Trump says American oil companies will be "involved" in Venezuela's oil industry

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8 points·SilverElfin··6 comments

I had to do some editing to come up with a good title that fits. Here’s the quote from the article:

> President Donald Trump made the stunning claim Saturday just hours after his administration’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro that American oil companies would be “very much involved” in the nation’s oil industry moving forward.

> The Trump administration carried out an unprecedented attack Saturday morning on Venezuela that resulted in the capture of its president, who has since been extradited to New York to face trial on drug-trafficking charges. Trump phoned in to Fox News hours after the attack, and was asked what he saw as the future of Venezuela’s oil industry, which manages the single-largest oil reserves on earth.

> “Well I see that we’re going to be very strongly involved in it,” Trump admitted. “We have the greatest oil companies in the world – the biggest, the greatest – and we’re going to be very much involved.”

Chevron is already involved.

But will they not be able to expand their operation significantly now? And I assume they will keep donating a lot of money to the GOP. And there will be other companies getting involved for all the minerals Venezuela has in addition to the oil.

Will it obviously come out that the oil majors bribed the Trumps to do this?

This is to distract the people because of Epstein, right?

It's not a conspiracy when he says it so openly.

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