Nicolás Maduro was plucked out of Caracas, but the more shocking news was that the White House plans to run Venezuela.
– Trump made no mention of wanting to spread democracy or allowing Venezuela’s opposition, which the United States has recognized as the legitimate winners of 2024’s election, to take power.
-Trump, however, said today at Mar-a-Lago that Machado couldn’t govern the country, because she doesn’t have “the support or the respect” of the Venezuelan people.
-Trump also did not address questions about the implications of removing a sitting president for Russian President Vladimir Putin as he seeks to control Ukraine, or for China’s Xi Jinping as he sizes up the possibility of taking Taiwan.
-“If China declared Taiwan a rogue province, could they go after its leaders?” Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, asked us in an interview. “If Russia declares Zelensky a criminal, could Putin extract him from Ukraine and that’d be okay?”