Trump spent years calling Venezuela a socialist hellhole. Now he’s buying their oil at a discount and calling it a gift. The man who sanctions countries for breakfast cut a deal for 65 billion barrels of crude from the very government he said he’d squeeze until it collapsed. The price: $30 a barrel, less than a third of market value. The catch: his own officials told House Republicans behind closed doors that none of this oil will hit U.S. gas pumps before November 3.
Gas is at $4.09 a gallon, up 27% from last year, mostly because his Iran standoff torched the global supply chain. So the fix for a crisis he started is one tanker from Caracas and a press conference. One million barrels. That barely covers an hour of what America burns through in a day.
Six days until the midterms. The gift is for the cameras. Your gas bill is still yours.