Maduro Perp Walked in Hoodie Made by Pro-America Brand Origin USA

There’s a special kind of irony that only America can deliver and this weekend, it walked straight into a Manhattan courthouse on the back of a captured socialist dictator.

Nicolás Maduro, the disgraced Venezuelan strongman now facing federal charges for narco-terrorism and weapons trafficking, was perp walked through New York City in a hoodie made by none other than Origin USA a proudly American company built to revive U.S. manufacturing and restore the American Dream.

That’s right: while being escorted by U.S. authorities, Maduro wore a “Patriot Blue” hoodie emblazoned with the company’s “Wave of Freedom” logo a symbol born from American grit and made entirely on U.S. soil.

Pete Roberts, the founder of Origin USA, addressed the now-viral image in a video posted Sunday.

“Why is this dude wearing an Origin Patriot Blue hoodie?” Roberts asked. “This logo here on the shirt Maduro is wearing, this is the wave of freedom.”

It’s hard to script a more poetic visual.

Maduro the architect of Venezuela’s collapse, a man who embraced communism, destroyed free enterprise, and crushed political dissent found himself wrapped in a symbol of everything he tried to destroy: American freedom, capitalism, and the power of a working-class comeback.

Roberts explained how the company came to exist. After watching his Maine community suffer from the outsourcing epidemic, he founded Origin in 2012 to reclaim lost jobs, restore local pride, and bring back American manufacturing one machine, one factory, one family at a time.

• Origin operates a footwear factory in Maine and a denim plant in North Carolina

• All of its products are 100% made in the USA

• The “Wave of Freedom” logo represents economic independence and American values

So how did a communist tyrant end up in gear made for patriots?

Roberts suspects that federal agents may have handed the hoodie to Maduro to help with the chilly New York weather. But he couldn’t help pointing out the poetic justice “Probably a DEA agent slipped this hoodie on him and said, ‘you’re going to feel the fabric of freedom on American soil.’”

This is more than a fashion accident. It’s a symbol.

It’s a reminder that no matter how loud the Left cheers for socialism, it always ends in handcuffs, while American values stand tall stitched into the fabric of companies like Origin USA.

And in the end, the man who crushed freedom in his own country had to wear it like a badge while facing justice in ours.

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