Newsmax went on a junket to Israel last summer, and in February Newsmax chief Christopher Ruddy and one of his TV hosts took a similar junket to Venezuela in February for the apparent sole purpose of fluffing President Trump — something Ruddy loves to do. Newsmax tweeted on Feb. 5: “NEWSMAX CEO Chris Ruddy, host Rob Schmitt just landed in Caracas to talk with top leaders on the Trump/Rubio plan to ‘Make Venezuela Great Again!'” Ruddy did some serious Trump-fluffing in a Feb. 6 interview by Schmitt
Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, standing near a monument to Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday lauded President Donald Trump as “a new great liberator” and said the president “miraculously overthrew a regime” in Venezuela “without an invasion.”
“We’re here in the shadow of the great monument to Simon Bolivar, the great liberator. It’s right up here, the great liberator of Latin America. And he’s a hero, right?” Ruddy told Newsmaxhost Rob Schmitt, who is in Venezuela to conduct exclusive interviews with the nation’s leadership.
“We now have a new great liberator, Donald Trump,” said Ruddy. “President Trump almost miraculously overthrew a regime, the Chavez-Maduro regime, which had been entrenched for over 25 years.”
Nobody, he added, “thought that we could ever remove them and he did it without an invasion. Just one military strike. Boom. It was done.”
Ruddy said Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have Venezuela on a pathway to success, adding that the people he and Schmitt have been speaking with are enthusiastic about the direction in which the country is headed.
Both Ruddy and Schmitt made sure to tout how Newsmax is allegedly doing as well:
Schmitt emphasized Newsmax’s access on the ground in Caracas, which Ruddy tied to the network’s growth.
“Well, it’s a sign I think, Newsmax, people are talking,” Ruddy said. “Millions of people are tuning in to us around, as we like to say, they’re making the switch to Newsmax. And so we’re first, and you are first, so it’s going to be great.”
We’ve already noted how Newsmax got a lot of mileage out of an interview of one Venezuelan ofifcial.