AXIOS (Marc Caputo) - Trump admin blasts Machado's "grotesque political opportunism" after Venezuela quakes
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado 's repeated efforts to return to her home country after last week's devastating earthquakes there have outraged top Trump administration. Why it matters: Machado's high-profile attempts to return have saddled the State Department with "extra needless drama," an official said, and threaten to inflame political tensions in Venezuela amid U.S.-assisted relief efforts. - "It's political opportunism and it's grotesque," a senior administration official said, echoing four others. Zoom in: Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who ceremoniously gave her award to President Trump after U.S. forces ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, once was a darling of Washington's foreign policy…