Trump recently issued sanctions on Venezuelan officials. The United States is the top importer of Venezuelan oil but, so far, Washington has stopped short of issuing any sanctions on the Venezuelan energy sector.

Trump also said on Friday that he had not ruled out the possibility of military action in Venezuela as a result of the political and social turmoil.

Last month, Trump  called for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela and in a statement, said the U.S. “stands with the people of Venezuela in their quest to restore their country to a full and prosperous democracy.”

Venezuela, a nation rich in oil reserves, has been in turmoil for months and is on the brink of collapse as the government keeps citizens in a stranglehold of socialism.

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That’s why Trump isn’t giving Maduro much wiggle room when it comes having discussions of any kind.

If Maduro wants to talk to an American president, he can stop acting like a socialist dictator.

Share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about Trump’s response to the Venezuelan president’s request.

A New York Democrat is under fire after she tweeted that the National Rifle Association should be considered as a threat to domestic security after President Trump was elected.

Kathleen Rice took to Twitter to make her audacious claim against the NRA which serves as a powerful lobby against those yappy liberals whose wet dream would be confiscating the guns of all law-abiding citizens, leaving them at the mercy of the criminals who would refuse to surrender their firearms.

Congresswoman Rice tweeted:

I’m just going to say it. #NRA & @DLoesch are quickly becoming domestic security threats under President Trump. We can’t ignore that.

— Kathleen Rice (@RepKathleenRice) August 11, 2017

The woman’s Twitter timeline is typical for a Democrat and chock full of Russian conspiracy theories, race-baiting and criticism of Trump.

Her office then doubled-down by issuing a press release:

2. Statement from @RepKathleenRice‘s spokesman on her now controversial tweet about @Dloesch and the @NRA http://pic.twitter.com/liyDUkLwEM

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 11, 2017

She also attacked the NRA’s spokeswoman Dana Loesch.

Lawmaker: NRA and its chief spokeswomen are a ‘domestic security threat’https://t.co/8yBwEB1Tpg http://pic.twitter.com/rkX39vQsA7

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) August 11, 2017

Via the Washington Times” Rep. Kathleen Rice: NRA and its chief spokeswomen are a ‘domestic security threat’”:

A U.S. House member called the National Rifle Association and one of its chief spokeswomen a threat to national security.

Rep. Kathleen Rice, New York Democrat, appeared to be responding to NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch noting that Philando Castile was in possession of marijuana when police shot the motorist dead. According to her next tweet five minutes later, that makes the NRA a “domestic security threat.”

“I’m just going to say it. #NRA & @DLoesch are quickly becoming domestic security threats under President Trump. We can’t ignore that,” Ms. Rice said.

At the time of the tweet Ms. Loesch was appearing on Fox News Channel, and when host Mark Steyn told her of Ms. Rice accusation, a surprised Ms. Loesch called it disappointing that a House member would call defense of the Second Amendment a threat.

She later took to Twitter and posted: “Rephrase: An elected gov’t official just labeled me and millions of others ‘domestic security threats.’ Wow.”

Noting that Ms. Rice’s language mirrors justifications of police-state persecutions, Ms. Loesch asked the congresswoman’s Twitter feed directly “will ur secret police wear a certain uniform? I want to know who we should look for when we are all taken into custody.”

When can I expect to be arrested, @RepKathleenRice ? Do you have enough secret security to take millions of members into custody. Honest Q.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 11, 2017

.@DLoesch to @RepKathleenRice: “If you find me that threatening, Congresswoman, come and arrest me.” #Tucker http://pic.twitter.com/azGgwQnLUX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 12, 2017

.@DLoesch calls on @RepKathleenRice to resign. https://t.co/mtWxDnU1eR http://pic.twitter.com/AFUNXwqMDG

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 12, 2017

Loesch has since called for Congresswoman Rice to resign given her unconscionable accusation that millions of American gun owners are akin to domestic terrorists.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, inside every Democrat is a totalitarian screaming to get out but it’s no longer easily concealed as party leaders have taken to calling for open rebellion, sanctioning violence through their silence and calling for the state to silence their political adversaries even if it means throwing them all into a gulag system like Stalin did to his enemies.

Chances are that if the historically infamous Soviet dictator was alive today, he would marvel at the fertile recruiting ground that is the Democratic Party.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” author Richard Dawkins argued that Muslims aren’t being oppressed by critics of Islam like himself, but that they are oppressed by Islam.

Host Bill Maher and Dawkins talked about their mutual dis-invitation from speeches at UC-Berkeley and a radio station canceling an interview with Dawkins.

Dawkins said that there is “an epidemic that’s going on of people running scared from open speech,” and terrified of things that might be offensive.

He added, “I think that this radio station and these universities, they are on our side. We’re on their side. Now, I was de-platformed specifically because of what I was alleged to have said about Islam. I think that the reason they did it was probably a laudable motive, they are on the side of oppressed minorities. They think that Muslims are an oppressed minority, oppressed by people like us. Actually, of course, Muslims are oppressed by Islam.” He later argued that Muslims who don’t oppress women or gay people are being persecuted by those who do and “That’s where the persecution comes from.”

Maher added that “criticism of a religion is not the same thing as bigotry.”

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