Franco Ordoñez

Look, this was not just foreign intervention.

This was me trying to recapture, in his words, kind of

U.S.

stolen oil and bring back it to the United States and also say this is the beginning of what is to come.

Even Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary, said yesterday, we have a lot of plans, a lot of things are happening, and this is just the first step.

Yeah, I can.

I mean, this dates back all the way back to, you know, before Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

It goes back to Hugo Chavez years back in the mid 2000s when he was elected leader of Venezuela.

Well, one of the things that he did was he nationalized oil.

Some of these, at least, were some U.S.

oil companies that were essentially kicked out.

And there has been some involvement in U.S.

oil companies.

Chevron just came back, you know, during the Biden years, allowed to reenter the market.

You know, I think Trump is using this largely for political purposes, though, as his supporters are very concerned about involvement and, you know, foreign issues.

This is a way of kind of making a statement about domestic interests.

Well, I mean, I think a big issue, I mean, is President Trump has said that he is going to control that money and he is going to use it, he says, to help Venezuelans as well as help U.S.

interests.

But it's actually gotten a lot of pushback from Democrats saying,

Because this is kind of money that's coming from these type of things.