Trump doubles huge reward for Venezuelan president | Political News

President Donald Trump has elevated the reward money for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, after accusing the person of being one of the world’s largest narcotics traffickers.

Trump also accused Maduro of working with varied drug cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine. Attorney General Pam Bondi made the announcement in a video on Thursday.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes,” said Bondi. NBC reported that Maduro was indicted in a Manhattan federal court in 2020 during President Trump’s first time period in workplace, along with a number of close allies.

Both Maduro and his friends have been introduced up on federal costs of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine. At the time of the indictment, the reward main to his seize was a whopping $15 million. The quantity was later raised by former President Joe Biden to $25 million — the speed coincidentally provided by the U.S. for the seize of Osama bin Laden following the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults.

However, despite the huge quantity of money, Maduro managed to defy the U.S., the European Union, and a number of Latin American governments, which slammed his 2024 reelection as a sham and even acknowledged Maduro’s opponent as the official chief. Reports show that the Venezuelan authorities was not a fan of Trump upping the reward money.

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“Pamela Bondi’s pathetic reward is the most ridiculous smokescreen we’ve ever seen,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil said on his Telegram channel. “While we’re dismantling the terrorist plots orchestrated from her country, this woman is coming out with a media circus to please the defeated far right in Venezuela.”

“It doesn’t surprise us, coming from who she comes from,” Gil added. “The same one who promised a nonexistent ‘secret list’ of (Jeffrey) Epstein and who wallows in scandals over political favors.”

“It doesn’t surprise us, coming from who she comes from,” Gil added. “The same one who promised a nonexistent ‘secret list’ of (Jeffrey) Epstein and who wallows in scandals over political favors.”

It ought to be famous that President Trump has always denied any wrongdoing relating to the Epstein case, has not been accused of any crimes by law enforcement and has never been recognized as the subject of any investigation. The minister described Bondi’s announcement as a “show” and “a joke,” as properly as “a desperate distraction from his own misery.”

Gil added that the dignity of the Venezuelan homeland “is not for sale.” It was reported last month that President Trump had struck a deal with Venezuela for the secure return of 10 Americans imprisoned in Caracas, the administration would return scores of immigrants who have been deported to El Salvador back to their home nation.