Maduro Pleads Not Guilty to Narco-Terrorism

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Monday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced he will no longer seek election for a third term. His announcement comes after Minnesota, under his leadership, misappropriated billions-of-dollars to fraudulent welfare claims. 3:10pm- According to reports, on Friday at 10:46pm ET President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead on an extraction mission to capture Venezuelan authoritarian Nicolas Maduro. The successful raid consisted of 150 aircrafts—which eliminated air defense systems and cut power to infrastructure in Caracas. On Monday, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, appeared before a New York City judge—charged with narco-terrorism and cocaine importation conspiracies. 3:30pm- David Gelman— Criminal Defense Attorney, former Prosecutor, & a former surrogate for Donald Trump’s Legal Team—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to recap Venezuelan authoritarian Nicolas Maduro’s appearance in a New York court where he pled not guilty to drug trafficking charges. Gleman jokes that Maduro has a better chance of winning the Powerball than being granted bail. 3:40pm- Can the Trump administration legally target other tyrannical regimes? In an article for The Free Press, Yale Law Professor wrote “under Supreme Court case law, the decision about whether or not to recognize a foreign government belongs exclusively to the president.” Which is important because “foreign heads of state are immune from prosecution…but as the courts held in [Panama leader Manuel] Noriega’s case, head-of-state immunity does not apply to a dictator whom the U.S. doesn’t recognize.”

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0:15.9	I tell you, that Maduro, he's in there with some very prominent people at that
0:21.6	correctional facility detention center in new york city some very prominent people so
0:28.3	the likes of which include p ditty and others but he says he's still president of his country
0:36.2	um i don't think the judge is going to see it that way welcome to the show glad you're here today but he says he's still president of his country.
0:39.7	I don't think the judge is going to see it that way.
0:40.8	Welcome to the show.
0:41.7	Glad you're here today.
0:45.1	Welcome back after a very long, long break.
0:49.6	Hope you and your family had a great Christmas, great New Year's, all that fun stuff.
0:51.6	And we're right back at it. And we were thinking maybe a slow Monday after we were all away for two weeks. But nope, right back in it. And here we are. And so, yeah, we'll talk about Maduro. And obviously, the Midwestern doofist, Tim Walts, resigning today, he's out. He's done. I'm going to put, yeah, he's done. He's gone. And we told you this.
1:10.9	I mean, we predicted this. We said that on the show. We said that Waltz was over. His political career was over. And that was it. There was no coming back from this. He's done. I did like, though, in his resignation speech today, when he's like, but if Donald Trump does anything I don't like, I'll come back. It's like, ooh, don't scare us.
1:30.4	He's resigning in destruction. Donald Trump does anything I don't like, I'll come back. It's like, ooh, don't scare us.
1:30.4	He's resigning in disgrace as this Minnesota fraud scandal now, well over a billion dollars.
1:36.7	Estimates are it could be as high as $9 billion. The fund has only just begun.
1:42.6	And we don't know how hard this gets,
1:44.7	but the one thing we do know is this.
1:46.9	We do know that it's bad enough that he can't survive it politically,
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