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Botany

(77,036 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 08:39 AM 4 hrs ago

Trump and his CITGO owning backer stand to make billions from this war on the Venezuelan Oil that is being

stolen @ gun point by the U.S. Military from the people of Venezuela. Call it what it is and that is
“armed robbery” and the money from the sale of that oil is going to some bank in the Middle East
in an account that is under Donald Trump’s control.

So Trump and Israel’s war in the Middle East will make it harder to get oil from there and so the
price of oil will go up and so will the demand for Venezuelan Oil. Before Trump and Israel’s un-
needed war on the people of Iran the price of oil was @ a point that big oil companies had deemed
it unprofitable to use Venezuelan oil but that might have changed now. And it just so happens
that Trump donor, Paul Singer owns refineries that were built to process Venezuelan heavy crude oil
oil.
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“Paul Singer’s shady purchase of Citgo has everything to do with this coup.”

One of President Donald Trump’s top billionaire donors, who has spent the past several months backing a push for regime change in Venezuela, is about to cash in after the president’s kidnapping of the nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, this weekend.

While he declined to tell members of Congress, Trump has said he tipped off oil executives before the illegal attack. At a press conference following the attack, he said the US would have “our very large United States oil companies” go into Venezuela, which he said the US will “run” indefinitely, and “start making money” for the United States.

In 2024, Singer, an 81-year-old with a net worth of $6.7 billion, donated $5 million to Make America Great Again Inc., Trump’s Super PAC. Singer donated tens of millions more in the 2024 cycle to support Trump’s allies, including $37 million to support the election of Republicans to Congress. He also donated an undisclosed amount to fund Trump’s second transition.

Singer is also a major pro-Israel donor, with his foundation having donated more than $3.3 million to groups like the Birthright Israel Foundation, the Israel America Academic Exchange, Boundless Israel, and others in 2021, according to tax filings.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/paul-singer-venezuela

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“War is a racket.” Smedley Butler.


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Trump and his CITGO owning backer stand to make billions from this war on the Venezuelan Oil that is being (Original Post) Botany 4 hrs ago OP
So there is a plan. C_U_L8R 4 hrs ago #1
And this unneeded war in the Middle East has been in the works since the summer of 2025 or even earlier. Botany 4 hrs ago #2
Verrry Interesting. Bohunk68 4 hrs ago #3

Botany

(77,036 posts)
2. And this unneeded war in the Middle East has been in the works since the summer of 2025 or even earlier.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:13 AM
4 hrs ago

The corruption, scams, and schemes are international in nature and worth millions if not billions
of dollars just like the Epstein, Trump, Vlad, and Musk Child sex trafficking and organized crime
ring.

Bohunk68

(1,455 posts)
3. Verrry Interesting.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:14 AM
4 hrs ago

My local rural county in Upstate NY has several of these Citgo stations in the past 3+ years. They have the lowest gas prices of all the stations and the workers are probably from Pakistan or elsewhere in that area. In view of what is going on, that raises eyebrows as to how their business may go. In this very red county. Going to a Dem county caucus tonight.

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