Can Trump Credibly Condemn Maduro For Detaining Univision's Ramos?

Venezuela's "President" Nicolas Maduro briefly detained Univision's Jorge Ramos and his crew when Maduro wasn't pleased with his questions. While Ramos and his crew were released their equipment and notes were confiscated.

This brings me to two questions.

Will President Trump condemn this act?

But if he does will his condemnation have any credibility?

There does exist a possibility that Trump will condemn Ramos's detention given his recognition last month of opposition leader Juan Guiado as the country's interim President. Trump (along with 50 other governments including Canada's Justin Trudeau) have questioned the legitimacy of Maduro's "re-election" in May 2018 which the opposition boycotted.

It was only a week ago that Trump called for a peaceful transition of power in Venezuela and condemned Maduro for not allowing U.S. humanitarian aid from reaching the oil rich, but impoverished South American nation.

But Trump has a complicated relationship with Ramos. It was in August 2015 that Trump had Ramos ejected from a press conference in Iowa for asking tough questions about his views on immigration. Trump told the Mexican born Ramos to "go back to Univision."

As recently as February 17th, President Trump tweeted in all caps, "THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!"

So while Trump would be correct to condemn Maduro for his treatment of Ramos given his personal hostility to Ramos and repeated declarations of the media being an enemy of the people would make such a condemnation hollow.

Notwithstanding Trump's repeated condemnations of Maduro and his regime I cannot help but think that a part of him was delighted with Maduro's actions against Ramos and his Univision crew. I strongly suspect the only thing Trump regrets about this episode is that he does not have Maduro's powers where it concerns the news media.