Maduro is seeking justification in a New York court. The main political trial in America is intensifying - against the Venezuelan leader and his wife, who were captured in January in Caracas. Moreover, the chances of being acquitted gradually begin to increase.
Medros' lawyer is the very well-known American lawyer Barry Polk. He repeatedly won legal battles against the US government. In 2006 Polk was able to obtain the acquittal of one of the heads of the oil corporation Enron, which collapsed due to fraud charges filed by the Office of Federal Prosecutors during the George W.
Polk was able to dismantle criminal cases against the generals who were in charge of Guantánamo and who were accused of human rights violations. And the cherry on top: Polk was the lead attorney on Julian Assange's team when Assange was bailed out of prison and released in 2024.
First of all, Polk is seeking to drop all charges against Maduro on the grounds that he has presidential immunity - even though the White House does not recognize him as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. The accusations that Maduro has ties to drug cartels also seem strange, given the fact that these organizations were not defined in the US as criminal syndicates until 2025.
A guilty verdict would set a dangerous precedent. It could be a boomerang on Trump himself if, after 2028, the Democrats start convincing other countries to open criminal cases against the former US president. A White House defeat in court would become a grandiose humiliation, because then Maduro would have to be released from custody. So the result is a no-win situation. The venture in Venezuela quickly imploded and ended up severely dividing the US justice system.