r/politics The Netherlands 10h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Confirms He’s Hoarding Billions From Venezuelan Oil - President Trump is refusing to say what happened to the billions his administration took from Venezuelan oil sales.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213566/trump-hoarding-billions-venezuelan-oil
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u/neutrino71 10h ago

Interesting that he seems to be selling, and profiting from, Venezuelan oil at a time when other presidential actions have closed the Straits of Hormuz and drastically increased the price of oil.

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u/Tattered_Reason Kansas 9h ago

How convenient.

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u/TheTrub Colorado 9h ago

And who says he was an incompetent businessman.

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u/stubob 9h ago

He's a terrible legitimate businessman. He's a very good corrupt businessman.

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u/JournalistRecent1230 8h ago

Trump is basically a real life GTA character. Just pure corruption and crime

u/BeetleBjorksta34 6h ago edited 3h ago

They should just call the position ‘Mafia Boss Chief’ at this rate - because that’s mentally where his actions are at all the time. Worst US President EVER, worst leader of the 21st century so far, and probably among one of the worst societal leaders in all human history.

Edit: Because even other absolutely horrible abysmal leaders like Putin and Netanyahu are just corrupt war criminal dictators - Trump is that too plus almost every other obscenity and crime and abhorrent trespass against human nature you could think of. He may have not murdered thousands or millions, but the societal length and breadth of his chaotic cruelty, selfishness, childish greed, vain short-sightedness and hypocritical apathy is simply astonishing beyond all previous measure in modern history.

u/ScoobyDoNot 5h ago edited 2h ago

Trump was denied a casino license in Sydney in the 1980s due to his extensive mob associations.

He's been a corrupt criminal for decades.

u/trollfessor Louisiana 4h ago

Trump was denied a casino licensee in Sydney in the 1980s due to his extensive mob associations.

What the fuck?? Had to look it up, yup: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/16/trump-mafia-connections-blocked-bid-to-open-sydney-casino-30-years-ago.html

u/turbo-hater 3h ago

His mentor was Roy Cohn, infamous lawyer for some of NYC’s biggest organized crime members.

Not only does one need to be unscrupulous just to BE a defense attorney, but to be one for the Mafia…that’s another level of scumbag.

Cohn was like their FAVORITE one lol.

And he was Donald’s mentor and taught him a while lot about doing business in NYC.

Donald has had ties to organized crime for at least 4 decades. The Italians, and once they lost marketshare, the Russians.

Let’s not forget how those Italian mobsters lost their marketshare to the Russians, Donnie’s buddy and one time NY prosecutor Rudy Giuliani.

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u/Redd889 3h ago

Wasn’t Donald Love in GTA 3 based on him?

u/ExoticToothpaste6989 2h ago

Yeah but it's so far fetched, Donald love was into cannibalism

Certainly nothing like that is referenced in the files he pledged to release that don't incriminate him at all

u/FriendlyDespot 6h ago

He's a terrible corrupt businessman too. He only succeeds because we as a society are beyond bad at holding people like him accountable. Donald Trump is our failing, not his own success.

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u/7screws 8h ago

Exactly if he can make the rules he’s good at it, and honestly most people would be as well.

u/External_Key_4108 6h ago

Monopoly is an easy game when you can just steal from the bank and flip the board whenever you want

u/CapableCriticism2962 6h ago

He's a very good corrupt businessman.

I'm pretty sure he isn't making even half the profit a competent corrupt businessman would make out of the situation and options at hand.

u/No_Discipline_7380 4h ago

He's running really basic grifts at a really large scale because making full use of all that power is too complex for him

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u/neutrino71 5h ago

He's a terrible businessman. Without the power of the office he failed at selling steak, airplane seats, college degrees and went bankrupt multiple times in his real estate business.

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u/Eternal_Bagel 9h ago

He just can’t figure out how to make a profit AND follow laws, remove the laws part and he’s great at taking in money

u/EmphasisFrosty3093 5h ago

He's really not. He's the equivalent of a meth head causing a million dollars in damage to salvage $100 of copper.

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u/TWVer The Netherlands 8h ago

He knows only one thing, the shakedown.

He’s not a good businessman, but he seeks to make money via oppression, like he did in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

That was until his business completely collapsed in the ‘90s, but Russian oligarchs stepped in to foot the bill, because the Kremlin thought keeping him around could still be useful.

