Trump is not welcome without the right papers, says president of Venezuela.
Donald Trump will be an illegal alien if he attempts without the proper authorization to enter Venezuela after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, says Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Maduro said he needed to issue that warning after hearing Trump make the astonishing admission that he might flee to Venezuela if he loses the election.
The Venezuelan authoritarian ruler said the American former president would need to apply for asylum “just like anybody else” seeking refuge in his “wonderfully run country that is Heaven on Earth.”
If Trump doesn’t have the right documentation, Maduro warned, he’ll be sent back to the U.S. on the next plane leaving Venezuela’s capital of Caracas. Either that, or Trump will be sentenced to hard labor in a Venezuelan prison.
“We don’t want anybody coming over our border if they’re showing up illegally,” said Maduro. He voiced disdain for illegal aliens, which Maduro said “would unfortunately have to include Señor Trump” if he tries to enter Venezuela without the proper papers.
“We’re talking about an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs,” Maduro said, echoing what Trump always complains about regarding undocumented people coming over the U.S. border.
Sounding like Trump in calling it “fake news” that he actually lost the recent Venezuelan presidential election, Maduro claimed he won 98 percent of the vote. But to satisfy international observers that the race was legitimate, Maduro allowed his people to say that he only won 51 percent, versus his main rival’s 44 percent. In reality, Maduro said, there’s no way he could have lost unless the election was “stolen” from him.
“Just like Señor Trump said he did for the United States, I made Venezuela great once again,” said Maduro. As for the 2 percent who for some strange reason didn’t vote for him, Maduro said they were treated with “vacations” in special “reeducation camps” where they would be reminded how lucky they were to be living in a Venezuelan paradise.
News reports, along with international election observers, say Maduro lost the election in a landslide. The news reports also say millions of Venezuelans have left their country to escape economic hardship and political repression. But Maduro says who can believe anything the media says when a former president of the United States can’t wait to come into his country.
“If it was so bad here like these miserable people claim, Señor Trump would want to go somewhere else besides Venezuela. Si?” asked Maduro.
Meanwhile, interviewed by the X social media owner Elon Musk, Trump said he might want to buy a one-way airline ticket to Caracas if he doesn’t defeat his Democratic Party opponent, Kamala Harris, in November. That’s assuming he doesn’t encourage another assault by his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol like they did on January 6, 2021, under the false pretext that the presidential election was stolen from Trump.
“If something happens with this (U.S.) election, which would be a horror show,” said Trump, he and Musk would next rendezvous in Venezuela. That South American nation, Trump said, will “be a far safer place to meet than our country.” Trump justified this claim by saying Venezuela has gotten rid of about 70 percent of their “really bad people.” Where exactly were the other 30 percent of those bad people, Trump didn’t specify.
Maduro, informed that Trump would be inviting Elon Musk to have dinner with the former U.S. president in Venezuela, pooh-poohed that idea. Maduro said Musk, like Trump, would also be deported if he’s not in Venezuela legally.
“I don’t care if he’s the richest man in the world. Señor Musk can’t just waltz into Venezuela willy-nilly, anytime he feels like it, and think it’s okay. He first has to get permission from me,” said Maduro.
If Musk does want to come to Venezuela, added Maduro, “he better bring me a lot of money” for letting him into the country. “I don’t come cheap.”
It’s been suggested that Trump, as a convicted felon, could be jailed in the United States if he violated terms of his parole and attempted to head to Venezuela. Trump awaits sentencing after a jury found him guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying business records. As one legal expert put it, Trump was stupid for saying out loud that he’s thinking of leaving the United States.
“When you’re five weeks away from being sentenced for 34 felony convictions, and you don’t want your bond revoked, don’t tell everyone you’re planning to flee to Venezuela,” said this expert.
It’s been speculated that if Trump is not elected President in November, he would have no control over the U.S. Department of Justice which could prosecute him and send him to jail in other cases where he’s been indicted for illegal acts. That means, analysts say, to avoid such a fate, Trump might represent a flight risk to hide from U.S. law authorities.
Asked to comment if Venezuela won’t let him into the country, Trump said that won’t present any problem for him. He’ll just go somewhere else to get a red-carpet welcome, such as Russia or North Korea.
“Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Um both love me. And I love them back, okay?” said Trump who predicted that both dictators would greet him upon his landing at their airports with open arms.
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