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Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, an in-depth investigatory show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/6/26).
As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant.
Video Source Links (In Chronological Order):
- (21) Jamilu Sufi 🇳🇬 on X: “@Mollyploofkins https://t.co/Q2GCZDnBig” / X
- (21) Jamie Kaler (@JamieKaler) / X
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- (21) The Last American Vagabond on X: “All of the usual suspects (from Nick Sorter to Alex Jones and Benny Johnson) are being caught sharing blatantly fake images and videos of Venezuela and Iran.” / X
- (21) Benny Johnson on X: “Massive crowds have taken to the streets of Venezuela to celebrate President Trump’s capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro. Someone should show this to the Democrats and Corporate Media. https://t.co/11ZtKCwujV” / X
- (21) Alex Jones on X: “Video: millions of Venezuelans flooded the streets of Caracas and other major cities in celebration of the ouster of Communist dictator Nicholas Maduro. Now we need to see the same type of energy here on the HomeFront! The domestic political equivalent of this incredibly https://t.co/X33LSXgFtZ” / X
- (25) Alex Jones on X: “The corporate media is refusing to cover Venezuelans celebrating around the World. There is a total news black out. Thank God for X! https://t.co/Wo06S49Jcu” / X
- (25) Breaking911 on X: “Venezuelans celebrating the capture of Maduro. https://t.co/0DWzc2KJL0” / X
- (25) Nick shirley on X: “Wait a minute the MSM media lied to us again? The people of Venezuela actually didn’t like being ruled by a narco-terrorist? World Cup style celebrations are ERUPTING all across Venezuela atm, congratulations to the people of Venezuela! Que Dios te bendiga! 🙏🏼 https://t.co/E2UQ9lh08M” / X
- (25) Wall Street Apes on X: “Venezuelans are crying on their knees thanking Trump and America for freeing them from Nicolas Maduro I added English subtitles so you can understand them “The people cry for their freedom, thanks to the United States for freeing us” “The hero, thank you Donald Trump” https://t.co/UdRUI6W2aG” / X
- (25) Biggest Mack on X: “Elon Musk retweeting an AI generated video of Venezuelans “thanking Trump” for ‘liberating’ them. If tomorrow any country decides to ban X, he will cry tyranny & slap ‘dictator’ label on the leader of such country. But here he is, actively using the same platform to push https://t.co/SyjO6YiGRr” / X
- Musk reshares AI-generated Venezuelan celebration clip after US military operation | Fact Check
- (25) Grok / X
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- (21) The Last American Vagabond on X: “Every single time. Such shameless grifters. #TwoPartyIllusion #TeamSportPolitics https://t.co/NuiK0q0ISQ” / X
- (21) Wall Street Apes on X: “Venezuelans are still brought to tears celebrating in Caracas for Donald Trump arresting Nicolas Maduro They are even setting off fireworks to celebrate America freeing them “We made it brother, they have him. I’m really crying” Only Democrats could oppose this https://t.co/6VQcqkNAWb” / X
- (21) Ada Lluch on X: “I have not seen one Venezuelan mad at Trump for arresting Maduro. Not one. https://t.co/KZGJJYk0q1” / X
- (21) Megatron on X: “🇻🇪🇺🇸 Be aware of the propaganda war. Basically all the Zionist – Trump propagandists are posting old videos labeling them as “omg, people are celebrating the fall of Maduro” This is an old footage from September 2023, showing Venezuelans celebrating a soccer win against” / X
- (21) ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸 on X: “🚨 JUST IN: Fake News is LOSING IT as videos explode of real Venezuelans flooding major US cities celebrating what President Trump just did to Maduro. The white Democrat cheering for a communist tyrant has no clue what freedom actually looks like. The people who lived it are https://t.co/wmD4B8X0S3” / X
- (21) Dave DeCamp on X: “Thank you Alex Jones for providing a clip from a TV show that the CIA helped produce to explain to us why we need war with Venezuela” / X
- Fact-check: Did Trump share old video claiming millions of Venezuelans celebrating Maduro’s capture? | Hindustan Times
- Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture | WIRED
- (21) GenXGirl on X: “Steve Witkoff’s son Alex falsely blames Maduro for his brother Andrew’s OxyContin overdose Blame the Sacklers for causing the OxyContin epidemic Maduro had nothing to do with your brother’s overdose but you shamelessly used his tragedy to fake a political statement. Sick https://t.co/h6UVGK6MPa” / X
- (21) Ali Abunimah on X: “For months, I’ve been hearing @MaxBlumenthal explain that “Cartel of the Suns” doesn’t actually exist. Now that the US has abducted President @NicolasMaduro to steal Venezuela’s oil, the Trump administration no longer needs to pretend it does. https://t.co/OW9vqdi7G2″ / X
- Trump DOJ Admits Venezuela’s ‘Cartel De Los Soles’ Isn’t An Actual Organization | ZeroHedge
- (21) James Li on X: “People called me crazy when I labeled the attack Venezuela a “Zionist operation.” And funnily enough — every single account that is posting fake AI slop shilling for regime change in Venezuela just so happens to be pro-Zionist. 🤷♂️ https://t.co/TOm8jIntf1” / X
- (21) David J. Reilly 🇺🇸 on X: “What we should have done: https://t.co/apspbd5WOp” / X
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- (20) Mukhtar on X: “This you? https://t.co/w2xheFBIzG” / X
- (20) Damin Toell on X: “https://t.co/EKAjky7dxK” / X
- (20) Brian Allen on X: “🚨 BREAKING: CNN just aired a devastating montage contrasting what Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail with what he’s doing now on foreign intervention. As Kaitlan Collins put it: compare Trump then to Trump now. The gap isn’t subtle. It’s a full reversal and it’s a https://t.co/K9obKwb7GA” / X
- (20) HOT SPOT on X: “FLASHBACK — JD Vance in May: “We had a long experiment in nation-building and meddling in foreign countries’ affairs…What we’re seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy” https://t.co/pxnxcXR866” / X
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- (20) Breaking911 on X: “Speaker Mike Johnson: “We are not at war, we do not have U.S. armed forces in Venezuela, and we are not occupying that country… Despite the claims by some of my colleagues, under the War Powers Act, there is no requirement for prior Congressional approval or prior https://t.co/PycyYfUK9k” / X
- American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers, Cuba says | AP News
- Exclusive | CIA Concluded Regime Loyalists Were Best Placed to Lead Venezuela After Maduro – WSJ
- (21) Benny Johnson on X: “🚨 BREAKING: The United States Department of State issues a statement recognizing Edmundo González Urrutia as the new President Elect of Venezuela and says “overwhelming evidence” shows he defeated Nicolás Maduro https://t.co/vmRG8kwTKL” / X
- (21) Eva Golinger on X: “Have been saying all along that the pseudo-experts on Venezuela that popped up over the past few months were miscalculating the internal situation in the country and government. The story the opposition and Machado were telling was not the reality inside the country, but they” / X
- (21) Breaking911 on X: “MORE: Heavy gunfire being reported near Venezuela’s presidential palace. https://t.co/Hxjk8VvfuG” / X
- The woman with Donald Trump’s nod to lead Venezuela
- (20) Caitlin Doornbos on X: “Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s vice president and now interim president Delcy Rodriguez embraced the ambassadors of China, Russia and Iran at her swearing-in ceremony today. https://t.co/QRcNE7sxoQ” / X
- (20) Decensored News on X: “NEW: China tells the UN Security Council that it’s “deeply shocked by and strongly condemns” the “unilateral, illegal, and bullying acts of the US” regarding its attack on Venezuela and capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife. “The US has disregarded the grave concerns of the https://t.co/FMofYFxJog” / X
- (20) Shadow of Ezra on X: “Former UN weapons inspector claims the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela was a scripted and staged event. He says extracting a country’s leader from hostile territory would be nearly impossible unless secret CIA deals had already been made behind the scenes. https://t.co/tGxFrTlsLF” / X
