Kat Timpf reacted to what she called “very brutal personal attacks” over her stance on the Venezuela situation.
She joined comedian Greg Gutfeld to discuss the reaction to the capture of Nicolas Maduro and the backlash the president has received as a result of the action. The contributor pointed out that the message being sent by the capture could conflict with his history of being vocal against regime-change wars, but Gutfeld disagreed. The pair had a respectful back-and-forth on the subject, with both expressing their differing views.
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“I mean, you have to see how some people might be feeling a little bit of whiplash here, given that Trump spent 10 years railing against U.S.-led regime change war,” Timpf said. “His own director of intelligence, as recently as two months ago, was railing against regime change war, and then he does one. So…”
“Why is this a regime change? The regime is still there, as far as I know, the vice president,” Gutfeld responded.
“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. But when they send cocaine over here that people are willingly snorting, that is war?” she asked.
“I think, uh, I think that-” Gutfeld stammered.
“That doesn’t make any sense,” Timpf added.
“It does to me in the sense that, if this guy is committing crimes against the United States, you lawfully go and get him, he gets his due process here. The regime is still the same, the VP is there. Remember, he was not elected legitimately, so he was never considered the leader of Venezuela by anybody except for himself,” the host pointed out. “So I think, you know, difference of opinion but he was not considered a legitimate leader. He had committed crimes against the country. He’s going to get his due process. He may be found not guilty. Who knows?”
“We went in, took him, bombed the country and said we are in control. That’s regime change war,” Timpf put her foot down. “That’s like a guy being like ‘I did bang all these other girls behind your back, but I did not cheat.’ Call it what you want, but it is what it is.”
Shortly after this exchange, Timpf took to X to call out the “brutal” backlash she’d received from her comments, maintaining that this has always been her stance on US foreign policy.
Receiving some very brutal personal attacks for having the same opinion on foreign policy as I’ve had my entire career — and from many of the same people who had claimed to share this view with me as recently as a few months ago. I thought it might be bad, but it’s worse.
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) January 6, 2026
“Receiving some very brutal personal attacks for having the same opinion on foreign policy as I’ve had my entire career — and from many of the same people who had claimed to share this view with me as recently as a few months ago. I thought it might be bad, but it’s worse,” she wrote.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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