Trump, Venezuela and oil
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Jesse Watters claimed that the US taking Venezuela’s oil was legitimate because it looted Japan for gold in WW2
Trump promised his voters that “America First” would stand against more foreign entanglements. Instead, he intervened with force and without congressional approval in a new frontier, a South American capital so far from Washington that Google Maps says it “can't seem to find a way there.”
Here's a look at how recent polls rank President Donald Trump in the aftermath of a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela.
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Trump’s vague claims of the US running Venezuela raise questions about planning for what comes next
President Donald Trump’s has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so.
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the operation in Venezuela was known as Operation Absolute Resolve and involved more than 150 aircraft across the Western Hemisphere. Caine said it was the "culmination of months of planning and rehearsal" adding that the operation could only have been conducted by the U.S. military.
Venezuela will not have new elections in the next 30 days, President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Monday, projecting a longer-term engagement two days after U.S. forces captured that nation's leader, Nicolás Maduro.
In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening. Then Venezuela's foreign minister, Rodríguez directed Citgo — a subsidiary of the state oil company — to make a $500,
President Donald Trump says the money would be controlled by him but it would be used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States.
After the United States attacked Venezuela to capture President Nicolàs Maduras, Donald Trump says he has a new territory to focus on.