Mucho que Decir guest criticizes Trump for not making his “repressive apparatus” more “functional and effective”
Manny Mulet: “If there is one thing I believe the Trump administration lacks, it is effectiveness from a judicial and law enforcement standpoint”
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Mucho que Decir guest Manny Mulet criticizes Trump for not making his "repressive apparatus" more "functional and effective"
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From the January 15, 2026, edition of La Nueva Poderosa's Mucho que Decir
JORGE DÍAZ-DÍAZ (HOST): Speaking of President Trump, he warned today that he would invoke the Insurrection Act if people, these paid protesters in Minnesota, particularly in Minneapolis, do not comply with the law and continue to attack federal agents. ... This warning comes after all the altercations there have been with ICE agents and what is happening right now. Your perspective on this, because look, after, this message is for the Democrats: don't complain. Don't call him a dictator if the president invokes the Insurrection Act. I don't know what you think.
MANNY MULET (LA NUEVA PODEROSA HOST): I criticize Trump for not making his repressive apparatus more functional and more effective. If there's one thing I think the Trump administration lacks, it's effectiveness from a judicial standpoint, from a law enforcement standpoint, from a standpoint. — Look, Trump tells the Iranians: if you keep killing, I'm going to do something to you, and it looks like the executions were suspended yesterday. Do you understand? He tells the Venezuelans, if you don't do business, we're going to remove Maduro, and he goes and removes Maduro, and when Trump speaks, the world stops, but here in the United States, he tells the Democrats anything, and since there is no action from the Department of Justice and there are no consequences, these people act with impunity. What the governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, and the attorney general of Minnesota are doing is an act of sedition.
DÍAZ-DÍAZ: Yes.
MULET: Or insurrection. So, hopefully he'll make it happen. There has to be a lesson learned, because part of the courage these people have to carry out these acts against federal officials in this country is because there are no consequences.