Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim That Venezuela Stole Oil and Land from the U.S.

Leave it to President Trump to sprinkle lots of crazy on top of legitimate allegations against the Marxist regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.

In his post on Tuesday evening, the president warned that the mighty “Armada” he has deployed in the Caribbean “will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before” unless and until Venezuela and its government “return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.” According to Trump, “the stolen Oil Fields” are the source of funding for the Maduro regime’s “Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping.”

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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Leave it to President Trump to sprinkle lots of crazy on top of legitimate allegations against the Marxist regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.

In his post on Tuesday evening, the president warned that the mighty “Armada” he has deployed in the Caribbean “will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before” unless and until Venezuela and its government “return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.” According to Trump, “the stolen Oil Fields” are the source of funding for the Maduro regime’s “Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping.”

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.