Nobel Winner Gushes About Trump In New Fox News Interview: ‘HE Deserves It’
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado threw plenty of praise President Donald Trump’s way as she broke down on Saturday why exactly she dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to him.
Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. She joined Rachel Campos-Duffy on Fox & Friends Weekend where she explained her decision to dedicate the award to Trump.
Corina Machado said:
I decided to dedicat to President Trump because he deserves it, because not only has he been involved in only a few months in solving eight wars, but his actions have been decisive to have Venezuela now at a threshold of freedom. After 26 years of tyranny that have destroyed the lives of millions of Venezuelans, destabilized the region, and undermined institutions in the United States because having Venezuela as a safe haven of the enemies of the United States and using our territory and our resources hurt the American people and American institutions is certainly a threat.
She praised Trump as “courageous” in his support of her movement against an authoritarian regime.
“President Trump has been very clear [and] courageous in terms of dismantling this criminal structure,” she said. “On behalf of the Venezuelan people, I reaffirmed our gratitude and our commitment to this cause for the whole America so I insist he deserves it and we are very proud to be working at this moment with all these allies.”
At the White House this week, Trump broke down his talk with Corina Machado and joked he didn’t insist that she “give” him the Nobel.
“So the person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said, ‘I’m accepting this in honor of you because you really deserved it.’ A very nice thing to do. I didn’t say, ‘Then give it to me,’ though. I think she might have. She was very nice,” he said.
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