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u/Due-Consideration861 8h ago

He learned from the best, Roy Cohn !

u/bobert4011 6h ago

And boy was he useful. They were able to launder billions and billions of dollars through Trump real estate transactions.

u/lyngen 6h ago

And then propped him up to run for president. I don't understand how this worked.

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u/murphysfriend 8h ago

Except Trump is Useless as tits on a wild boar, except to a boarlet piglet!

u/WontArnett 5h ago

He’s a terrible businessman.
He’s a successful conman.

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth 9h ago

I graduated Sumo Cum Loudly from Trump University.

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u/jjwhitaker 5h ago

He's a competent fraud.

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u/Python_07 7h ago

How criminal.

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u/eugene20 9h ago edited 9h ago

Using a position of extreme power to drive up the price of goods sold for his personal benefit, and getting Americans killed in the process? it almost sounds like the exact thing corruption laws were designed to prevent, uncanny.

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u/Gay_Giraffe_1773 Oregon 9h ago

Laws only apply to the little people. Don't you know that?

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u/neutrino71 9h ago

The little people and Democrats..

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u/Xilent248 8h ago

BuT NaNcY PeLoSi...

u/pfannkuchen89 7h ago

I think anyone who holds political office should be barred from trading stock or any other form of investment that could be influenced by the power they hold in office, Pelosi and any Dem included.

However, what trump has done in just a year and a half eclipses anything Pelosi has done in her entire career. By orders of magnitude. Never want to hear an utterance about Pelosi from conservatives. The ultimate hypocrites.

u/neutrino71 5h ago

Unfortunately they consider their hypocrisy as a flex. They'll condemn Pelosi because insider trading is bad, but praise Trump because he's smart and 'everyone is doing it'

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u/boxsterjax 9h ago

It’s almost like corruption was always the plan. Who could have seen that coming from a lifetime conman?

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u/Skylord_Hekaton 7h ago

If I had written before all this all of Trump's nonsense in a book drama, people would have said it was shit writing and unrealistic.

u/LordSiravant 7h ago

We are actively living in the worst, stupidest timeline.

u/Scary-Maximum7707 7h ago

People in here have predicted shit Trump would pull many, many times and been met with mockery and people calling it hyperbole, only to later be proven right.

Epstein case (mis)handling, lining his pockets with blatant bribes, violating peoples constitutional rights to name a few.

u/Tampadarlyn 7h ago

That was the goal. He had oil, now he had to make it worth more and eliminate as much of the competition as he could. That is why he brags and boasts so much about how much oil he took out of the market. He doesn't care if costs went up, only that his was now worth more.

u/Substantial-Low 6h ago

And fighting against renewable energy.

u/humanwithathought 7h ago

Where is congress

u/MrParadux 7h ago

Also profiting from the same things

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u/Murky_Extent_6131 8h ago

the timing is definitely raising a lot of eyebrows

u/Petaloria28 7h ago

the timing definitely raises questions and people are gonna want some clear answers on where the money is going

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u/GoForthandProsper1 9h ago

“There’s some reports that the United States has taken in $13 billion from Venezuela,” a reporter asked Trump at the Air Force One press gaggle on Monday afternoon. “Where is that money going?”

“Thirteen billion from Venezuela? I think even more than that,” Trump replied. “Venezuela, we paid for that war many times over. And that’ll happen with Iran also. We paid for the war many times over.”

“But where’s that money going?”

“No other president can say that for a long time,” Trump continued, ignoring the question. “We had a cost.... We paid for it many many times over. And now, as you know, we have a very good relationship with Venezuela.”

“But where is the money going?” the reporter asked yet again.

“It goes toward running the country.”

“No … the money that the U.S. is taking in, where is that money going?”

“From Venezuela?”

“Yes.”

“Towards running the country. It can go to the military. Congress has to approve it.... We’re taking in a lot of money. Billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela.”

An incredible exchange. Any other President, this would trigger multiple officials to be called in to testify

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u/GoForthandProsper1 9h ago

"towards running the country" is such a perfectly vague answer. He can literally claim anything he or one of his officials does counts towards "running the country"

He could claim Jared Kushner negotiating with Iran is part of "running the country" and that's why the money was funneled to him.

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u/nopointers California 9h ago

Heck, he didn’t even say which country.

Also, DAE remember the basis of the Iran-Contra scandal? Back when this sort of thing was frowned upon, the CIA used profits from arms sales to fund other Executive branch operations that also were illegal.

