{"id":59540,"date":"2026-01-07T02:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=59540"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:39:37","slug":"president-trump-makes-huge-announcement-on-venezuelan-oil-following-capture-of-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=59540","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Makes Huge Announcement on Venezuelan Oil Following Capture of Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/30020836983_0c6d0e542e_c-1200x630.jpg?resize=640%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/30020836983_0c6d0e542e_c.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Trump on Tuesday evening announced that Venezuela will give the United States between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the oil will be sold at market price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America,\u201d Trump said on Truth Social. <\/p>\n<div class=\"tgp-post-inline-1\">\n<div class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States! I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Army\u2019s Delta Force captured Maduro early Saturday morning after President Trump ordered military strikes on the South American country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, Delta Force created an exact replica of Maduro\u2019s safe house and practiced how they would enter and capture him. The CIA had an asset on the ground in Venezuela who infiltrated Maduro\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro was indicted on four counts by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Read the indictment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1422326\/dl\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The grand jury indicted Maduro, his wife, Cilia Flores, and four others on four counts: Narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement comes as The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump will be meeting with major US oil companies such as Chevron and Exxon Mobil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresentatives of Chevron, the only U.S. oil company active in Venezuela; ConocoPhillips; and Exxon Mobil are expected to attend the meeting, alongside other American oil executives, these people said,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/trump-to-meet-oil-executives-friday-to-talk-about-venezuela-40829b0e?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqffWNgvI_8uXYeV3X91HcBjGfz5ENuMWNvr0R6M7KYA5TDmn7jpNHj6JeVT-FY%3D&amp;gaa_ts=695daab1&amp;gaa_sig=Ey-h_fYTR5OC4QZhxL6uFLfQ3kO6qY85MgoA45ZChmfEwHVVB8UMpiWfa4-B6w_70-sxgAQ3WU9zCiGpff_GpQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Venezuelan assets of ConocoPhillips and Exxon were nationalized by former President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in the mid-2000s. A senior White House official previously said Energy Secretary Chris Wright, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, would lead an outreach effort to U.S. oil companies,\u201d The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2026\/01\/rubio-destroys-democrat-hack-george-stephanopoulos-questions-trumps\/\" target=\"_blank\">said <\/a>the US will quarantine Venezuela\u2019s oil until certain favorable conditions are met. <\/p>\n<div class=\"tgp-post-above-comments\">\n<div class=\"adcovery-postbelow-01\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2026\/01\/president-trump-makes-huge-announcement-venezuelan-oil-after\/\">President Trump Makes Huge Announcement on Venezuelan Oil Following Capture of Maduro<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Tuesday evening announced that Venezuela will give the United States between 30 and 50 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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