To 'run' Venezuela, Trump presses existing regime to kneel

Top officials in the Trump administration clarified their position on "running" Venezuela after seizing its president, Nicolás Maduro, over the weekend, pressuring the government that remains in power there Sunday to acquiesce to U.S. demands on oil access and drug enforcement, or else face further military action.

Their goal appears to be the establishment of a pliant vassal state in Caracas that keeps the current government — led by Maduro for more than a decade — largely in place, but finally defers to the whims of Washington after turning away from the United States for a quarter-century.

It leaves little room for the ascendance of Venezuela's democratic opposition, which won the country's last national election, according to the State Department, European capitals and international monitoring bodies.

President Trump and his top aides said they would try to work with Maduro's handpicked vice president and current interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, to run the country and its oil sector "until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition," offering no time frame for proposed elections.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/run-venezuela-trump-presses-existing-202558349.html

As I said earlier, the dumbass has had his ass kissed too much by his own sycophants.