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Appearing on Fox News Monday night, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed a willingness to share her recently won Nobel Peace Prize with President Donald Trump, days after a report indicated he didn’t want to install her as leader of the country because she accepted the prize he wanted.

Machado had dedicated the award to Trump when she accepted it late last year. However, according to sources speaking with The Washington Post, her acceptance of the award was the “ultimate sin” against the president, as he had wanted her to refuse it altogether.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one of the sources said, the day after the military carried out Trump’s order to attack Venezuela and abduct President Nicolás Maduro.

In Machado’s interview with host Sean Hannity after that report was published, she said she’d be willing to give or share the prize with Trump.

“I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe, the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, certainly want to give it to him, and share it with him,” Machado said in her comments.

Marina Corina Machado was just on Hannity's show effusively kissing up to Trump, including........

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