The claims follow Trump’s public dismissal of Machado as a viable interim leader over the weekend following the capture of the country’s former leader Maduro.
President Donald Trump sidelined Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado as an interim replacement to Nicolás Maduro because she committed the “ultimate sin” of accepting the Nobel Peace Prize instead of demanding it be given to him, according to the claims of White House insiders.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” the source said.
When given the award by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in October, Machado dedicated the prize to Trump,
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