“[Twenty-four] months is a more realistic time frame but strategically, she shouldn’t be opining on a time frame,” the person close to the White House said.

Fuck off! They can hold elections on a weeks notice in Europe We don’t need to import our garbage 24 month long US election cycle into Venezuela.

And the White House stressed that President Donald Trump’s priority is rebuilding Venezuela, and that elections “cannot happen overnight.” “As the President stated, there will be elections at the right time, but his top priority is to bring Venezuela back from the dead and rebuild the country,” a White House official said in a statement to POLITICO. “When the country has recovered to the point where it can hold clean, transparent elections, it will be up to the Venezuelan people to choose their leader. We want a stable, prosperous, free, and friendly Venezuela, but this cannot happen overnight.”

Bullshit! They’ll never “be ready” in this administrations opinion. They’ll always be just one more goalpost away. Even if we accept the bonkers premise that “Venezuela is dead”, it should be up to Venezuelans how they want to rebuild the country.