Trump rejects comparisons between Iraq, Venezuela: “The difference … is that Bush didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the oil,”
Trump rejects comparisons between Iraq, Venezuela: “The difference … is that Bush didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the oil,”
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President Trump on Monday dismissed comparisons between past U.S. involvement in Iraq and the recent military operation in Venezuela, saying the difference is that the Trump administration plans to keep the seized oil from Venezuela.
“The difference between Iraq and this is that [former President George W. Bush] didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the oil,” Trump said, according to MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough, who detailed his conversation with the president.
“In 2016, I said we should have kept the oil. It caused a lot of controversy. Well, we should have kept the oil,” Trump continued, as recalled by the “Morning Joe” host. “And we’re going to rebuild their broken-down oil facilities, and this time we’re going to keep the oil.”