His appointment by President Trump was met with dismay and derision by Rep. Ilhan Omar, which indicates how wise it was. “The entire thrust of the American policy in Venezuela,” Abrams declared, “is to support the Venezuelan people’s effort to restore democracy to their country. That’s our policy.”
At least, that was our policy. This past June, the president expressed more ambivalent feelings about the stolen election that led to the presidential crisis, telling Axios, “Guaidó was elected. I think that I wasn’t necessarily in favor, but I said—some people that liked it, some people didn’t. I was OK with it. I don’t think it was—you know, I don’t think it was very meaningful one way or the other.”
In a Foreign Relations Committee hearing earlier this week, Sen. Mitt Romney asked Abrams, “Will [America’s pro-Guaidó policy] ever be communicated to the world unless the president expresses it himself? . . . Until the president says that, will it ever break through?”
Abrams did his best to defend the administration in which he serves, pointing out President Trump’s previous support for Guaidó.
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