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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the U.S. has taken “billions and billions of barrels of oil from Venezuela.
Trump held a rally in Las Vegas, where he referenced the abduction of then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. special forces back in January. Maduro is currently being held in a New York jail awaiting drug trafficking charges. His vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, became president, and since that time has acquiesced to U.S. demands of the country. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly acting as the de facto viceroy of Venezuela.
In his speech, Trump slammed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but stated he likes Venezuela now:
But now, I love Venezuela. We’re doing great in Venezuela. We’re taking a lot of oil from Venezuela, and we’re getting along great with them. Billions and billions of barrels of oil is coming out of Venezuela. It’s one of the most fertile places for oil in the world. And as you know, it was a 48-minutes war. It lasted 48 minutes, and we paid for the war with what we’ve taken out many, many, many times. Where have you heard that before? You haven’t heard that before. That’s the old fashioned way, right? The old-fashioned way. To the victor belong the spoils, right? And we’re doing the same thing, by the way, in the lovely Islamic Republic of Iran. We’re doing– we’re knocking the hell out of them.
Trump has repeatedly criticized the George W. Bush administration over its decision to invade Iraq, but especially took issue with Bush for not taking the country’s oil to help pay for the war.
The president’s boast about Iran comes amid the country’s ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world’s oil flows. Iran shuttered the strait after the U.S. and Israel began their massive air war against the country in February.
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