Donald Trump is by far the shortest president in American history. He never forgets a little thing, even if most of them are imaginary, and he seeks revenge on people he considers political enemies.
We have often seen this behavior in action in the United States, where Trump will continue to mock and criticize people like John McCain, whose unforgivable sin in Trump’s eyes was to vote against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, even after their deaths.
Trump sought to retaliate against those who had the audacity to either discuss possible wrongdoing in his first administration, like James Comey, or successfully prosecute him, like Letitia James, the attorney general of New York State.
The courts have caused much of Trump’s agenda to hit a wall or at least hit roadblocks in the United States he has shifted his quest for unlimited power and control abroad.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was widely expected to be the next president if Maduro were ever removed from power. She was seen as the person who could usher in a new era of democracy in her home country.
Machado will not get that chance because, according to new reports, she made the mistake of angering Trump accepting the Nobel Peace Prize he covets.
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