Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado<\/a>, sat behind him, still in its frame, leaned up against the base of a statue of a golden eagle.<\/p>\nTrump said he was still weighing where to hang it in the White House.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, he noted the oil from Venezuela is in American refineries being processed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe oil\u2019s coming into the refineries in Houston, in various places.\u201d<\/p>\n
The US plans to sell up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil at a market price.\u00a0<\/p>\n
View of an oil tanker in Venezuela. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are running the oil in Venezuela,\u201d Trump said. \u201cVenezuela is going to get some, and we\u2019re going to get some. Then we have the big oil companies going in, and they\u2019ll be taking so much oil that Venezuela will make more money than they\u2019ve ever made before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since the ouster of Venezuela President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid on Jan. 3, the Trump administration has sought to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela\u2019s crude.<\/p>\n
The president met with oil company executives earlier this month to discuss investing $100 billion in Venezuela to repair and upgrade its oil industry.<\/p>\n
Trump gestures behind his desk during the interview. Tamara Beckwith \/ NY Post<\/p>\n
Officials want to use the money from the seized tankers as part of the rebuilding efforts.<\/p>\n
The president has suggested the US government would reimburse American oil companies for resuscitating Venezuela\u2019s energy industry.<\/p>\n
Trump told The Post he\u2019s happy with interium President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a great relationship with the new president,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s been terrific.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 President Trump said the U.S. has taken the Venezuela oil aboard seven recently-seized tankers \u2014 but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,36777,9,11,10,58],"class_list":["post-111043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}