When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, she immediately dedicated the award to Donald Trump. The U.S. president can’t stop talking about how he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and White House sources even claimed that Trump didn’t make Machado president after ousting Nicolás Maduro because she committed the “ultimate sin” of accepting recognition from the Nobel Committee (though there are other, less absurd reasons that might have been a factor).

In a Fox News interview this week, Sean Hannity seemed to nudge Machado into physically giving her award to Trump. In a separate interview days later, Trump told Hannity he’d accept, saying, “That would be a great honor.” So it seemed the Fox host/friend of Don had set the stage for Machado to dramatically present her award to Trump when she visited the White House on Thursday.

But that isn’t quite what happened.

Machado did meet with Trump on Thursday afternoon. But the press........

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