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"I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!"

-María Corina Machado 9:34 AM · Oct 10, 2025



This is, as yet, being reported in contradictory ways when I went looking to see if it was correct so here’s the link to where she appears to do this, assuming the post is authentic (no reason to believe otherwise but these days…)

https://x.com/MariaCorinaYA/status/1976642376119549990


"Political expediency makes for strange bedfellows, news at 11!"

I'm not even sure I'm against everything Trump is up to (it's unclear to me); I just don't like the autocratic moves: it's unamerican, and bad for democracy. It's setting a standard & an allowable behavior that could be exploited by bad people.




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