Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Trump administration is tapping Venezuela's 300 billion barrels of oil reserves to expand supply and cut prices.
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THE OIL AND THE LIST
Administration lists 21st terror group days after securing Venezuela's oil; its first lady seeks release for her heart.
“They took the man's country, they're taking his oil, and now his wife's sitting in a cell in Brooklyn asking to go home while the guy running the deal decides what home even means anymore. Twenty-one names on a terror list and not one of them explains who actually gets that oil money — it sure ain't showing up in your check. This is the same government we're told is too dangerous to deal with, right up until there's three hundred billion barrels of it to carve up.”
“Three hundred billion barrels, more supply, lower prices at the pump — that's not a heist, that's basic economics, and the deal speaks for itself. The terrorism list is a completely separate security matter, the State Department protecting the hemisphere, nothing to do with the timing — I mean, sure, the timing is what it is, but — did I just say that? Forget I said that.”
The receipts
Brooklyn, New York In New York City on September 3, for the ninth month in a row, protesters rallied outside Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where the U.S. is holding Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores. New York City, Sept.
Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on US drug trafficking charges.
The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas and two months after The New York Times revealed that U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the foreign terrorist designation of Los Tiguerones during his diplomatic tour through Latin America.
· Trump Official Denies Stealing Venezuela's Oil One Hour After Boasting Country is 'Forced to Work' With US from the morgue, 6 Sep 2026
· 'Mobster Language': Trump Says Venezuelan Oil Will Replenish US Reserves from the morgue, 30 Aug 2026
· 'Yet Another Trump Grift': Congress Called to Stop US Takeover of Venezuelan Oil Fields from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
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