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Donald Trump: “Venezuela unilaterally seized and sold American oil…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 15:31

They were drug dealers, they were drug kingpins. They sent everybody bad into the United States, but no longer. And we have now a border where nobody gets through. In addition, Venezuela unilaterally seized and sold American oil, American assets and American platforms, costing us billions and billions of dollars. They did this a while ago, but we never had a president that did anything about it. They took all of our property. It was our property, we built it. (15:31–15:44)

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Asserts that Venezuela seized and sold American oil and assets, costing billions.

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