Trump allies pushed claims in 2020 that tied voting machine companies to election fraud and involved Venezuela, claiming companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic had initially been created to rig elections in Venezuela in favor of former leader Hugo Chavez, and employed the same tactics to help Biden win.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro faces narcotics charges after U.S. military operation, while Sen. Chuck Schumer and Democrats criticize Trump administration for not notifying Congress.

President Trump, who returned to the White House to serve a second nonconsecutive term by winning the 2024 election, again claimed election "rigged."

Chuck Schumer blasted Trump's "lawlessness" in arresting Nicolás Maduro on Sunday — but he ripped the president in 2020 for not bringing democracy to Venezuela

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel who brought two now-dropped criminal cases against U.S. President Donald Trump, said that the Republican had acknowledged to others that he lost the 2020 election against former President Joe Biden, according to a transcript of a testimony by Smith.

Former special counsel Jack Smith defended his decision to bring charges twice against President Donald Trump -- telling lawmakers in a closed-door deposition earlier this month that his team "had proof beyond reasonable doubt in both cases" that Trump was guilty of the charges in the 2020 election interference and classified documents cases.

President Trump is still sowing doubt about the integrity of America’s elections. The claims could affect this year’s midterms.

The president posted on Truth Social over 100 times overnight, also touting his own economic policies and efforts to end foreign wars.

In 2020, for example, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, chastised Trump for not ending the Maduro regime: "The president brags about his Venezuela policy? Give us a break. He hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime."