President Donald Trump said in a recent interview with Axios that he might meet with Nicolás Maduro, who he previously refused to recognize as the country’s leader, distancing himself from Juan Guaidó, who he previously supported.
Trump backed Guaidó after he declared himself the acting president of Venezuela at the beginning of 2019, but his failure to oust Maduro seems to have Trump rethinking his refusal to meet with the Venezuelan dictator.
When asked if he would have a meeting with Maduro during an Oval Office interview last Friday, Trump said: "I would maybe think about that. ... Maduro would like to meet. And I'm never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings. I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I've turned them down.”
He added, "Guaidó was elected. I think that I wasn't necessarily in favor, but I said — some people that liked it, some people didn't. I was OK with it. I don't think it was — you know, I don't think it was very meaningful one way or the other."
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