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Roger Stone, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, on Monday made his case for why Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado should give up her recently-awarded Nobel Peace Prize to the president.
Stone told the right-wing Real America’s Voice network that he isn’t “happy” that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee picked Machado to receive the coveted award. In picking Machado, the body cited her promoting democratic rights for Venezuelans and her efforts combatting the country’s authoritarian government.
“The right thing to do would be for her to ask — or maybe have Marco Rubio ask her — if President Trump can give her the award and then she should hand it back to the president,” Stone said.
“He deserves this award even though I thought those elitist globalist freaks at the Nobel Peace Prize Committee would likely not give it to him.”
Stone, who was convicted of seven felonies in the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and later sentenced to 40 months in prison, suggested Barack Obama shouldn’t have received the Nobel Peace Prize and added that Machado should consider “bestowing” the award to the president.
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Machado’s win Friday hasn’t quieted Trump’s calls to be picked for the coveted award, with the president entertaining whether the committee could have made an “exception” and considered his perceived accomplishments in 2025.
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The president and his allies have used the recent U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal to further advance his case to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Following the committee’s announcement Friday, Machado took to social media where she dedicated the award to the “suffering people of Venezuela” and to Trump for his “decisive support for our cause.”
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