Fox host says “we would be better off” with Maria Corina Machado in charge of Venezuela
Rachel Campos-Duffy: “We would be better off, Lawrence, if we found a way to put the woman who won the election back in office”
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From the January 5, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (GUEST): Everyone knows about the poverty in Venezuela. But the repression as well, you know, the woman who is in charge right now, Delcy Rodriguez, she is behind a lot of that repression. There is a reason why the military backs her, because anybody who opposed Maduro in the military, especially in the upper echelons, was executed by orders of her. So she is torturer in chief, and it's very troubling that she remains in place. And I'm worried about these decisions, I know that the Trump administration is grappling with, you know, how do we take out Maduro and not have massive chaos? It's a very reasonable thing to think about and to be concerned about. But I'm afraid that this woman here is the wrong person in charge. She is actually the brains of the operation, Lawrence. Maduro was a bus driver for Chavez. He's an idiot. He's a clown.
LAWRENCE JONES (HOST): They made fun of him.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: That's right. This woman is the real problem. She is a communist, hardcore anti-American and she's incredibly corrupt. She is also behind the election fraud that denied the election for Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzales. So this is all very difficult situation that we're in right now. But I think we would be better off, Lawrence, if we found a way to put the woman who won the election back in office. She won by over 70%. She is pro-American, she respects President Trump. She respects President Trump so much, Lawrence, that she wanted to dedicate the Nobel prize that was given to her to President Trump because she believed he deserved it, not her. And she wants, has already said she will work with the president on economic issues, on the oil, and on rooting out the corruption that's so deep not just through Venezuela, this network of corruption goes across Latin America, and she knows where the bodies are buried here and I think she will work closely with Marco Rubio and with President Trump to put this country back on track. I'm very worried about the fact that we cannot trust Delcy Rodriguez. She is a bad, bad lady.