PARIS — Here we go again. Another round of “maximum pressure” against the leader of a country that won’t bend the knee to Washington. And this time, they’re letting the American public think that they can actually play along for a cash prize. What could possibly go wrong?
As always with Washington publicity stunts, it seems legit before anyone actually reads the fine print. And who’s going to bother doing that when the Trump administration is offering a $50 million reward for “information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolas Maduro”?
The title “President of Venezuela” is totally absent from the State Department’s announcement, because Maduro “failed to present any evidence that he had prevailed” in last year’s presidential election, they say. Never mind that he currently oc