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  • Military action in Venezuela emerges as an issue in a closely watched GOP primary in Kentucky (Massie vs. Gallrein)

    01/09/2026 10:05:44 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 15 replies
    ABC News ^ | January 5, 2026 | Bruce Schreiner
    President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running Trump antagonist, and retired Navy SEAL officer Ed Gallrein, who has the president's backing. Massie, showing his non-interventionist leanings, fired off a series of social media posts criticizing the dramatic action that captured Nicolás Maduro and removed him from the South American country. “Wake up MAGA,” Massie wrote. “VENEZUELA is not about drugs; it’s about OIL and REGIME CHANGE. This is not what we voted for.” Gallrein responded that Massie had “shown...
  • Venezuela is ‘uninvestible’ for now, Exxon CEO tells Trump in White House meeting

    01/09/2026 2:28:13 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 82 replies
    Politico ^ | 01/09/26 | James Bikales
    The head of U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil on Friday told President Donald Trump that Venezuela is “uninvestible” under current conditions, saying major changes were needed before his company would return to the country that has seen its crude oil resources sink into disrepair. The comments by Exxon CEO Darren Woods were a blow to Trump’s hopes that American oil majors would move quickly to make big investments in Venezuela — and cast doubt on the president’s insistence that U.S. companies are prepared to spend $100 billion or more.