Thursday, December 04, 2025

Maduro asked Trump for $200 million to leave Venezuela

Venezuela's president asked to keep $200m of his private wealth, amnesty for his officials and safe harbour in a friendly country as part of a deal with Donald Trump to step down and flee, sources said.

Those familiar with a phone call between the two leaders told The Telegraph that the plan fell apart owing to Nicolas Maduro's demands for a blanket amnesty for as many as 100 top officials.

During the 15-minute call, the two leaders also disagreed on how to set up a transitional government and on the location Mr Maduro would flee to from Venezuela.

Posted by OCUser at 04:47 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink

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One AI snapshot:

"The US spent an estimated $9.65 to $12.07 billion on military operations in Yemen, Iran, and the wider region in support of Israel's offensive wars during the two-year period ending in 2025."

Nicolas Maduro wants to keep his pelf to leave and we'll save American taxpayer money and US and Venezuelan lives?

And Dummkopf Trumpf said no?

The Shah of Iran, Baby Doc Duvalier, and Nicaraguan El Jefe Anastasio Somoza Garca also left their countries in disgrace with tons of loot.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 05:37 PM

I can't imagine why Trump, the pardoner of other massive drug dealers, didn't leap on this deal.

No, I really can imagine. He wants war, glorious war to feed his gluttonous ego and to distract from Epstein and the economy.

Someone who posts here is going to lose someone in Trump's war of choice.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 05:51 PM

Someone who posts here is going to lose someone in Trumpf's war of choice.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-04 05:51 PM | Reply | Flag: We hope not

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 05:59 PM

The great dealmaker sitting in the half-demolished White House spent a grand total of 15 minutes on the telephone with Nicolas Maduro and failed to avert an expensive war that will take lives from both countries, cause environmental damage, and possibly get innocent American civilians killed in South America in retribution attacks against the "gringos." An American tourist was already found dead in Trinidad and Tobago.

Meanwhile Dummkopf Trumpf dragged out the brutal Russian war on Ukraine for eleven months with phony negotiators on behalf of Vladimir Putin, making a dupe out of retired US Army General Keith Kellogg who acted in earnest to save lives to reach some sort of concord between Ukraine and Russia. And the insidious Trumpf junta is trying to make money for themselves in the peace process.

MAGA supporters trust and believe their Dear Leader?



#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-04 06:18 PM

Pres Maduro is not good. I get that.

But I still ask, what is the purpose -- the end goal, of Pres Trump's current actions in the area?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-04 06:19 PM

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