{"id":16886,"date":"2026-01-06T10:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=16886"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:16:02","slug":"venezuelagate-the-fallout-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/06\/venezuelagate-the-fallout-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelagate<\/strong><\/span>: The fallout continues\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story continues to dominate the news \u2013 despite other major stories having emerged. Here’s the 101:<\/p>\n

As usual, Guardian<\/a> has the best live news ticker on the continuing mess, leading with the UN human rights office saying it is “clear” the US raid on Venezuela “undermined a fundamental principle of international law”. Anadolu Ajansi News<\/a> takes a deep dive into that development. <\/p>\n

It looks like Venezuela may be just the start: “Trump team puts a target on Cuba, with threats and oil blockade<\/a>“. Stephen Miller is ramping up Trump threats to take over Greenland<\/a>. Thankfully, Congress has started to take Trump\u2019s interest in Greenland more seriously<\/a>. And Colombia’s president is pushing back against Trump’s threats against his nation.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Capitol Hill<\/a>, “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) are forcing a vote on a War Powers Resolution that aims to bar President Donald Trump from taking more military action in Venezuela without Congress\u2019 approval.”<\/p>\n

NBC exposes the latest dodge to line the oil-igarch’s pockets: Trump says the U.S. government may reimburse oil companies for rebuilding Venezuela’s infrastructure.<\/a> Naturally, Trump has left his own party’s legislators in the dark on any “plan” to run Venezuela.<\/a><\/p>\n

The NY Times<\/em> reports that “US intelligence suggested Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, Venezuela\u2019s opposition leader, would struggle to lead the government. But her relationship with Trump officials had been souring for months<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And, naturally, Trump has to run his mouth – and this morning, he may have blown up th Maduro case in a private chat with Morning Joe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NY Times<\/a>: Venezuela Braces for Economic Collapse From U.S. Blockade<\/p>\n

NBC: Trump says the U.S. isn’t at war with Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n

Guardian<\/em>: Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment<\/a><\/p>\n

Your liberal media – not! Sofia Tesfaye looks at the mass media\u2019s blind spot on Trump\u2019s Venezuela escalation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ICYMI: Watch a woman get arrested mid-interview after protesting against Trump\u2019s Venezuela strike.<\/a>
\nMedia Matters<\/a><\/em>: “MAGA media link Trump’s overthrow of Maduro to 2020 election conspiracy theories”<\/p>\n

And for some comic relief: Trump was hit with another community note after making a false claim about Greenland<\/a> during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One while returning to the White House following a 16-day stay at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest on Trump’s most massive fustercluck yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16886"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16919,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions\/16919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}