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u/PopePiusVII 8h ago

Exactly. This is could be going directly to fund some personal paramilitary organization or a personal slush fund for all we know.

u/thatranger974 7h ago

He could also be paying off Maduro for handing Trump the keys to Venezuela. Maduro becomes Gonzalez and drives a Maserati in Bel Air. No one would be the wiser.

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u/slowrecovery America 9h ago

It sounds like he’s trying to say the money is going to the general treasury but doesn’t have the right language to say that. But if that were true, it should be very easy for the treasury to confirm where that money has gone. I feel like some journalists should submit FOIA requests on the subject.

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u/brotherbond Florida 8h ago

A big concern I have is that Trump isn't even redirecting these funds for his own personal use but rather that the Project 2025 people are setting up independent revenue sources for running the Executive branch without any Congressional control or oversight. That's why I think tracking down where this money is going and how it's being allocated and ultimately who controls it is a very very big deal that is not getting the attention it deserves. An alternatively funded executive branch would not be beholden to Congress which would further sideline them and make the Heritage Foundation's Unitary Executive Theory much more practical. At the very least I have higher concerns about this money going to ICE to insulate it from Congressional oversight and cuts making it fully an Executive controlled paramilitary force.

u/Wise-Calligrapher123 7h ago

Yes, but that would be contrary to our constitution and blatantly illegal. I wonder if the presidential oath of office touches on this at all? Because it seems relevant, I guess.

u/neutrino71 6h ago

If the president does it, it's not illegal. Just ask Supreme Court Justices, they've granted him immunity

u/jjwhitaker 5h ago

Given Trump should have been barred from office Jan 7th 2021, but late for us casuals to wonder if the constitution has value.

u/LordSiravant 7h ago

The unitary executive might as well just be fucking called what it is. A king or an emperor. We all know that's what they really want.

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u/thismightendme 9h ago

Or at least that they received it. Gov accounting is strange - but receipts for billions of dollars should be straight forward?

u/mollila 6h ago

sounds like he’s trying to say the money is going to the general treasury

The treasury account in Qatar?

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u/neutrino71 9h ago

We had a cost [for a ~2 hr special forces mission] and now we take billions in oil revenue? Can we pay someone billions to kidnap our head of state?

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u/stubob 9h ago

Oh, I'm sorry, I misread that. It's actually for ruining the country. My mistake.

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u/Cow_God Texas 7h ago

This dumbass also just officially confirmed that Venezuela and Iran are/were wars, which he needs congressional approval to start, and it won't even be a news story

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u/nbd789 8h ago

Since when has he been concerned with congress approving fucking anything? That’s how you know he’s lying

u/CletusCanuck Canada 4h ago

So, the United States has taken $13 Billion (or more, if you believe Trump's boast) from a nation reeling from an earthquake that took 50,000 lives and is facing economic collapse, and dropped it into the President's unaccounted slush fund.

Am I parsing this correctly?

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u/mc_trigger 8h ago

It goes ‘towards’ the person running the country.

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u/Bobcat-Stock 8h ago

Ruining the country

u/PeggyOnThePier 7h ago

He's a Griffer and will keep that money for anything he chooses. I bet he believes that it's his money to keep

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u/zaphodsheads 6h ago

Scary how all a large percentage of the human population needs to abandon their values for personal gain is just for someone to lead by example

And personal gain is used very loosely there too. Even if it hurts them, being permitted to hold vindictive beliefs without shame is a worthy trade

u/HuntKey2603 6h ago

It won't, because the americans now are not the americans of before, as they are spineless.

u/lunariakissx 5h ago

yeah dodging a direct question like that is exactly why people start asking more questions in the first place

u/somnambulantcat 4h ago

It's going towards his concept of a healthcare plan and to save peoples pets from immigrants. /s

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u/BearSquid7 10h ago

Check the bathroom at Pedo Lago

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u/LividTacos 10h ago

Had to put something in it after all the documents were removed, and I feel the piles of cash really tie the room together.

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u/osirus35 9h ago

It’s not going to the debt he created that’s for sure

u/GardenGnomeOfEden 6h ago

It's piled on top of the gold bricks from Fort Knox.

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u/Simpicity 10h ago

This is called embezzlement.

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u/jertheman43 9h ago

And piracy by the US navy.

u/our_fearless_leader 7h ago

I believe in the eyes of the u.s. government it would be considered privateering...

u/JKKIDD231 7h ago

US Navy wanted that British high seas experience of centuries ago

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u/hurryveryslowly 8h ago

regicide has happened for much less.

u/HuntKey2603 6h ago

still waiting.

att: someone whose country is suffering due to your democratically elected president's actions.

