Trump’s harsh confession on Venezuela: “It was about to collapse, we would have kept all that oil”

The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, confessed that his government tried to collapse the economy of Venezuela and criticized the commercial relationship of the Joe Biden administration with the Latin American country: “We are making a dictator rich,” he said in reference to the president of that country Nicolás Maduro, by buying the oil that the US nation needs. ” When I left, Venezuela was about to collapse. We would have taken it, we would have kept all that oil,” he confessed. He added: “It would have been fair. But now we buy oil from Venezuela. We are making a dictator very rich. Can you believe it? No one can believe it.” The former president made these confessions during his first public speech after the indictment for 37 criminal charges related to classified documents found in his Florida home in 2022, in the middle of the campaign for the Republican primaries with a view to returning to the White House. There, he insisted on the need for political change in the United States: “Remember that I campaigned and said that we are going to end up being Venezuela on steroids. And that’s exactly what’s happening to our country, it’s going to hell,” he said. The government of Donald Trump maintained a severe policy against the main Chavista leaders, whom it sanctioned through the US Treasury Department. In addition, he intensified the trade blockade to suffocate the Venezuelan economy. In turn, in January 2019, his administration was among the first to recognize Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela, after the 2015 National Assembly ignored the May 2018 elections, in which Maduro was re-elected.

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