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Donald Trump: “As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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LIVE: Trump speaks after US strikes Venezuela and captures Maduro

Published | Video Starts at 06:34

So we're going to stay until such time as we're going to run it, essentially until such time as a proper transition can take place. As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust. For a long period of time. They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they could have been pumping and what could have taken place. (06:34–06:39)

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Asserts that Venezuela's oil industry has been failing.

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