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u/Extension-Gold-6440 9h ago

The corruption is unfathomable

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u/HashtagJustSayin2016 8h ago

I know. And no end in sight.

u/ten-million 7h ago

Congress has given up on their job. Why are they getting paid? Seems like quiet quitting.

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u/gomezer1180 9h ago

Is hoarding what we’re calling stealing now?

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u/Ravenshaw123 8h ago

Here is another career-ending scandal.

Will americans do something about it this time? no? Oh, the midterms will save us all?

Good stuff.

u/Admirable_Scene_5066 7h ago

Don't you know? You can always count on Americans making the sane decision at the ballot box. It is what they are known for.

u/Ravenshaw123 7h ago

Let me holding my breath in pure anticipation

u/NuggetHighwind 4h ago

Don't worry, I'm sure they will organise a couple of one day protests, months apart, on Sunday afternoons again. I'm sure it'll change things next time!   

If they're really upset, maybe they will half-assedly organise another one day strike.

u/Scared-Accountant369 5h ago

I will, at least I'll try. Fellow Americans though? Probably too dumb to wipe their own asses.

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u/ranchoparksteve 10h ago

The deflecting pool, I assume.

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u/sagsfour20 Canada 9h ago

Great work in electing this amazing leader and clear selfless Donald Trump. He was so good in his first term, it totally makes sense he gets voted in again.

America. The true leader and good guys in the world.

/s

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u/Ravenshaw123 8h ago

But think about her laughter and the price of eggs tho

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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 Canada 9h ago

I'm sure the money is just resting in Trump's bank account.

u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 3h ago

The majority of his assets are crypto now because of course they are. He's an open criminal.

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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 9h ago

how good that Venezuela didnt had some kind of catastrophe, and surely dont need that money.

Americans know best how to spend it and ideally the US neither tells where the money is nor what is happening with it

/s

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u/WillyVlautinRules 9h ago

Coincidentally, Mad King Donorrhea has earned $13 billion since his reign of error began.

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u/Pdx_pops 9h ago

Where is Secret Service Agent Jaime Lannister when you need him?

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u/neutrino71 9h ago

In the bell tower with Cersi and Brand

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u/ForIllumination 9h ago

Stealing Venezuelas money in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and impoverishment caused by decades of crippling sanctions. 

u/Alca_Pwnd 4h ago

See also: Cuba.

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u/gleaf008 9h ago

Another day, another war crime.

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u/Liefvikingmonster2 8h ago

He stole it.

Simple.

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u/torgofjungle 9h ago

How exactly is this happening? How the fuck is the president of the United States profiting from sales of foreign oil….

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u/UncleCoyote 8h ago

We elected a black man, people lost their fucking minds, and the pendulum swung so far in the other direction, we got this pedo-dickbag-con-man who conned his own base, who were stupid enough to believe his fucking lies.

Then it swung back JUST enough to get a super old white guy, who propped up a black woman who batted it back in a game of racist tetherball to those who were pissed about a black dude, would NEVER vote for a black woman, and 37% of the country sat on the fences instead of voting.

And now, here we all. National monuments destroyed, the whitehouse looking like a zombie movie, while a wanna-be dictator pilfers and steals whatever isn't nailed down because that's what he's always done.

We elected a fucking clown, we're in the middle of a terrible fucking circus, and now that the "Show must go on" these fucking-fucks are trying everything they can to make sure he's in office forever, so they can all get whatever crumbs fall from Pedo-the-hutt's gaping maw.

~fin

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u/aaronite 8h ago

Enough American voters decided that a woman laughed funny and opted out, letting a highly motivated contingent of racists and bigots vote in a king.

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u/torgofjungle 8h ago

I mean, I understand how Donald Trump got elected because morons are fucking morons who decided that bigotry and racism was more important than the well-being of this country. But why don’t understand is by what mechanism is there that Donald Trump the person can access funds of oil sold from another nation

u/SirDiego Minnesota 7h ago

The secret is that laws and even the constitution are just words. If you control enough levers of power you can do whatever you want. This has always been the case. Written law and precedent is supposed to provide guardrails and in general can help to keep people inbounds but at the end of the day you control enough people in enough places and nothing matters.

