As usual, Guardian has the best breaking news ticker on Venezuelagate, including details on the indictment of the nation’s kidnapped president.
Donald Trump doeasn’t seem too concerned about election theft anymore! Mediate: “President Donald Trump sidelined Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado [who was cheated out of the Venezuelan presidency] 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.”
HuffPo: Trump is ramping up military threats in the Western Hemisphere. “The president signaled openness to military action in Colombia and warned Mexico about getting ‘their act together.’”
AlterNet: Jens Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s Prime Minister, tells Trump “enough” after Trump issues threat of annexation.
Popular Information: The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting oligarch, fascistic investor Paul Singer.
AP: ” Interim Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez invited U.S. President Donald Trump “to collaborate” and said she seeks ‘respectful relations’ in a newly conciliatory message released Sunday night.”
IStar: US President Donald Trump issued a grim ‘ready to fall’ warning to Cuba.
HuffPo: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying they “literally lied to our face.”
NY Times: “Nicolás Maduro balked at a gilded exile. U.S. officials then saw a more pliant option in his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, known for stabilizing Venezuela’s economy.”
Steven Beschloss: “Vote in Donald Trump, surround him with sycophants, expect an insane circus. The lawlessness and chaos was so knowable, alas.”
HuffPo: “Some on Trump’s team believed Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro was mocking Trump with his dancing and “other displays of nonchalance,” leading the Trump administration to follow through with their threats that culminated in Maduro’s capture and transport to New York to face drug trafficking charges, according to the New York Times.”
Mediate: “The Prime Minister of Denmark issued a remarkable statement Sunday blasting President Donald Trump’s threats to take over its autonomous territory of Greenland, where the U.S. has a military base.”
DEVELOPING HARD…