Donald Trump admits why the U.S. attacked Venezuela: “We’re going to have our very large US oil companies go in”

It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to mention the word everyone had on their mind: oil.

The US President spoke to the media at Mar-a-Lago where he addressed the recent events in Venezuela that saw Nicolás Maduro and his wife taken and put aboard a military ship bound for New York.

He revealed that the United States “is going to run the country until such time as we can carry out a safe, proper and judicious transition. We are going to run the country," adding that “we want peace, liberty and justice for the great people of Venezuela."

“We are there now, and we are going to stay until a proper transition can take place. We are going to run it essentially until a proper transition can take place," he said.

Then came the crunch: “the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust for a long period of time,” he said, “they were pumping almost nothing compared to what they could have. We are going to have our very large oil companies go in, spend billions, fix the oil infrastructure and start making money for the country."

“We’re going to take back the oil we should have taken back a long time ago.”

We’re going to take a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground."

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