China’s reaction to the U.S. seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers shows that President Donald Trump has targeted “the nexus of international criminal corruption,” former Trump National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz told Newsmax on Tuesday.
Fleitz joined retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt on “Wake Up America Early” with host Krysia Lenzo as the panel discussed simultaneous flashpoints: negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and the Trump administration’s stepped-up pressure campaign against Venezuela’s Maduro regime and associated trafficking networks.
Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the administration’s escalating strong-arm tactics on the government in Caracas.
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