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In the days since deposing Nicolas Maduro,
President Trump has given several justifications for his dramatic action in Venezuela.
Number one, the drugs are pouring into the country, you know that?
Number two, the people are pouring into the country were.
But the thing Trump is most focused on, the thing he keeps pointing to as central to his ambitions.
We're going to take back the oil that frankly we should have taken back a long time ago.
Is oil.
We're taking back what was taken from us.
They took our oil industry.
We built that entire oil industry.