Venezuela, Maduro, and the 2020 Presidential Election Connected

Jan 14, 2026 | Deep State, Globalism, Immigration, Liberty Articles

By Harold Pease, Ph. D.

Every major study of the 2020 Presidential Election shows it was rigged, was influenced by Dominion or Smartmatic voting machines, these originating from Venezuela, and was used world wide in elections during Nicholas Maduro’s reign. Maduro is the common denominator for it all. This is likely the main reason Trump went after Venezuela and had Maduro kidnapped. He is the star witness. He witnessed all of it.

Maduro photos after his kidnaping show him smilng, friendly and conversant with his captures—certainly atypical for someone living through the death of dozens around him in the assault on his home and the kidnapping also of his wife. Hand and finger gestures appear intentional, one with a peace sign, two with thumbs up (as shown above) and a third can’t be identified with common meaning. One has to wonder if he objected to his kidnapping. He looks almost freed. Perhaps his real captors were the Deep State, the cartels and his Cuban guards. Very strange.

The Deep State media treated these as conspiracies. I have said for many years a conspiracy theory that lasts more than five years is no longer a conspiracy nor likely a theory —this, assuming a free press. Still, today it is very difficult to get the other side, or sides. Everything is normally opposite what is given in their presses or computer domains, which comprise at least 85% of what is published—largely because they have the means and organization to publish.

We also know that Venezuela was the Deep State’s capital of South America and played a major role in the invasion of the United States. Biden even requested Maduro empty his gangs, prisons and insane asylums into the U.S. Thus technically Venezuela invaded the United States first. When a reporter asked Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, “Would you welcome a US military intervention in Venezuela?” She responded, “Venezuela has been invaded. We have the Russian agents. We have the Iranian agents. We have terrorists groups such as Hezbollah, [and] Hamas operating freely in accordance with the regime.” After telling us how invaded they already were, Machado added, “We will turn Venezuela into the energy, technological, and democracy hub of the Americas. We will host all of you in a bright, democratic, and free country, and it’s going to be soon” (X22 Report, hear after not cited, Ep. 3793b, Dec. 11, 2025, 41:50).

There is no question Venezuela and Maduro had become a strategic impairment for the U.S. It had become a Latin American crossroads for all USA principle enemies. Maduro was nurturing relationships with Russia, Hesbollah, Iran and Communist China. All of which challenged the sacrosanct 203 year-old Monroe Doctrine that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is potentially a hostile act against the United States. Even Communist China imported at least 24,000 military-aged men in nine months during the invasion, traveling from China to Venezuela to Columbia then through seven Central American countries finally into the United States (“China is Invading America Without Firing a Shot. Biden Lets Them!!, LibertyUnderFire.org, Jan. 3, 2023). Venezuela was central to the invasion.

President Biden’s $25 million reward for bringing in Nicholas Maduro.

Both Deep State presidents Obama and Biden said they viewed Maduro as a national threat. In 2015 Obama “issued an executive order declaring Venezuela’s president a national security threat and the government a narco terrorist organization.” The Trump administration (first term) escalated actions against Maduro using Obama’s 2015 Executive Order as a foundation, adding Trump’s 2020 indictment of him. In addition he placed a $15 million bounty on him. President Biden expounded sanctions on him in 2022 and increased the then $15 million bounty on Maduro to $25 million in 2022. “25 million for anyone who can deliver Maduro to America.” He knew no one would. Both Russia and China supported Maduro’s injecting America with drugs (Ep. 3811b, Jan. 5, 2026, 17:23). Trump executed the order of Obama and Biden. He used what they put in place to actually bring Maduro to the United States, just what his predecessors started.

We know because under Barack Obama, “Nicholas Maduro’s nephews were arrested with nearly 2000 pounds of cocaine and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison.” Despite Maduro’s facing an active US arrest warrant, that Biden increased by $10 million over narcotics charges, “Joe Biden commuted their sentences using his pardon power” (“Biden Freed Maduro’s Narco nephews After Obama Jailed them” AMUSE Jan. 5, 2026). Remember Biden’s son Hunter used and stored cocaine in the White House.

One of the many questions emerging from Operation Absolute Resolve is why Maduro guardians were foreigners not Venezuelans —32 Communist Cubans. It is supposed that he did not trust his own countrymen to protect him as he was so hated, or someone wished to keep an eye on him. Several mysterious photos of him arriving in New York have him extending both thumbs and grinning or making what appears to be other “glad finger” gestures. His wife appeared notably dismayed. Why did we bring her unless, he requested it? Deep State sources suggest these gestures are AI generated but they do not share why they “know” this and these are the same sources that have been wrong on everything else. Most sources, that show the pictures, say nothing but have been previously reliable.

Nicholas Maduro is not the first dictator kidnapped by the U.S government. In Dec. 1989 President George Herbert Walker Bush kidnapped the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega—also for importing drugs into the U.S. He was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in a federal prison in Georgia. He was release from prison 2007 then extradited to France where he served another 7 years for money laundering then to Panama for human rights violations. He died in 2017 at the age of 83.

We know Maduro was hated by most Venezuelans. We know he was controlled by the cartels and the Deep State. We know Trump and Maduro had prior communications— even two days before the raid. Since I have taught current events long before President George Herbert Walker Bush kidnapped the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega—also for importing drugs into the U.S.—and he was convicted and served his sentence in Georgia, let me share a wild hunch. It follows: What if Maduro came to hate the Deep State and no longer supported what they were doing in and to Venezuela? What if he feared both sides would kill him, his people or the cartels?

What if he chose to leverage what he knew to turn states’ evidence? He could bid for a nice prison with his wife, that may be why she came. He knows Trump is not Deep State. He knows Trump is destroying the Deep State worldwide. What he knows is of high value in doing just that. He trusts Trump. There is no safe place in Venezuela in or out of prison. He could sing like a bird, and if I am right, he will. He could testify against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, how the machines from his country installed them both and the part they and George Soros played in financing the invasion, even how Biden virtually begged him to send his gangs and criminals to the US. All of it! Is this why his first message in the U.S. was to hold both thumbs up? May be.

Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist on current events. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #855

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