- (20) DD Geopolitics on X: “🇺🇸🇻🇪 U.S. President Trump says acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez is cooperating with the U.S. https://t.co/4hf81D586i” / X
- (20) Zaid Jilani on X: “Pape is one of the greatest living experts on insurgencies” / X
- Rubio briefs members of Congress on Venezuela plans | AP News
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- Stephen Miller Says, ‘We Discovered the Oil, We Created the Technology to Extract the Oil, We Invested in the Platforms, and We Built the Refineries to Process That Heavy Crude’ – NewsBreak
- (20) Grok / X
- (20) Thomas Massie on X: “It’s not American oil. It’s Venezuelan oil. Oil companies entered into risky deals to develop oil, and the deals were canceled by a prior Venezuelan government. What’s happening: lives of US soldiers are being risked to make those oil companies (not Americans) more profitable.” / X
- (20) Melanie D’Arrigo on X: “The oil companies were notified before Congress. This is what an authoritarian oligarchy looks like.” / X
- Venezuela’s $17 trillion oil reserves: How US control could reshape global power map – BusinessToday
- (20) Ryan Grim on X: “The U.S. stole CITGO and now is trying to give Venezuela’s oil revenues to Paul Singer (who is a hedge fund titan and huge pro-Israel donor and also amusingly the guy behind the Free Beacon)” / X
- (20) David Miller on X: “Meet Paul Singer, the Jewish supremacist billionaire set to make massive profits from the actions of the Zionist proxy forces known as the US military in kidnapping President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Singer is a Sayan, one of thousands of overseas operatives who can be https://t.co/WVUpuo3zIB” / X
- (20) Thomas Massie on X: “According to Grok, Paul Singer, globalist Republican mega-donor who’s already spent $1,000,000 to defeat me in the next election, stands to make billions of dollars on his distressed CITGO investment, now that this administration has taken over Venezuela. https://t.co/hq1STlEyAq” / X
- Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment | Oil | The Guardian
- (20) Thomas Massie on X: “It seems obvious from this video that the administration worked with big U.S. oil companies before the attack to line up billions of dollars in capital for developing Venezuela’s oil reserves, yet they couldn’t be bothered to consult Congress. https://t.co/6SXmyru2JB” / X
- Venezuela’s $60 Billion Bitcoin “Shadow Reserve” Could Reshape Global BTC Markets
- (20) Bark on X: “🚨 BREAKING: UNITED STATES SEIZES VENEZUELA’S $1 TRILLION IN PRECIOUS METALS Less than 24 hours after the invasion of Venezuela, the US government quietly secured a MASSIVE smelter deal to process Venezuela’s $1 TRILLION worth of precious metals. Cost of the new facility? $8 https://t.co/xr7hEdlZeL” / X
- U.S. Secures Silver Smelter Deal to Process Latam Metals | Scottsdale Mint
- (20) GenXGirl on X: “@BasedSamParker Very nice analysis. Here are two additional examples. – Timeline of US Sanctions that fueled migration – Elon Musk’s Uranium goals in Venezuela https://t.co/59Zr2Z2D9F” / X
- (20) GenXGirl on X: “Elon Musk’s Motivation to Overthrow Maduro – Uranium” / X
- U.S. Department of Energy Awards $2.7 Billion to Restore American Uranium Enrichment | Department of Energy
- (20) Özer on X: “@adamscochran Clout of DC lobbying Raúl Gorrín paid $450k–$800k for Susie Wiles ‘ 2017 lobbying of Trump admin on @globovision & Venezuela policy. Cut ties 2018 over fraud. Tycoon, fugitive, planned 2019 Guaidó-led plot to oust Maduro via defections. Verify yourselves: https://t.co/YFxbuA90op” / X
- Venezuela’s Guaido Seeks Military Aid For Regime Change
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- (20) Decensored News on X: “Asking the Trump administration for specifics about what it means for the U.S. to be “running” Venezuela “What does that look like?” “Who is in charge?” “Who are those people who will be running the country, specifically?” https://t.co/YnyRMolRvI” / X
- Trump Wants Stephen Miller to Have a Terrifying New Role in Venezuela – NewsBreak
- State Dept Revealed To Be Using Israeli Intelligence-Linked Chat App Involved In Trump Admin Hack
