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Rhiannon12866

(250,433 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:31 AM Monday

Maduro to make first court appearance in New York - Way Too Early - MS NOW



Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores are expected to make their first court appearances in New York City, two days after the U.S. captured them in a surprise attack. - Aired on 01/05/2026.
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Walleye

(43,845 posts)
1. Why is Maduro getting due process in American courts, when the people snatched off our streets weren't afforded that?
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:54 AM
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LiberalArkie

(19,326 posts)
2. Because they need to hurry it up and get a conviction so that Maduro can pay Trump for a pardon.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 08:46 AM
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Escurumbele

(4,023 posts)
3. Its all about the show, the entire thing has been a show aided in cahoots by those in the regime who will
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 08:56 AM
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gladly work with trump to continue pilfering Venezuela. Venezuelans do not understand that Maduro does not represent the end of the regime, the people most responsible for the chaos that Venezuela has become are still there and will work with trump, they are even passing a long text to Venezuelans telling them that the best solution is to work with the thugs until Democracy can be restored, and like sheep, Venezuelans are believing the BS, and accepting that trump threw the duly elected people who received almost 90% of the votes under the bus and the regime stole keeping Maduro in the chair. trump and Rubio want to place a puppet on the presidency to obey orders from them.

It is a show, and I feel sorry for Venezuelans who, despite what everyone knows about the convict, pedophile, rapist, fraud, etc., they keep placing their hopes on the biggest con the World has produced.

People need to understand that Maduro was the prize for trump to boast about being "tough on drugs", but this has nothing to do with drugs, it has to do with the show, trump pretending to be a "liberator" (I am sure he will demand that a statue of him be placed in Caracas), oil, Venezuelan resources, and it is a plan to divide the World between trump, Putin, and others.

Also to understand is that of all the thugs and criminals in Venezuela's regime, Maduro was a puppet, the face of the regime, and the least evil of all, evil nonetheless but, the real evil architects are still in Venezuela, although one of them in Russia, the VP, who trump wants her to assume the presidency. She and her family are as evil as it gets, their father made his fortune by kidnapping a USA businessman from 1976 to 1979 when he got paid millions to release him.

So why show Maduro around New York? because like an athlete who just won a big tournament, he must show the trophy to the World, and New York is a perfect stage, although most athletes are humble, but we are talking about trump.

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