Posted on 09/25/2024 5:55:38 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has introduced a bill that will give a $100 million reward for the arrest and conviction of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
In a news release, Scott said Maduro is continuing his efforts to steal a third Venezuelan election, after Maduro's highly contested victory during Venezuela's presidential elections this year.
Joined by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Scott will be introducing the STOP MADURO Act – otherwise known as the Securing Timely Opportunities for Payment and Maximizing Awards for Detaining Unlawful Regime Officials.
The legislation increases the maximum reward amount from $15 million to a maximum of $100 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Maduro. To fund the reward, the federal government will be using Maduro's already seized assets.
"The time has come for Venezuela to be liberated from the illegitimate regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro. For years, I have urged the Biden-Harris administration to put the full weight of the federal government to put an end to the Maduro regime, but it has refused and continued its failed appeasement that has only enriched and emboldened Maduro and his puppet masters in Cuba at the expense of the Venezuelan people. In 2020, the Trump administration did the right thing by offering a reward of up to $15 million, but it's time to up the ante…," Scott said.
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Is it his 100 million or US taxpayers?
Just think how many commie illegal Venezuelans we can push out a plane in air drops so they can be at home again with their master for a $100,000,000. That’s a paltry sum by comparison.
They think we are stupid. This has a zero chance of passing.
Anybody else getting tired of having their intelligence insulted with these fruitless gestures?
You can always count on Rick Scott to come up with a retarded idea 6 weeks before an election. In 2022 it was a national abortion ban right after Roe vs Wade was overturned.
I can think of any number of things more important to me to spend 100 million on than arresting Maduro in Venezuela. And anyone who would turn him in would also do so for a million.
Freakin’ DC.
Why arrest him?? He didn’t do anything that Kamala/Biden/Hillary did not do.
Is this even legal ?
Exactly. We should be spending money to ensure the legitimacy of our own elections before anything else.
Yeah, that is my thought as well.
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