Donald J. Trump #crackpot #wingnut nbcnews.com
'We are going to run the country': Trump says U.S. will govern Venezuela until there's a 'proper transition'
President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the U.S. will “run” Venezuela following a U.S. military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition” to new leadership, Trump said during a press conference in Florida.
The U.S. president added that he didn’t want a new leader to take over in the wake of Maduro’s capture [...]
“So, we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. And it has to be judicious, because that’s what we’re all about,” Trump added. “We can’t take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind.”
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In his remarks, Trump did not clarify what it would mean for the U.S. to “run” Venezuela but said that U.S. oil companies were prepared to make major investments in the country.
“We’re going to have our very large [U.S.] oil companies [...] go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” he said.
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“We are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so. [...]”
[...] the president said, "We’re not afraid of boots on the ground."
"[...] [W]e’re going to make sure that that country is run properly. We’re not doing this in vain," he added.
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"It won’t cost us anything, because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial," Trump said.
Later, he added [...], "We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the [USA] in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country."
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