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Right-wing media figures Laura Loomer and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) were among members of the press who sat for a rare briefing with Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson on Tuesday.

Gaetz, the lawmaker once floated for Attorney General and now a host for the pro-Trump media outlet One America News Network, was called on early during the briefing and asked Wilson what role the U.S. military could play in Venezuela , if the South American country’s leader Nicolas Maduro flees the country amid a pressure campaign from the Trump administration over alleged drug trafficking.

“The department has a contingency plan f

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