The White House accused the Nobel Prize committee of “placing politics over peace” after it snubbed US President Donald Trump. The POTUS had failed to secure the Nobel Peace Prize earlier Friday — despite a vehement campaign that had repeatedly highlighted his role in “ending” over half a dozen wars. The award went instead to Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado “for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”. But the selection of a politician who had previously praised Trump and received a ringing endorsement from the Secretary of State may lessen the fallout for Norway.

Machado had heaped praise on Trump earlier this year — thanking the POTUS for his “firm commitment to freedom and democracy in Venezuela”. The comments came soon after th

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