Investigative journalist Lara Logan argued that a range of domestic and international issues are interconnected, pointing to Venezuela, election integrity concerns, illegal immigration, organized crime, and political movements she believes are influencing events in the United States.

Logan said the Trump administration took action against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro because of what she described as Venezuela’s involvement in the 2020 election.

“With all due respect, I say this. The Trump administration went after Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela because they rightly knew they had worked for 12 years on an indictment on Nicholas Maduro,” Logan said.

She further alleged that Venezuela played a direct role in the 2020 election and claimed other foreign actors were involved.

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“Right, Venezuela was involved directly involved in the theft of the 2020 election. They stole that election from President Trump working with Iran, working with the CCP, working with others,” Logan said.

Logan claimed that a senior Venezuelan official currently in prison provided information about those events.

“We know a lot of the details because there is a Venezuelan, very senior Venezuelan sitting in prison who was actually a witness, an eyewitness to the theft,” Logan said.

According to Logan, the administration focused on Maduro but did not pursue other members of his government whom she believes were involved.

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“But what President Trump's administration did not do is they did not go after all the other people in Maduro's administration who were involved in the theft of the 2020 election,” Logan said.

Logan specifically referenced Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez, claiming they played a broader role in election-related activities around the world.

“Delci Rodriguez and her brother, Jorge Rodriguez, who presided over the theft of the 2020 election, are 100% complicit in the theft of elections in 72 countries worldwide,” Logan said.

She also alleged that Venezuelan criminal organizations exert influence beyond their own borders.

“You want to know why President Trump doesn't get the support that he needs from a country like Spain? Because the cartel in Venezuela, the cartel that runs the country, Cartel de la Souls, they selected the Spanish Prime Minister,” Logan said.

Logan argued that multiple political and criminal organizations operate together and should not be viewed as separate threats.

“Why does America get all this heat all over the world? Because the globalist Marxist Islamist alliance that that has these cartels as their army, they all work together, so we don't face one enemy,” Logan said.

Turning to California, Logan connected local political controversies to broader national and international concerns.

“The election in LA, the corruption there, the corruption in the system, this isn't about one enemy, this is about all of America's enemies working together,” Logan said.

She also criticized the impact of illegal immigration on representation and the justice system.

“And all of those illegal immigrants in that sanctuary state of California, who not only distort California's representation in the house, but who also get their own jury, so they're involved in the criminal justice system,” Logan said.

Logan argued that the ultimate goal of these forces is to weaken both individual and national sovereignty.

“I mean, all of these people, what they're doing is they are diminishing citizenship, they want to take your individual sovereignty and your national sovereignty, and they want to make it mean nothing,” Logan said.

She also claimed violent criminal organizations from Venezuela have been imported into the United States.

“They imported the most violent people from Venezuela's prisons,” Logan said.

Referring to Tren de Aragua, Logan described the group as a violent organization created through prison recruitment.

“They literally, they were created by going into Venezuela's prisons and recruiting the most violent people and creating this organization that is a paramilitary force. It is a violent, armed, trained paramilitary force that was infiltrated into our towns and cities,” Logan said.

Logan further claimed that members of the group have been involved in demonstrations surrounding immigration enforcement.

“And these are the people that are in front of the ICE detention centers and helping to fuel the protests, so you have them, they fight on every single front. Elections is one front, it's only one,” Logan said.

She concluded by criticizing Marxism and arguing that California serves as a testing ground for ideas that later spread nationwide.

“And the idea that you could have a Marxist, when Marxism has forced out 8 million Venezuelans, has failed people worldwide, has been responsible for the death of how many people worldwide, and we are still glorifying it and glamorizing it,” Logan said.

“So these things are tied together, and you can't fight on one front, you have to fight on every front, and you can't pretend that LA is just a city in the West, on the West Coast. No, what happens in the state of California is actually tested there, and then it's proliferated all over the country,” Logan said.

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