Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued against the intelligence community’s assessment on Sunday, stating that the terrorist-designated Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, is a proxy of Nicolás Maduro’s government.

The intelligence community are “wrong,” Rubio told “Face the Nation’s” Margaret Brennan.

“In fact, the FBI agrees with me that they are. We, the FBI, agrees that not only is Tren de Aragua exported by the Venezuelan regime, but in fact, if you go back and see a Tren de Aragua member, all the evidence is there, and it’s growing every day, was actually contracted to murder an opposition member, I believe, in Chile a few months ago.

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