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Miles Archer

(21,797 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:08 AM Monday

While Trump DIDN'T INFORM CONGRESS in advance of the Venezuela raid, HE DID NOTIFY THE OIL COMPANIES.

Trump is facing renewed calls for impeachment over his unprecedented attack on Venezuela and failure to notify Congress in advance, but while aboard Air Force One Sunday night he made a startling admission about which group he did inform ahead of the operation.

Trump admitted that he had told oil companies of the operation in advance, and championed them for wanting to “go in” to Venezuela and “do a great job” with securing Venezuela’s oil reserves, the single-largest proven oil reserves on earth.

With Trump having not only not informed Congress of the attack beforehand, including the “Gang of Eight” congressional leaders who are traditionally told of such operations, critics, such as Democratic congressional candidate Fred Wellman, were left floored by the admission.

“I can’t begin to tell you how insane this is,” Wellman, who also hosts the “On Democracy” podcast, wrote Sunday night in a social media post on X to his more than 356,000 followers.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674847444/

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Miles Archer

(21,797 posts)
2. And Obama...or Biden...would have already been impeached, convicted, and removed from office
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:20 AM
Monday

I'm old fashioned, I guess. I see it as anything that would be illegal for Obama or Biden to do would also be illegal for Trump. But thanks to John Roberts and invertebrate Republicans, we know that's not true.

Walleye

(43,834 posts)
3. He doesn't trust the gang of eight, but his own SecDef released battle plants to a journalist
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:52 AM
Monday

And it turns out the journalist was more patriotic because he didn’t publish him before him

Botany

(76,411 posts)
5. Trump is on record in 2023 saying that as President he would seize Venezuelan oil for American ....
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 10:00 AM
Monday

…… oil companies. Time for countries from around the world to pull their Ambassadors from America,
stop trade, and start selling off their U.S. Treasures. Trump and company are committing war crimes.

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