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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has a deputy he can’t seem to rein in, seven senior officials told Axios. <\/p>\n

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According to the report, Chris Landau, Rubio’s second at the State Department, is secretly working to undermine President Donald Trump in Venezuela, where his father once served as the ambassador. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a widespread belief that Landau went rogue,\u201d said one Axios source. \u201cAnd the evidence supports that belief.\u201d Another staffer added: \u201cMarco isn\u2019t happy\u201d with the deputy over the move. <\/p>\n

After two earthquakes hit the Venezuelan capital Caracas on June 24, killing over 3,500 people and injuring thousands, exiled opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado tried to get back to Venezuela to help. The Trump administration stopped her both times, despite her loyalty to Trump. <\/p>\n

Machado was once an ally of Trump world, but Axios described her relationship with the White House as strained. It could come from the fact that she won the Nobel Peace Prize last year instead of Trump. She donated the medal to him after he complained so relentlessly that Norway was fearful Trump would come after their country. <\/p>\n

After he staged a kidnapping mission in Venezuela to seize President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, Trump handed the top spot to Maduro’s VP, Delcy Rodriguez, instead of giving it to the opposition leader. <\/p>\n

The Rubio aide has a close relationship with Machado\u2019s team. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s eerily incapable of saying anything positive\u201d about Rodriguez’s interim government and certainly there’s nothing \u201cnegative about Machado.\u201d <\/p>\n

Machado called Landau and other officials in the administration after the earthquake, requesting help with getting her back to the country.<\/p>\n

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One person described it as \u201cforum-shopped,\u201d a reference to those who search for the perfect person to give them what they want. And “Landau was happy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landau spoke with the Netherlands ambassador, who said he would help get her to Venezuela by going through the Dutch island of Cura\u00e7ao. The ambassador then checked with other officials and found she hadn’t been cleared to travel and lacked a Venezuelan passport. Her plane was forced to return on June 25, as she learned mid-flight that she couldn’t enter the country. <\/p>\n

Axios said that she eventually spoke to Rubio who mentioned the existing U.S. policy. Instead of that being the end, Landau also \u201cthen miscommunicated the same sentiment a second time to a second foreign official,” the report said. <\/p>\n

So, on June 26, Landau told Panama\u2019s foreign minister that he was arranging Machado\u2019s return through their country. Machado was able to land and a few days later tried to make her way to Cura\u00e7ao, but she was blocked again. Her next option may be to fly into Colombia and cross the Venezuelan border via roads or trains. <\/p>\n

Landau swore that at no point did he misrepresent U.S. policy on Venezuela in any of the conversations he had with international leaders. <\/p>\n

The State Department gave a statement to Axios, saying they all remain \u201cin lockstep behind President Trump and Secretary Rubio in advancing the president\u2019s foreign policy agenda.\u201d <\/p>\n

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