Trump to meet with Venezuela’s opposition leader after praising ‘terrific’ Maduro loyalist
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President Trump will meet Venezuela opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado at the White House Thursday, after expressing doubts about her leadership.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
"I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader," Trump told reporters on Jan. 3. "She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman, but she doesn't have the respect."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the administration chose not to support Machado because the U.S. didn’t want to make similar mistakes to the ones it’s previously made in the Middle East in Latin America, although he said he had "tremendous admiration" for Machado.
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