Trump sidestepped a question about why he declined to install the man the U.S. declared the winner of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Edmundo González. González was essentially a proxy candidate for the lead opposition leader, María Machado.
x.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/…Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews)Trump said he expected the US would be running Venezuela and extracting oil from its reserves for years, and insisted that the interim government of the country— all former loyalists to Nicolás Maduro — is “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.”nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/po…— https://x.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/2009258475222610005
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) Jan 8, 2026
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