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Donald Trump: “We're buying oil from Venezuela and we have more liquid gold…”

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

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Donald Trump campaigning in Juneau, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 22:28

It should be the opposite way, really, shouldn't it? You know, we took his plane away, but we give him billions of dollars a month in oil. Can you believe it? We're buying oil from Venezuela and we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country in the world. And it's good. And they don't have oil. They have tar. They have tar. You have to melt it. And you know where it gets melted in a refinery? (22:28–22:36)

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Asserts that the U.S. buys oil from Venezuela despite having the largest oil reserves.

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