US Kidnaps Venezuelan President Maduro – We watched every corporate politician's reaction
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Watch the full Monday Mourning here: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/us-kidnaps-venezuelan-president-maduro?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Click here for our episode on Trump's Venezuela War: https://youtu.be/-R9OJP5K21A
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Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning, where we watch the Sunday morning |
| 0:05.0 | new show so that you do not have to. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Katie Helper. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Mary Mattee. |
| 0:08.7 | Good morning, morning. |
| 0:09.4 | Thanks you so much for being here. |
| 0:11.2 | Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. |
| 0:14.5 | Go there to support the show and get bonus content. |
| 0:18.4 | What a way to kick off the year, 2006, just a few days in, |
| 0:22.2 | and we've already got a kidnapping of a foreign leader. |
| 0:26.5 | And the conquest, Trump says, of the country. |
| 0:28.7 | We're talking about Venezuela, kidnapping Nicholas Maduro and his wife. |
| 0:33.5 | As we're broadcasting today, they are appearing in a New York courtroom. |
| 0:41.3 | Trump is off to a great start, 2006. I mean, it is a nice tradition, right, where the U.S. facilitates these things with, for instance, |
| 0:50.3 | Zelaya, Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. |
| 0:53.3 | He was flown out in his pajamas. |
| 0:56.4 | And Hillary Clinton, of course, famously said that wasn't a coup, even though it was a coup. |
| 1:00.8 | We also helped fly out, aka kidnap, Aristide, in Haiti. |
| 1:07.0 | But this really is a more aggressive form of that. |
| 1:09.2 | So Donald Trump is really maturing this art form. |
| 1:12.7 | He's really developing it. |
| 1:15.2 | Well, and that's what we're going to focus today's show on. |
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