Trump immediately sets about projecting his 2020 election lies onto his Venezuelan captive
...successive presidents (Obama and Trump) made a lot of noise and effort claiming Maduro threatened the U.S., despite the fact that BOTH of those administrations once recognized Maduro as Venezuela's legitimate leader.
Over 80% of Americans disagree that something in Venezuela threatens them, but that hasn't stopped Trump from exploiting those State Dept. derived findings about Maduro in his effort to portray Venezuela and Venezuelans as evil incarnate.
But, why? Could it have something to do with the Sydney Powell's looney, disproved claims that Venezuela was deleting Trump votes in Dominion voting machines?
Or, is it just about Trump's megalomania, or some fealty or benefit he thinks he's going to get by allowing oil companies to run rampant in Venezuela behind his military coup plan?
Whatever it is it isn't about an indictment from his corrupt and compromised DOJ which abducted more than 200 immigrants en masse from the U.S. shackled, their hair shaved off, to one of El Salvador's most infamous mega prisons.
Surprise all around today, I'm sure, when Trump revived debunked claims about Venezuela helping steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden, trying as he might to sell his attempted theft of Venezuelan oil as something more than the drug charges against Maduro which his DOJ invented to embellish what had been primarily political concerns, not withstanding the legal arguments in that regard about Venezuela's contested election.
Trump shared several posts on Truth Social pushing claims that voting machines helped “flip” votes from Trump to Biden in the 2020 election, which there is no credible evidence to support.
Trump allies pushed claims in 2020 that tied voting machine companies to election fraud and involved Venezuela, claiming companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic had initially been created to rig elections in Venezuela in favor of former leader Hugo Chavez, and employed the same tactics to help Biden win.
Those claims formed the basis of numerous defamation lawsuits that Dominion and Smartmatic filed against Trump allies and right-leaning media networks in the wake of the 2020 election, leading to court rulings declaring the fraud theory was false and Fox News paying a historic $787.5 million to settle with Dominion (Newsmax and One America News also settled).
Trump has previously posted in support of the fraud theory as his administration ramped up its opposition to Maduro’s regime in recent months, and The Guardian reported in November the Justice Department was interviewing people who tied Venezuela to claims of 2020 election fraud.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/trump-pushes-conspiracy-that-venezuela-helped-biden-win-after-maduro-s-capture/ar-AA1TCiEI
...WHATEVER people may believe about the drug charges in the indictment the Trump DOJ brought against Maduro, whatever they may feel about past administration support for 'bounties' or anything related to Maduro and the Venezuelan election, this abduction and further destabilizing coup attempt by the Trump regime is an insidiously banal and mindnumbingly arrogant extension of the 2020 election fraud the maga majority on the Supreme Court (having openly expressed skepticism about the election fraud charges) allowed Trump to dodge.
I mean, even if you want to make an obtuse point about Maduro being some bad guy who allegedly sells drugs to Americans, rather than debate the arcane details of Venezuelan election law, you'd still be forced to ride along with Trump as he takes you on a magical conspiracy tour that still insists he won the 2020 election.
Aside from his avarice and greed for Venezuelan oil, and his megalomanic desire to be king of the Americas, there's still the pesky treason he engaged in that needs muddling in the minds of Americans.
In for a penny supporting this political prosecution because you think Maduro is a bad man who sells drugs to Americans; in for a pound of Trump conspiracy-mongering in pursuit of exoneration for his election crimes.
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