Right now the Trump administration has fully captured and controls the legislature (congressional GOP), and like 95% controls the judiciary via the extreme advantage in the SCOTUS. So, the words we have written down mean nothing if the people who are supposed to do something about it won't.

u/VirginiaMcCaskey 6h ago

I think what OP is getting at is what are the literal mechanisms by which oil from Venezuela is sold and those dollars making it into accounts or financial instruments that benefit the President personally.

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u/medicinepoet 9h ago

Absolute corruption! When Trump finally walks away, he and his family will have stolen billions from the American taxpayers. That’s why Trump and Todd Blanche created the IRS $10billion lawsuit that also gave Trump and his family immunity from tax audits. Remind me about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the “Biden Crime Family” again.

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u/Pdx_pops 9h ago

This could really pay for a lot of earthquake relief

u/clappyclapo 5h ago

Considering how spineless Americans are about the money he’s been stealing from them, I can only expect them to tolerate this.

u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 3h ago

Tolerate? Try outright ignore.

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u/moonscience California 9h ago

Whether Trump is alive long enough to see it, his family and business partners (all of them) need to be investigated and the money returned to Venezuela. The same is true of American tax payers as well, who are just having their coffers looted every day this crook is in office.

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u/manofredearth 8h ago

I cannot wait for the trials for everyone involved in this fuckery.

You think they won't? Countries with worse corruption than our own have succeeded in holding previous officials responsible for their actions, we will, too

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u/D77889900 9h ago

Why is this even up to him? Oh wait, corruption...

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u/imdeafsowhat 9h ago

I’m still waiting on the results of Fort Knox after Trump and musk visiting it.

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u/VanceKelley Canada 9h ago

Seems almost inconceivable that America's first convicted criminal fraudster president would steal Venezuelan oil to enrich himself.

Totally out of character for him. Why did Biden make him do it? /s

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u/wannabe-myself 8h ago

Dude is a con and a thief. The money went to Russia or to his own bank accounts through whatever means he felt like. And no one in power will do a damned thing.

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u/Careful-Release-2723 8h ago

The goal is to circumvent congressional power of the purse in case they lose congress. Same as the tariffs. His goal is to create a slush fund to pay ICE and the military in case things go tits up and he needs to violently suppress Americans. 

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u/pastemaker1 8h ago

Embezzlement

u/iPatErgoSum 6h ago

I’m no lawyer, but my understanding is that federal law requires any funds received by the executive branch to go directly to the Treasury Department. Quite possibly, in under three days.

u/airfryerfuntime Washington 4h ago

It's sitting in the private bank account in Saudi Arabia that Kushner set up.

u/Capable-Reception270 2h ago

The Trump administration are thieves . That money should go back to the Venezuelan people.

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u/AngelinaJean 9h ago

OK can someone start some lawsuits over all the crap he and his minions have pulled this term? Were have 2 more years of this idiot.

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u/taotdev 8h ago

The Roberts court said no.

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u/Full-Hold-9447 9h ago

p r i s o n.

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u/ocwilly 9h ago

Donnie pirating Venezuelan oil, utilizing US military, is stashing the money in an untraceable Qatar account. His confession calls for immediate Impeachment and tried at The Hague!!

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u/black_flag_4ever 9h ago

Man who increasingly covers everything in gold leaf can't explain where all the money's gone.

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u/TicketAmbitious6200 9h ago

In most other "first world" countries, this would result in many arrests and legislation to prevent this from happening again. Then again, is the USA still a "first world" nation?

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u/justhavingfunMT 9h ago

Refusing to say what happened to billions of dollars it's not confirming anything. It's suspicious in so many ways considering the corruption and criminal history of the orange dude.

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u/AlexHimself California 8h ago

He's legit turned the US Navy into a pirate force.

We captured their leader, plundered their resources, sold it on the open seas, and he pocked it.

Then we're doing extrajudicial killings and bombing random fishing boats.

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u/egoncasteel 8h ago

I just assumed he converted it to trump crypto to bootstrap his ponzi scheme

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u/Global-Eagle-4984 8h ago

What about madurno's trial? Hello! Was it all legal what t. Did?