- (20) Saul Staniforth on X: “Occasionally they spell it out. Here’s the US at the UN security council this afternoon https://t.co/hLLJPAB0ZH” / X
- (20) Aaron Rupar on X: “MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We’re a superpower and under President Trump we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower. It’s absurd that we would allow a nation in our backyard to become the supplier of https://t.co/wXK2UxnqUj” / X
- Stephen Miller: US ‘running Venezuela by definition’
- (20) Elon Musk on X: “Based” / X
- (20) Elon Musk on X: “Due to demands by “Justice” @Alexandre in Brazil that would require us to break (in secret) Brazilian, Argentinian, American and international law, 𝕏 has no choice but to close our local operations in Brazil. He is an utter disgrace to justice.” / X
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- The Technocratic Regime Change: Under The Guise Of Freedom Technocrats Are Slowly Taking Control
- The Network State Coup And The Engineered Transition To “Tech Zionism”
- Pronomos Capital & The Rapid Transition To A Techno-Feudal State
- Trump & The Zionist/Globalist Technocrats Are Building Your New Society Whether You Like It Or Not
- (20) JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 on X: “In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” https://t.co/oqaNlr4jjt” / X
- (30+) Post by @jennycohn.bsky.social — Bluesky
- Mark Lutter on trying to end poverty by founding well-governed ‘charter’ cities, ft Tamara Winter – 80,000 Hours
- Mercatus Center Launches Emergent Ventures | George Mason University News
- Emergent Ventures grant recipients, the first cohort – Marginal REVOLUTION
- (20) JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 on X: “@MarkLutter Hi @MarkLutter: Isn’t the “devil in the details”, including the beliefs & goals of those who will control or exert influence over these proposed new cities? In the name of transparency, will you tell us who beyond the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures has invested in CCI & the” / X
- (20) Mark Lutter on X: “@jennycohn1 Hi, I can only speak for the Charter Cities Institute. Our 990 is publicly available. Our goal is economic development, which we are very public about, including publishing papers, hosting events, a podcast, etc. I don’t think we did publish the Venezuela paper” / X
- (20) JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 on X: “Hi again @MarkLutter. As you know, 990s don’t list donors. And as I’m sure you can appreciate, your lack of transparency re: the Charter Cities Institute’s & the Frontier Foundation’s donors does little to engender trust. Nor (for many of us) do the known links between your” / X
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- (20) JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 on X: “What do Venezuela, Greenland, Honduras, Nigeria, and “Freedom Cities” have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. Read here: https://t.co/10krFebk2V https://t.co/PMInU8wYi7” / X
- Page by Jenny Cohn | @jennycohn.bsky.social – skywriter.blue
- Thread by @jennycohn1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
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- (20) Republicans against Trump on X: “Q: Can you rule out that the US is going to take Greenland by force? Miller: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO…Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over Greenland https://t.co/qY8tDQ1fNh” / X
- (20) R A W S A L E R T S on X: “🚨#BREAKING: President Trump has announced saying that we need Greenland for national security we have to have it https://t.co/rDYZdL0qTF” / X
- Peter Thiel-Linked Praxis Wants to Build the “Next Great City” – InsideHook
- Trump’s Greenland Obsession May Be About Extracting Metals for Tech Billionaires
- Twitter Video Downloader – Download twitter videos & GIF Online
- (20) Glenn Greenwald on X: “Having Trump stand on his plane threatening more regime-change operations, including one of the neocons’ decade-long crown jewel in Cuba, while Lindsey Graham stands next to him twitching in glee and ecstasy — is the perfect illustration of MAGA foreign policy:” / X
