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TRUMP Invites Musk to Venezuela Before His Criminal Sentencing Next Month
TRUMPs Venezuela Invitation to Musk Raises Fears Among Legal Experts
'Venezuela is Crime Ridden & Has NO Extradition Treaty' TRUMP Said - Is TRUMP Planning to FLEE?
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CUNNING Trump and SLIMEY Musk Discussed Their Shared Vision For U.S. on Social Media Platform X
It's not the first time the ex-president, who is again running for re-election, has talked about travelling to Venezuela.
During Donald Trump's "marathon" Monday night conversation with Elon Musk on the social media platform X, the convicted ex-president who faces criminal sentencing next month acknowledged the fact he could lose the presidential election, and invited his billionaire benefactor if he were again defeated, to "meet" with him in Venezuela, considered a "safe haven" as it has no extradition treaty with the United States.
And while Trump is no fan of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, he has repeatedly ?€“ and falsely claimed that nation's authoritarian dictator reduced crime by 72%, although he alleges also falsely ?€“ the drop was achieved by sending their criminals to the U.S.
Venezuela was crime ridden, Trump said "after his conviction in the hush money case," FactCheck.org reported in June. Caracas, their cities, crime ridden two years ago, three years ago. They just reported a 72% drop in crime in the last year because all of their criminals, most of them, and the rest are coming in now, the ones that didnt come in.
In Venezuela, their prisons have been emptied into the United States. Their criminals and drug dealers have been taken out of the cities and brought into the United States, and thats true with many other countries.?
Monday night, after technical glitches stalled his conversation with the owner of the social media platform who is supporting his re-election bid, including reportedly by holding "hour-long meetings" with his pro-Trump Super PAC, Trump falsely alleged the crime rate in Venezuela makes it "safer" than the United States.
Our crime rate?s going through the roof, Trump told Musk. But violent and property crime in the U.S. have dropped "significantly" since Trump left office, according to a CNN fact check of Trump's conversation with Musk.
Vox on Monday also reported, "Violent crime is plummeting."
If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, well meet the next time in Venezuela, Trump told Musk. Because itll be a far safer place to meet than our country. You and I will go and well have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela.
Legal experts jumped on Trump suggesting a trip to Venezuela, especially given his status as a convicted criminal awaiting sentencing.
"Trump is a convicted felon to be sentenced in a month and he™s talking about fleeing to a country that refuses US extradition requests," observed MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg, a former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief. "Anyone else would be in jail. Trump is showing yet again that he ist amenable to Probation?s supervision and must be sentenced to jail time."
Dean Gloster, an author and "former law clerk to two U.S. Supreme Court Justices," according to his bio, wrote: "Former attorney here. When you're five weeks away from being sentenced for 34 felony convictions, and you don't want your bond revoked, don't tell everyone you're planning to flee to Venezuela." 
National security attorney Brad Moss remarked: "No wait, yeah, he did. He hinted that he™ll flee the jurisdiction if he loses in November. Excuse me, probation officer?"
In a "serious note" on the Trump-Musk conversation, attorney and Colorado Sun columnist Mario Nicolais observed: "Trump said that if he loses, they will have to do the next one in Venezuela. That is a non-extradition country.
When he loses, he needs to be taken into custody IMMEDIATELY. He is an obvious flight risk."
"It doesn™t sound at all like hes kidding," noted U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), and it does sound like hes thought about this."
Indeed, as far back as June, Trump has been talking about going to Venezuela.
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