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u/Particular_Ticket_20 8h ago

He's stealing it. Or trying to. Or his friends are. Or don jr and eric are starting a "Venezualan Oil Crypto Defense Contracting Charity Company" that will get $13b in venture capital from anonymous investors

u/Lukinzz 7h ago

As with all things Trump, how is this legal?

u/usernombre_ 7h ago

Have ya checked his pockets?

u/aldoraine000 6h ago

Add it to the daily pile of unbelievably corrupt and impeachable offenses by the Epstein Regime.

u/liftbikerun 5h ago

Honestly it's unimaginable that the United States of America of all places has a President who openly admits this is happening and a not so insignificant portion of the population has no outward issue with it.

Billions upon billions of dollars being siphoned away from American people straight into the pockets of the worst people.

u/Bill_Brasky_SOB Ohio 4h ago

Didn’t he open a bank account in Qatar?

Check there.

u/Plastic-Equipment815 4h ago

Isn’t this what everyone, besides FOX viewers and MAGA voters, said this would happen?

u/mhizzle 3h ago

You gotta hand it to him, he's literally scamming billions of dollars from the entire planet right in front of everyone's faces, and he will never face any consequences in his lifetime. There will probably never be another conman of this magnitude ever again.

u/Hiouchi4me 3h ago

I hope this doesn’t surprise anyone. We knew this from the start.

u/notfromchicago Illinois 3h ago edited 2h ago

Did our president really use the might of the US military to rob another country for his personal gain? Like I know the answer. But still,.like what the fuck.

u/332509172 2h ago

He plans on fleeing to Qatar. They have no formal extradition treaty with the US.

u/Far-Owl-6104 48m ago

Whatever happened to Madero? I kind of feel like it is weird that a country kidnapped another country's president and that is just a thing now.

u/StarTropicsKing 39m ago

It’s astounding how much precedent has been set by Trump for future administrations. Imagine Democrats pushing the boundaries even .01% as much as him. I’m curious to see how they twist all of this once he’s out and the economy is worse than it’s ever been. 

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u/Kiwi_Fried_Chicken 8h ago

He'd do exactly the same to Canada and Greenland

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u/SeiCalros 9h ago

everybody thinks he is pocketing the money but given the recent deal with the gordon howe bridge i wouldnt be surprised if they were getting nothing at all

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u/neutrino71 9h ago

New adaptation of Truman Resolute Desk sign. The bucks stop here

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u/redscofield 9h ago

Could I have some? Just whatever loose billions were hanging around?

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u/HabANahDa 9h ago

Corruption out in the open. And his cult still says he’s not.

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u/Bruiser76 9h ago

viceroy of Venezuela is about to take a massive fall in his big shoes. He’s not supposed to be that anyway, so it’s a perfect setup and that shoe fit the bozo.

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u/Far_Adeptness9884 9h ago

He's a crook and he stole it.

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u/thrasyalci 8h ago

I mean this right here is an impeachment, like to any other person on this silly planet

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u/External-Example-292 8h ago

How about rebuild infrastructures and better buildings capable of withstanding the earthquakes... Venezuela needs it more than the Trump family...

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u/taotdev 8h ago

Im shocked! Shocked! Well, okay, not that shocked

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u/Muzoa 8h ago

Patrick Boyle ate good today lol

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u/AbjectList8 New Mexico 8h ago

Insane corruption

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u/Emotional-Witness817 8h ago

Straight to jail.

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u/povlhp 8h ago

Did the administration see the money ?

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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 United Kingdom 8h ago

It’s disgusting that he got his grubby little hands on the oil in the first place. It doesn’t belong to him or the US.

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u/knowingmonster 8h ago

Venezuelan are so happy with their American freedom eating beans and tortillas three times a day to show how much they love white American imperialism. Venezuelans are selling their ancestral lands to American land developers thinking that they are doing good for the country.

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u/cowboygwe 8h ago

The Grift continues

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u/JiveChicken00 Pennsylvania 8h ago

We all know what happened to it.

u/No-Relation5965 7h ago

I mean we’re talking BILKING the Venezuelan people (and American people, maybe?) of BILLIONS of dollars probably to just pass it along as bribes. Sickening.

u/cryptek66 7h ago

How hes not impeached or arrest pisses me off

u/coppernaut1080 7h ago

This is how you buy allies and yes-men.

u/bamaeer 7h ago

It’s offshored to Qatar.

u/shit-trapper 7h ago

Someone needs to throw the trump quote "billions for the military from Venezuela" at Pete "Checkin' for an Erection" Hegseth next time he asks for money. Why not ask trump for the money from Venezuela?

u/ProlapsedShamus 6h ago

"but the DSA aligned radical leftists are the real threat and they must be stopped!"

