President Donald Trump on Monday pledged to never meet with Nicolás Maduro unless it was to discuss the Venezuelan strongman stepping down
published Sunday evening in which he signaled openness to meeting with Maduro. Trump also expressed a lack of confidence with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, the man the U.S. recognizes as the nation's acting president.to portray Trump's stated willingness to meet with Maduro as evidence that the U.S. president is weak on socialism, a critical issue for many of the state’s Cuban and Venezuelan expat voters.
Before Trump’s Twitter walk-back, the comments appeared to cut against a central tenet of the administration’s foreign policy platform. In January 2019, the White House formally recognized Guaidó as the interim president of Venezuela. Guaidó was
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