Tommy Vitor
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4,356 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Tommy Vitor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As we all know, Trump won the far more coveted FIFA Peace Prize, but he also won the less prestigious Nobel.
Ben, that sourcing is a little thin for me, like close to the White House, but it's also quite believable and a kind of fun thing.
So I wanted to include it, but I don't know.
I find it hard to believe that that was the sole reason he didn't go with Machado.
We can get to the other reasons in a sec.
And Mundo Gonzalez, who was sort of like a carve out for Machado, who was a figurehead who was allowed to run.
It's believable.
The fact that it's believable is like tells you a lot.
I mean, by the way, I mean, the Venezuelan constitution calls for new elections within 30 days of a presidential vacancy.
I haven't heard anyone in the Trump administration even mention that because they obviously don't give a shit, but it's just, you know, it's worth noting.
Yeah, I'm with you there.
I mean, so the Wall Street Journal had a more sort of substantive take.
I mean, they reported that the White House asked the CIA to do an assessment of who was best positioned to lead a post-Maduro Venezuela, and the CIA determined that the top members of the Maduro regime were better positioned than the opposition leaders, which, you know, I don't think you needed a fucking multi-billion dollar budget or intel agency to tell you that.
It's glaringly obvious, but I mean...
It does make sense that they would they would task that.
The New York Times reported that Machado pissed off Rick Grinnell, who was the sentient Twitter troll who early on made a big play to be secretary of state.
Then for a while was like Trump's primary envoy to Maduro and to Venezuela, but now seemingly has been relegated to like trying to book kiss at the Kennedy Center or whatever the hell he does.
But the Times reported that Grinnell was annoyed Machado refused to meet with him when he was in Caracas and then refused to provide him with a list of political prisoners that they wanted to see released, which is sort of weird.
They wouldn't do that.
And Grinnell was reportedly annoyed that Machado didn't have like a concrete plan for what to do if she were to take power, which.
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