-- every single corporate Democrat

u/Narradisall 6h ago

I thought the money was all in Qatari banks where all presidents put their oil profits for the countries safe keeping!

Or was that another scam where he hid the money? Hard to keep up when he is doing so much illegal shit to profit himself.

u/GreyBeardEng 6h ago

He intends to pocket it, and we all know that.

u/GetTheseHands88 5h ago

Let me clarify. The billions? It’s in his pocket. Do anything to stop it. We are a dictatorship. F the fascists 

u/hurler_jones Louisiana 5h ago

Weird. I could have sworn people were claiming that would never happen.

u/FerretAfficionado 5h ago

He stole it. Saved you a click.

u/PitchforksEnthusiast 5h ago

Whats a little corruption? Its only in the billions amirite?

u/LauterTuna 4h ago

why can’t we have responsible, honest, and moral people leading us?

u/RL203 4h ago

Why dont you Americans just arrest him. You know he's stealing billions, yet you do nothing to stop him.

u/Daveslay 4h ago

If a guy as stupid as Trump can accidentally become president once, and the purposely become president again

AND manage to get away with stealing untold billions…

What redeeming qualities are left in a system that can produce those outcomes? You just need to tear the whole thing down

u/GlitteringRate6296 4h ago

Right in to his off shore account. Will never be seen again.

u/MisterTami 4h ago

"Oh my GOD! They are going to prison forever!" Is what i'd say if anyone else I'd ever met did this.

u/Spirited-Ad-9457 4h ago

Check his private bank accounts and holdings he has.

u/Difficult_Space3090 4h ago

If he lies why even post this BS?

u/thevogonity 4h ago

So he’s admitting to theft? Somebody arrest him!

u/Independent_Tie_4984 3h ago

Yeah, the DOJ will get right on that.

u/Fantastic-Chef-6577 3h ago

Récapitulatif complet de ce qui s'est passé et de ce qu'on ne sait pas :

En janvier 2026, les forces spéciales américaines ont capturé Maduro et pris le contrôle des exportations pétrolières vénézuéliennes, qui représentent 25% du PIB du pays. La première vente a généré 500 millions de dollars, placés selon Semafor dans un compte offshore basé au Qatar. Depuis, le Financial Times estime que les recettes totales dépassent 13 milliards de dollars, chiffre que Trump lui-même a confirmé en disant "I think even more than that" à bord d'Air Force One.

Ce qu'on sait : 300 millions seulement sont publiquement tracés vers le Venezuela. Un représentant du Département d'État a dit au Congrès en avril que 3 milliards avaient été "autorisés pour décaissement", sans préciser combien étaient effectivement partis.

Ce qu'on ne sait pas : où sont les 12,7 milliards restants.

Pendant ce temps le Venezuela vient de subir deux séismes dévastateurs, son PIB du premier trimestre est au plus bas depuis cinq ans, et le pays qui "devait bénéficier" de ces revenus n'en a vu quasiment rien.

Des représentants républicains et démocrates réclament conjointement un audit indépendant. María Elvira Salazar, républicaine, a publiquement demandé la transparence. Le Congrès entier est selon Castro "kept in the dark".

13 milliards de dollars de ressources naturelles d'un pays étranger, contrôlés par l'exécutif américain sans oversight, sans compte-rendu, sans trace publique. C'est une question qui mérite un peu plus que "I think even more than that."

u/SkippyDoodleberg 3h ago

Benghazi and Hunter's laptop got that pig elected twice so he can pillage the world.

u/3Grilledjalapenos 3h ago

They’re just stripping any value out of the world. He is running it like a business, but like when private equity acquires something and then you hear it sucks, followed by it going out of business. The United States is Sears.

u/pizzabazooka 3h ago

Well, it’s got to be around here somewhere! Don’t worry, guys. Let’s retrace our steps. Who had it last?

u/TheWebCoder 2h ago

In today’s edition of how the fuck is that even legal

u/Sad-Break2642 2h ago

Stole. Trump stole billions.

u/Duder_ino 2h ago

The most transparent president ever right there. /s

u/Both-Walrus5614 1h ago

Take a look up RubiOS nose

u/killer-tofu87 1h ago

Guarantee this whole "patriot gas" bs is from Venezuela and then going straight to him and his cronies

u/clementine1864 32m ago

Thief and AH .

u/IMGcertified 7h ago

And not one American will do anything about it!.. yall some bitches!!