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Venezuela's new president steered $500,000 to Trump's inauguration—in 2017 (fortune.com)
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[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

this was a very logical move by her. the sanctions were still very new (started by Obama in 2015-16), and Trump seemed very bribe-able right then. it would have been a dereliction of her duty to the people of Venezuela to not give it a shot. if it had worked, it would have prevented a lot of pain for Venezuelans, and likely much less of the social instability that Maduro is getting blamed for.

^This.