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Trump’s Venezuela oil deal is even sleazier than you think

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01.09.2026

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Trump’s Venezuela oil deal is even sleazier than you think

President once said Venezuela's oil was the dirtiest in the world. Now he's trying to steal it

Published September 1, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)

During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump talked a lot about Venezuela. He claimed that country had emptied all its asylums and prisons and sent the convicts and patients to America to kill us all in our beds. He was definitely not impressed with the Venezuelan government, nor did he think much of its most valuable resource, which is an enormous amount of oil. “We’re buying tar from Venezuela, and we’re refining it in Houston,” he complained. “It’s the dirtiest, worst oil anywhere in the world. And we’re........

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