President Trump said he would consider meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — who months ago was charged by the federal government with drug trafficking and narco terrorism.
“I would maybe think about that. … Maduro would like to meet,” the president told Axios in an interview published Sunday about a possible meeting.
Trump added that, “I’m never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings.
“I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I’ve turned them down.”
A former Trump administration official told the outlet that it was a “recurring concern” in 2017 and 2018 that the president would meet with Maduro, who is not recognized as the president of the country by the Trump administration.
The US and dozens of other countries support and recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s true leader.
But Trump, writes John Bolton is his upcoming White House tell-all, “thought Guaidó was ‘weak,’ as opposed to Maduro, who was ‘strong,’ ” according to the report.
Responding to the claims, Trump told Axios that Bolton is a “nutjob” and possibly the “dumbest human being on Earth,” for his support of the Iraq war
