“They fired everyone and ended ISIS”

“If you ever remember a place called Iraq where everyone was fired… The police, the generals, they were all fired and they ended up being ISIS,” Trump said when asked why he backs Rodriguez and not Maria Corina Machado.

“Yesterday I had a great meeting with someone I respect a lot, and she obviously also respects me and our country, and she gave me her Nobel Prize. I had never met her beforeand I was very impressed. “She is a great woman,” Trump told reporters upon leaving the White House.

As for the Nobel Prize medal that Machado herself presented to the president on Thursday as a sign of “gratitude,” Trump said it was a “very kind gesture.”

“He told me: ‘You have put an end to eight wars and No one in history deserves this award more than you.‘. And I thought it was a very nice gesture. I think she is a great woman and we will talk again,” added the Republican leader.

The president has shown interest on numerous occasions in the Nobel Peace Prize, and often insists that he has put an end to several international conflicts and that this award should be awarded according to the number of wars resolved.

Trump and Machado had lunch at the White House on Thursday, their first meeting, which came after the US military operation that resulted in the capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3.

No details of the conversation between the two have emerged, but the opposition leader has stated that the American president is committed with his cause.

Until now, the US Administration has excluded Machado from the transition process in Venezuela for the moment, considering that he does not now have enough support to assume power and has chosen to work with the Government of the interim president, Delcy Rodriguezwho according to Trump is under his tutelage and has complied with “all of his demands.”

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