Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams just blasted former Vice President Kamala Harris over her response to the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
In a stunning turn of events, U.S. troops executed a daring early morning mission in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, capturing Maduro, while Harris criticized the operation and Adams fired back with a sharp rebuke.
For American parents, especially those who’ve lost loved ones to the opioid crisis, this story cuts deep with the tragic reminder of 2-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici, who died from fentanyl poisoning at a Bronx daycare where drugs were stored near children’s playmats—a health catastrophe linked to the very narco-networks Maduro is accused of running.
Let’s rewind: the first Trump administration set a $15 million bounty on Maduro, which the Biden-Harris team bumped to $25 million on January 10, 2025, for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
The current Trump administration doubled down, raising it to $50 million before U.S. forces finally nabbed him in Caracas.
Now, Maduro faces a date in the Southern District of New York court on Monday, charged with narcoterrorism, drug, and weapons offenses that conservatives argue have long poisoned American streets.
On Saturday evening, Harris issued a statement blasting President Donald Trump’s military move as reckless and driven by ulterior motives.
“This is not about drugs or democracy. It is about oil and Donald Trump’s desire to play the regional strongman,” Harris declared, per her official release.
With all due respect to the former VP, this sounds like a tired progressive talking point—dismissing a dictator’s capture as an oil grab ignores the real blood on Maduro’s hands and the drugs flooding our communities.
By Sunday morning, Eric Adams had heard enough, unleashing a pointed counter to Harris’s stance.
“You do not label someone a narco-dictator one year and then pretend he is no longer a threat the next simply because a different president is in office. That is cynical and irresponsible,” Adams said, as reported from his public response.
Adams nails it—flip-flopping on a figure like Maduro, whose regime has been tied to countless American deaths via the drug trade, isn’t leadership; it’s political theater at its worst.
Adams didn’t stop there, invoking the heartbreaking case of young Nicholas Feliz Dominici, whose death at a fentanyl-laced daycare—run by Grei Mendez, who pleaded guilty to federal charges—underscores the human toll of narco-trafficking.
Conservatives have long argued that leaders like Maduro fuel this deadly pipeline, and turning a blind eye for partisan reasons betrays every family mourning a loved one lost to addiction.
While Harris may decry the mission as unwise, many on the right see Maduro’s capture as a long-overdue win for public safety, and Adams’s words ring true: playing politics with a dictator’s reckoning is a dangerous game.
