Since last weekend’s capture by U.S. military of Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro, who was wanted on narco-terrorism charges in New York, the leftist media and liberal politicians have been falsely “fact-checking” President Donald Trump’s recent comments that Venezuela “stole” oil assets from the U.S.
On December 16, Pres. Trump announced a blockade of Venezuela “Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us,” referring to Venezuela’s 2007 expropriation of the oil interests of U.S. companies under then-President Hugo Chavez.
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