Suddenly, everyone in the MSM—and even some in conservative media, I hate to say—is an expert on a country they thought little about until recently, which results in a lot of chaos and disinformation in the news. We joke about these leftist protesters trading in their "Free Palestine" flags and posters for "Free Nicolás Maduro" ones, but the truth is that the pundits and reporters often do the same thing.

Marco Rubio summed it up when he appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and said that "most of the 'experts' people have on television, I watch these experts and it's clown hour. These are people that have focused their entire career on the Middle East or some other part of the world because that's where all the action was. Very few of them know anything about Venezuela or the Western Hemisphere."

So, here is what I can tell you about what's next for Venezuela: No one outside the White House knows. I don't know. You don't know. The loudest reporters, anchors, and pundits in the rest of the media don't know—even the ones with the fancy anonymous sources who claim to be insiders, even the ones with the big names who get all the attention. None of them know.

I'd also be willing to bet that inside the White House, they don't know exactly because extracting a complex and corrupt authoritarian regime that's been embedded for nearly three decades isn't a predictable operation and certainly not something that happens overnight. I'm sure there's an action for every predictable reaction planned, and Donald Trump is bold enough and Rubio is smart enough to execute it.

But there are a couple of things that I'm seeing widespread misinformation on that I'd like to correct.

Myth 1: The United States endorses or is legitimizing Delcy Rodríguez.

Earlier this week, the Maduro regime swore in "Vice President" Delcy Rodríguez as interim president. Rubio has been in touch with her, and Trump has said she's being cooperative and willing to work with him, but has warned that "if she doesn't do what's right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro."

Somehow, many in the media have taken this and run with it as a ringing endorsement, as if having her in power is the endgame assuming she cooperates with the United States. It is not.

I can promise you that the Donald Trump administration will never recognize Delcy Rodríguez as president of Venezuela in any way, shape, or form.

She's just a pawn. If she's a good pawn, she may eventually get amnesty and escape to some delightful country across the Atlantic Ocean. If she's a bad pawn, well, I can only think of one price bigger than what Maduro is currently paying.

Rubio appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday and reassured the world that the US doesn't recognize Rodríguez any more than we did Maduro. "We don't believe that this regime in place is legitimate via an election, and that's not just us," he said. "It's 60-something countries around the world that have taken that view as well, including the European Union."

But, he added, they need someone who can facilitate what the US needs in the earliest stages of this extraordinary transition of power, and in a nest full of snakes, she's the easiest one to handle. She's also the one who holds the keys to the black market oil deals and signs the contracts with China, Russia, and Iran, but I'm going to write much more about that later this week.

Trump and Rubio aren't negotiating with this woman; they're squeezing her. You may see headlines from time to time about her anti-US rhetoric, but for now, it's meaningless. As Rubio says, we'll judge her by her actions, not what she says on state TV.

Real leadership for the country will come after a period of transitionand,most likely, after legitimate elections are held. We have no idea how long that will take, but Trump has said at least not within the next 30 days.

Myth 2. The Trump Administration is snubbing María Corina Machado and sidelining the opposition.

When asked about opposition leader Machado, Trump has come across as dismissive this week. He said he likes her very much but that she doesn't have the respect or popularity required to take over right now and couldn't win an election without his help. 

Even Rubio, who has known Machado for many years and has supported her through many ups and downs, who reportedly speaks to her regularly, and who has written and said so many nice things about her, including referring to her as Venezuela's "Iron Lady," has, on the surface, kind of brushed her aside.

Many in the media have decided that the Trump administration does not take Machado seriously. That couldn't be further from the truth. I'll even go out on a limb and say they're quietly paving the way for her to become president in the future.

If they were to do anything less than that, I don't think it would go over well with millions of Venezuelans who are currently incredibly grateful for our president, but it won't happen immediately.

Admittedly, they even tricked me for a minute. I watched Rubio on Face the Nation on Sunday and was disappointed by it. I can't recall another time over the past decade and a half when I have disagreed with our dear secretary of State. But when I found myself agreeing with Margaret Brennan, who acted like Rubio was turning on Machado, I knew something was terribly wrong.  

So, this is why I stopped everything and reached out to Estrella Infante, a brilliant Venezuelan opposition-aligned lawyer who knows her stuff. She assured me: "Venezuelans know, without doubt, that María Corina Machado is the legitimate leader chosen by the people." But she added, "At this moment, however, María Corina does not control the internal coercive power necessary to guarantee a peaceful transition."

That's when it occurred to me—the Trump administration is not dismissing her. Trump's talk of popularity and respect is not about the Venezuelan people at all, like Brennan and many others in the MSM are making it out to be. It's about the regime and institutions still in place that would never honor the results of the 2024 elections. They would probably not even let Machado live unless she's in a prison.

This is exactly the reason that, up until her daring escape to Oslo, Norway, last month, Machado lived in hiding. It's why President-Elect Edmundo González lives in exile in Spain. It's why his son-in-law was kidnapped while taking his children to school. It's why Marggie Orozco is serving 30 years in prison for telling her starving neighbors not to vote for Maduro. It's why you don't see the streets of Caracas filled with celebrations like you do in other countries around the world.

Related: Here's Why People Aren't Celebrating in Venezuela

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