🇺🇸✡️⚡️- “Tucker Carlson believes that foreign powers have hijacked our government. That conspiratorial elite, immovable and undefeatable, other than through centralized power has taken control.” - Ben Shapiro.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- “Carlson, of course, reserves his chief foreign policy ire, unsurprisingly, for Israel. For which, he has a peculiar obsession. Unwilling to attack President Trump’s foreign policy on Israel directly, he has instead suggested nefarious Israeli influence in American government.” - Ben Shapiro.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The Venezuela War Powers resolution has failed in a vote of 211-213, with nine members not voting.

The bill was aimed at preventing an operation or strikes inside Venezuelan territory from taking place. With the resolution failing, it gives the President a much easier legal pathway to order strikes or an operation against Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Since President Trump’s announcement of a total blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, the Venezuelan government has ordered its Navy to begin escorting oil tankers from its ports out to safer waters to defend against seizures.

🇺🇸⚡️- “For years the United States operated as a “reverse Empire,” using its military to enrich foreign nations and foreign peoples, sacrificing our wealth, security and sovereignty for the sole benefit and advancement of those beyond our borders.

All we got in return were migrants.

No more.

America’s might will secure America’s rights. America’s military will defend America’s destiny. For Americans, first and always.” - Stephen Miller.

An ominous post that may be alluding to potential US military action in Venezuela.

🇺🇸⚡️- “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January.
I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.
Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you.
God bless America, and all those who defend Her.” - Dan Bongino, Deputy Director of the FBI.

🇪🇨🇻🇪⚡- Ecuador's National Assembly has approved a resolution to support the detention of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.

🇺🇸⚡- "Trump privately spoke with his former impeachment attorney Alan Dershowitz about potentially being president for a THIRD term.

Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇻🇪⚡- Two Venezuelan F-16s have gone airborne, operating over the coast of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Two U.S. Navy EA-18 Growler are also airborne off the coast of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "On Dec. 17, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. A total of four male narco-terrorists were killed, and no U.S. military forces were harmed," - SOUTHCOM.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's prime time address to begin in 10 minutes.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Around three hours ago, a squadron of F-22 Raptor fighter jets departed Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, being dragged by a KC-135 Stratotanker as they flew south.

Rerum Novarum can confirm that anywhere from 3-4 waves of F-22s departed Langley, flowing south.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has begun speaking.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess; and I begun fixing it." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Our border was open, and because of this, our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "This is what the Biden Administration allowed to happen to our country." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We have brought more positive change to Washington than any American President in history." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is gloating about his accomplishments; we won't transcribe all of this part.

🇺🇸⚡️- "In just a few months, we went from worst to best!" - President Trump on immigration.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Drugs brought in by ocean and sea are down by 90%." - President Trump.