Democrat Graham Platner Urges Americans To Resist Trump’s ‘Disgusting’ Capture Of Maduro, ‘Gangsterism’

Far-left Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is urging Americans to protest the capture of Venezuelan socialist dictator and alleged narco-terrorist Nicolás Maduro, which he characterized as “immoral” and “utterly disgusting.”

Platner, a Bernie Sanders-backed oyster farmer and veteran running to unseat Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins in November’s midterm elections, has emerged as one of the sharpest critics of the Trump administration’s overnight raid in Caracas Saturday that resulted in the seizure of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The Maine Democrat has called on Americans to “stop” the Trump administration from using additional force against Venezuela and argued the overnight raid was a “failure” despite no American casualties during the military operation.

“The government of the United States has illegally invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader,” Platner said in a statement accompanying a two-minute video that has racked up half a million views on X. “We need to all turn out in opposition to this egregious failure of our government, and stop it.”

Platner’s video omitted the fact that Maduro was a brutal dictator who persecuted his opponents and made Venezuela into a safe haven for trafficking drugs throughout Latin America and into the United States. Federal prosecutors allege Maduro oversaw the shipment of “thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States.”

The Maine Democrat’s social media commentary also neglected any mention of the U.S. military personnel who carried out the operation. He also did not speak about the approximately