#248 – USA+ | Trump & Rubio’s Venezuela Endgame After Maduro — and the Florida Lobby | Marc Caputo, Axios

What is Trump’s endgame in Venezuela after Maduro? What is the strategy? Marco Rubio has finally had his long-awaited “Venezuela moment” — but what role did the Miami lobby play, and what comes next?

Axios senior reporter Marc Caputo joins me from Miami. Caputo has spent more than 25 years covering the White House and Florida politics, and he has followed Marco Rubio’s career for over a decade. In a recent Axios piece, published just after Maduro’s fall, Caputo wrote: “The U.

S. secretary of state didn’t just help mastermind the ouster of Venezuela’s dictator on Saturday. Rubio is now in charge of making sure President Trump’s risky move against Nicolás Maduro doesn’t descend into chaos.