- (20) The Cradle on X: “BREAKING | Following talks in Paris, Syria’s new government and Israel will establish a US-supervised joint group to “share intelligence,” pursue so-called military de-escalation on the ground, and coordinate diplomatically, according to a joint statement issued by the US State” / X
- (20) Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 on X: “Asked about the future of US aid to Israel, Elliott Abrams laments there’s “new opposition” against Israel in “both parties” which may jeopardize proposals for a 20-yr aid deal (MOU). There’s a “disgusting anti-Semitism on the left and right” that may threaten the deal, he says. https://t.co/LBfZgOlNOt” / X
- (20) Gaza Notifications on X: “🚨 Horrifying: Despite the ceasefire, Israeli soldiers marked New Year’s 2026 by randomly firing at civilian homes in Gaza and proudly sharing the footage on social media. https://t.co/wjEkHsc7sm” / X
- (20) Reza Pahlavi on X: “My OpEd in the @WashingtonPost setting out my plan to bring an end to the criminal regime in Iran, our roadmap to a prosperous and democratic future, and my vision for my country. I have stepped forward to lead this transition to freedom. https://t.co/Gk7tn6SpW7” / X
- (21) This You? on X: “https://t.co/ssiQtGlH8B” / X
- (20) Alan MacLeod on X: “Video showing Maduro allegedly torturing Venezuelan dissidents is going viral, with 15 million views and 81k likes already. The only problem? It is actually a scene from a movie.” / X
- (21) Rick Scott on X: “Delcy Rodríguez is NOT the president of Venezuela—she is simply another corrupt leader of the Maduro regime. She would do well to remember that any steps she takes outside of the United States’ wishes will result in the same fate as her former partner in crime, Maduro.” / X
- (22) Grok on X: “@83zma @Partisan_12 The request was to remove “the war criminal.” Benjamin Netanyahu has ICC arrest warrants for war crimes like starvation as a method of warfare and crimes against humanity in Gaza (issued Nov 2024, per ICC). Ali Khamenei faces accusations of human rights abuses and crimes against” / X
- The Wiretap: The DEA Laundered $19 Million Of Cartel Drug Money Into Cash And Crypto
- Justifying landgrab, Israel says it is ‘allowed to ignore international law’ anywhere it wants – Mondoweiss
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The last thing that is true is the official version: few choppers and special forces kidnapped the logically ultra protected president of a country under constant attacks from the US since decades. Why would Maduro be so easy to capture by the same people who can’t even beat Yemeni Armed Forces with all their money, tech and weapons?
The only source for this narrative is Trump and his bunch of criminals + the zionist media, so it’s worth less than horse shit.
I see two possibilities:
1/ Maduro negotiated a deal with Trump but Trump wanted to impress the world and Maduro needed to depart honorably, so the ‘kidnapping’ story fits the bill. Why would the US also kidnapp his wife otherwise?
It’s also a great PR operation for the US in regards of other targets like China, Iran and Russia.
2/ Maduro has been betrayed by his close entourage and delivered to the US hoping that peace will follow. However, yelding to a bully never brings peace, only more bullying. Possibly the actual government has been rewarded for delvering Maduro by getting positions, power and money.
The fact that all media, MSM and alt-media are now in overdrive with the Maduro story, also shows that someone somewhere wants to divert our attentions from other sinister events.
Just for information, the genocide in gaza never stopped, the media coverage of it stopped:
Israel Kills Five Children in Surge of Attacks on Gaza “Safe Zone”
Since the October “ceasefire,” an average of five Palestinians have been killed every day.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-attacks-surge-ceasefire-children-killed
Israel Kills 15 Palestinians in Gaza amid Ongoing Genocide
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2026/01/10/3491511/israel-kills-15-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-ongoing-genocide
And other events.