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As tensions between the United States and Venezuela escalate, a national security and foreign policy expert revealed what it would take for the Trump administration to deploy American boots on the ground.

Victoria Coates, former Trump national security advisor and vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, told Fox News Digital during an interview that while deploying troops inside Venezuela is unlikely at this time, it remains “possible.”

“The president has fairly sweeping authorities under Article II of the Constitution to defend the American people from what he has defined as a real and present danger in the form of the drug cartels coming up from Venezuela

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