“”” Look, here’s the truth. We’re going after Venezuelan oil right now because we’ve just put a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela — huge move, unprecedented — after we seized a sanctioned tanker off their coast. We’re cutting off Maduro’s cash cow, because that oil money funds drug trafficking, corruption, narco-terrorism — we’ve labeled them a terrorist regime.

People say “why target the oil?” I say because that’s where the power is. You choke off the revenue, you cripple the bad guys and protect America. We’re tough, we’re smart, and we put America First. “””