“If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” Trump said. President Trump and Republicans did what we said we would do. In December, the US government seized a Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, considered by some analysts to be an act of piracy. Trump then said that the US would keep or sell the seized Venezuelan oil. Murphy equated the US attacks on Venezuela and the abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to other US wars in other parts of the world.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2026 13:44 UTC