Kat Timpf, a libertarian commentator and regular panelist on Fox News, is speaking out after saying she received “very brutal personal attacks” following her take on the recent U.S. military operation in Venezuela.
Trump announced early Saturday that the United States conducted a “large scale” strike in Caracas, where leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by U.S. forces and extracted to New York. They pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism conspiracy, among other charges unsealed by the Justice Department, during their first appearance in an American courtroom on Monday.
During an appearance on “Gutfeld!” on Monday, Timpf acknowledged that some may be experiencing “whiplash” after President Donald Trump has repeatedly railed against “U.S.-led regime change war.”
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld quickly questioned her statement, pointing to how current Venezuelan leadership is still in place with the swearing in of Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as the interim president. Timpf then offered a longer explanation.
“Let me get this straight: We go to a country, we capture their leader, we bomb it and then we say we run this country now — and that’s not war,“ Timpf said, referring to how Trump has continued to claim the United States will “run” and is “in charge” of Venezuela.
“But when they send cocaine over here, that people are willingly snorting — that is war?” she continued. “That doesn’t make any sense.”
In a post on X minutes later, Timpf said she had began receiving backlash, going on to tear into criticism from whom she described as “many of the same people who had claimed to share this view with me as recently as a few months ago.” A handful of accounts she responded to have been suspended.
“I thought it might be bad, but it’s worse,” she added.
She also addressed the pushback to her comments early Tuesday.
“I would like to send a sincere thank you to anyone who has ever been able to think of me as a human being,” she wrote in a post.
During an interview with NBC News, Trump on Monday directly said the United States is not at war with Venezuela.
“We’re at war with people that sell drugs,” Trump said. “We’re at war with people that empty their prisons into our country and empty their drug addicts and empty their mental institutions into our country.”
The president also expressed confidence that his base will continue to support him after he ran on an “America First” platform.
“MAGA loves it,” Trump said. “MAGA loves what I’m doing. MAGA loves everything I do. MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too.”
