It Was Biden, Not Trump that Indicted Maduro and Offered a $25 Million Reward

Outgoing NYC Mayor Eric Adams posted the following:

“On January 10, 2025, the Biden-Harris administration put a $25 million bounty on Nicolás Maduro for information leading to his arrest or conviction. Public safety is not a political game.

“You do not label someone a narco-dictator one year and then pretend he is no longer a threat the next simply because a different president is in office. That is cynical and irresponsible.

“Maduro’s drugs have killed thousands of Americans and continue to endanger our children. Imagine being the parents of 2-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici, who died from fentanyl poisoning in a Bronx daycare, and watching this political theater.

“America is safer today because Maduro is no longer in power. Welcome to New York, Nicolás,” said Adams.

In 2020, Maduro was inditced on drug and weapons charges. That indictment was updated last week, incuding four new counts, including narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine-guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine-guns and destructive devices.

Based on both indictments, Maduor was a fugitive of American justice.

Accusations that Maduro should not have been arrested by the US because he was a sitting head of state, are deceptive because Maduro stole the Presidential election of 2024.

“The presidential election in Venezuela took place on 28 July 2024. It ended with proven fraud: Chavista incumbent Nicolás Maduro allegedly won with 51.95 per cent of the votes cast compared to 43.18 per cent for the opposition candidate, Edmundo González. In a brilliantly prepared process, supported by volunteers in 58,000 volunteer groups, the clever opposition obtained copies of around 85 per cent of the election files (Spanish: ‘actas de escrutinio’), the results from over 30,000 polling stations in the country, digitised them on election night and calculated the true result as an estimate from this huge sample: around 67 per cent for González and just 30 per cent for Maduro, proving clear electoral fraud by the Maduro regime!

“The impending disaster for Maduro had already been foreshadowed months before the election. The extremely popular, charismatic María Corina Machado of the Vente Venezuela party, a member of Liberal International, was denied the presidential candidacy by the courts despite huge success in the opposition primaries. Only this led to the largely unknown Edmundo González running with the full support of the united opposition – in effect as a kind of proxy for Machado,” writes the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

Congressman Mike Lawler posted, “Early this morning, our brave American soldiers, sailors, and airmen executed one of the most stunning military operations of this century. The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is an important step toward ending the deadly flow of drugs into the United States and ensuring peace and prosperity for all Venezuelans.

“It is also a stark reminder to terrorists, dictators, and drug lords across the world that there is no safe harbor. This is what the doctrine of peace through strength looks like, and I am thankful for President Trump’s decisive move to strike at the heart of the narco-terror state and illegal drug trade that have been ravaging our hemisphere for decades. With the arrest and prosecution of Nicolás Maduro, a new dawn is upon us,” said Lawler.

Congressman George Latimer posted,

“Today, the President announced his unilateral military action – circumventing congressional authorization – to carry out what he declares is a war. The Constitution establishes three co-equal branches of government for a reason: to ensure a check and balance that prevents one entity from dictating policy for the whole country. As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I heard details about this military action at the same time everyone else did. The fact that the Republican leadership in the House is not incensed over the President’s unilateral act of war screams volumes about their lack of fitness to lead both Congress and our nation. This action does not keep us “safe” from drugs. If that was our top reason, then why did the President pardon the convicted drug trafficker who was President of Honduras who dumped tons of drugs into American homes?

“This action weakens us with allies around the globe. What moral standing do we lean on now to oppose Russia’s intervention in Ukraine or China’s likely takeover of Taiwan, when we do the same thing for our reasons?  Maduro is a bad guy, who held on to power illegally despite losing the election. But Trump has aligned us with other dictators – if they have friendly relations with Trump. In the President’s address this afternoon, he admitted the real reason for this illegal military action – control of Venezuela’s oil. That’s why the President did nothing to inform the Congress since we would ask these questions before any action was taken. 

“Reasonable people can and should discuss what the best strategy moving forward should be, but temporarily taking over Venezuela should not be one of those strategies.  The administration must immediately brief Congress on their plan for stability in Venezuela, their legal justification for these actions, and what America’s role will be in all of this, and Congress must then act appropriately according to our nation’s laws and the constitution,” said Latimer.