Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she gifted the Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump during a closed-door lunch the two leaders held on Thursday.
“I presented the president of the United States the medal — the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters Thursday afternoon. “And I told him this, listen to this: ‘Two hundred years ago, General Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar, since then, kept that medal for the rest of his life. Actually, when you see his portraits, you can see the medal there.”
“It was given by Gen. Lafayette as a sign of the brotherhood between the United States and the people of Venezuela in their fight for freedom against tyranny,” she
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