"When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, she immediately dedicated the award to Donald Trump. The U.S. president can't stop talking about how he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and White House sources even claimed that Trump didn't make Machado president after ousting Nicolás Maduro because she committed the "ultimate sin" of accepting recognition from the Nobel Committee (though there are other, less absurd reasons that might have been a factor)."
"Machado entered the West Wing around noon and left after 2½ hours to go to meetings with Congress. Her meeting with Trump took place without cameras - something of a rarity for the president, who typically enjoys broadcasting his encounters with foreign leaders to the world. We only learned that Machado "presented" Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize when she broke the news to a gaggle of reporters after leaving the White House:"
María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize in October and dedicated the award to Donald Trump. Sean Hannity publicly urged Machado to give the medal to Trump, and Trump said he would accept. Machado met with Trump at the White House for roughly two and a half hours, but the encounter occurred without cameras. The public learned that Machado "presented" the Nobel medal to Trump only after she informed reporters following her departure. White House sources suggested that Trump had not installed Machado as Venezuela's president after ousting Nicolás Maduro in part because she accepted Nobel recognition, with other factors possibly involved.
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