Biden (or his ventriloquist) bashes Trump for willingness to meet with Venezuela's Maduro
Mark Crispin Miller
Biden Bashes Trump’s Willingness to Meet with Venezuela’s Maduro
The White House insisted that Trump “has not lost confidence” in opposition leader Guaido.
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Santiago de Chile, June 22, 2020 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden lashed out at Donald Trump after the US president said he would consider meeting his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro.
“Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro. As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy,” Biden tweeted on Sunday evening.
The former vice president has consistently backed the Trump administration’s campaign to oust President Maduro, echoing Trump in recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as “interim president” of Venezuela. Biden has also supported the unilateral US embargo against Venezuela, which experts have criticized as “collective punishment” causing tens of thousands of deaths. Last year, he told the Council on Foreign Relations that he would “push for stronger multilateral sanctions” against the Caribbean country.
Biden launched the attack in response to Trump’s Oval Office interview with Axios on Friday, in which the president vowed to “maybe think about” a meeting with Maduro.
"I would maybe think about that. [...] Maduro would like to meet. And I'm never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings.”
The US leader also revealed that he “wasn't necessarily in favor” of recognizing Guaido as Venezuela’s head of state in January 2019, which he said “was [not] very meaningful one way or the other."
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