Biden Admin. Owes Trump a $25 Million Bounty for Capturing Maduro

 

Shortly before leaving office in 2025, the Biden administration raised the bounty on Nicolás Maduro to $25 million. President Trump should have a huge payday coming.

Democrats and liberals are having a meltdown over the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, Venezuelans are cheering and thanking President Trump, while Cubans, Burmese, Iranians, and other oppressed people are taking to the streets and online, openly calling on President Trump to remove the dictators ruling their countries.

Ironically, American liberals and Democrats appear to be the only people upset by Maduro’s removal. Once again, as with the case of deported MS-13 gang member and wife beater Kilmar Ábrego García, or RFK Jr.’s stance against food additives and autism that drove liberals to protest in favor of keeping America sick, Trump has put the left in the position of defending the indefensible. To their credit, they are defying logic and making a serious effort at it.

Maduro stole the July 2024 election. Independent exit polls showed opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia received roughly two-thirds of the vote, yet Maduro declared himself the winner. The regime responded with violent repression, jailing thousands of protesters and dissidents. Security forces were accused of arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial killings.

Venezuela has suffered economic collapse. Nearly 8 million Venezuelans, roughly a quarter of the population, have fled the country over the past decade due to the humanitarian crisis. The government also barred the leading opposition candidate, María Corina Machado, from running, despite her decisive victory in the opposition primary.

Although the mainstream media would have people believe Trump is alone in identifying Maduro as an illegitimate head of state, more than 50 countries refused to recognize Maduro as Venezuela’s legitimate leader after he usurped power. The Carter Center stated that Venezuela’s 2024 election did not meet international standards of electoral integrity and could not be considered democratic. The organization noted that the electoral authority’s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station constituted a breach of fundamental electoral principles.

The Biden administration consistently opposed Maduro’s 2024 election. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the United States had serious concerns that the results did not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people.

On January 10, 2025, the State Department declared that Maduro lost the 2024 presidential election and had no right to claim the presidency. The United States rejected the National Electoral Council’s announcement, refused to recognize Maduro as president, and acknowledged that the evidence supported opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia’s victory.

Biden maintained Trump-era sanctions throughout most of his presidency. The administration offered sanctions relief in October 2023 to incentivize free elections. When Maduro failed to meet commitments, Biden reinstated sanctions in April 2024. In January 2025, Biden imposed sanctions on eight Maduro-aligned officials. By January 2025, nearly 2,000 Maduro-aligned individuals had visa restrictions imposed by the State Department.

The Wall Street Journal reported in August 2024 that the Biden administration discussed pardons for Maduro and top lieutenants facing Justice Department indictments. The administration offered everything on the table to persuade Maduro to leave before his January 2025 inauguration.

Trump’s first administration placed a $15 million bounty on Maduro in March 2020. The Biden administration increased the bounty to $25 million in January 2025, days before leaving office. The administration also increased the bounty on Diosdado Cabello to $25 million and added a $15 million bounty on Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López.

Chuck Schumer criticized Trump’s actions in Venezuela, but in 2019 he criticized Trump for not doing enough to stop Maduro. In 2026, Trump did more to remove Maduro than Biden, Schumer, or any world leader has done.

The United States, the European Union, and other countries issued formal resolutions regarding the stolen 2024 Venezuelan election. The United States issued a joint statement at the United Nations on September 12, 2024, urging the National Electoral Council to publish voting results. The European Union issued statements through its High Representative, and the European Parliament passed resolutions condemning the election process.

They all acknowledged that Maduro was illegitimate, but only Trump 2.0 actually did anything about it. Now Biden needs to pay Trump the $25 million bounty. He earned it.

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