Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 195
Shake Up
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today.”
— A person close to the White House, quoted by the Washington Post, saying Trump is refusing to support Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
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