U.S. Treasury Sanctions Nicolas Maduro’s Wife Over Corruption, Venezuela’s ‘Decline’
ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER
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The United States Treasury targeted the wife and close associates of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with sanctions Tuesday, according to a report from Yahoo News. Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, formerly an attorney general, and other members of Maduro’s inner circle will have their U.S. assets seized, and American businesses are now prohibited from conducting business with them. “Treasury will continue to impose a financial toll on those responsible for Venezuela’s tragic decline, and the networks and front-men they use to mask their illicit wealth,” United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement cited by Yahoo. President Maduro was slapped with the same penalties on July 31, 2017, alongside the president of Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly. The Treasury said the sanctions could be lifted if those named “take concrete and meaningful actions to restore democratic order, refuse to take part in human rights abuses, speak out against abuses committed by the government, and combat corruption in Venezuela.” Maduro reportedly responded negatively to the sanctions against his wife, calling the United States “cowards.”
‘He Was a Fan!’ Trump Reveals Kyle Rittenhouse Visited Him at Mar-a-Lago
‘NICE YOUNG MAN’
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night revealed that Kyle Rittenhouse and his mother recently visited him at Mar-a-Lago, boasting to Fox News host Sean Hannity that the teenager is a “fan.” Recently acquitted of all charges after fatally shooting two men at a Kenosha protest, Rittenhouse “called and wanted to know if he could come over and say hello,” Trump said.
“Because he was a fan, unlike the other guy!” Trump bellowed, referencing Darrell Brooks, the driver accused of killing six people in the holiday parade attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The former president went on to describe Rittenhouse as a “nice young man” who should “not have suffered through a trial.” He also claimed that the 18-year-old was a victim of “prosecutorial misconduct,” something Trump groused was “happening all over the United States right now because of the Democrats.”
Rittenhouse, who’s become a right-wing cause célèbre, repeatedly said in an interview Tuesday night that he doesn’t want to be anyone’s political icon. Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who scored the first post-trial interview with Rittenhouse, also described the teenager as “not especially political.”
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