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<\/p>\nIt Was Biden, Not Trump that Indicted Maduro and Offered a $25 Million Reward<\/p>\n
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Outgoing NYC Mayor Eric Adams posted the following: <\/p>\n
\u201cOn January 10, 2025, the Biden-Harris administration put a $25 million bounty on Nicol\u00e1s Maduro for information leading to his arrest or conviction. Public safety is not a political game.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaduro\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica is safer today because Maduro is no longer in power. Welcome to New York, Nicol\u00e1s,\u201d said Adams.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Based on both indictments, Maduor was a fugitive of American justice. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe presidential election in Venezuela took place on 28 July 2024. It ended with proven fraud: Chavista incumbent Nicol\u00e1s Maduro allegedly won with\u00a051.95 per cent of the votes cast compared<\/a>\u00a0to 43.18 per cent for the opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez.\u00a0In 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: \u2018actas de escrutinio\u2019), 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:\u00a0around 67 per cent for Gonz\u00e1lez and just 30 per cent for Maduro<\/a>, proving clear electoral fraud by the Maduro regime!<\/p>\n \u201cThe impending disaster for Maduro had already been foreshadowed months before the election. The extremely popular, charismatic Mar\u00eda 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 Gonz\u00e1lez running with the full support of the united opposition \u2013 in effect as a kind of proxy for Machado,\u201d writes the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.<\/p>\n Congressman Mike Lawler posted, \u201cEarly 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 Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is an important step toward ending the deadly flow of drugs into the United States and ensuring peace and prosperity for all Venezuelans.<\/p>\n \u201cIt 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\u2019s 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 Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, a new dawn is upon us,\u201d said Lawler. <\/p>\n Congressman George Latimer posted, <\/p>\n \u201cToday, the President announced his unilateral military action \u2013 circumventing congressional authorization \u2013 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\u2019s unilateral act of war screams volumes about their lack of fitness to lead both Congress and our nation. This action does not keep us \u201csafe\u201d 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? <\/p>\n \u201cThis action weakens us with allies around the globe. What moral standing do we lean on now to oppose Russia\u2019s intervention in Ukraine or China\u2019s likely takeover of Taiwan, when we do the same thing for our reasons?\u00a0 Maduro is a bad guy, who held on to power illegally despite losing the election. But Trump has aligned us with other dictators \u2013 if they have friendly relations with Trump. In the President\u2019s address this afternoon, he admitted the real reason for this illegal military action \u2013 control of Venezuela\u2019s oil. That\u2019s why the President did nothing to inform the Congress since we would ask these questions before any action was taken.\u00a0 <\/p>\n \u201cReasonable 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.\u00a0 The administration must immediately brief Congress on their plan for stability in Venezuela, their legal justification for these actions, and what America\u2019s role will be in all of this, and Congress must then act appropriately according to our nation\u2019s laws and the constitution,\u201d said Latimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It Was Biden, Not Trump that Indicted Maduro and Offered a $25 Million Reward Outgoing NYC Mayor Eric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-90504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}