Oh, remember that Venezuelan oil money...

[deminks]

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T20:32:23.760Z

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. https://www.semafor.com/article/01/14/2026/us-gets-first-500-million-venezuelan-oil-deal-holding-some-proceeds-in-qatar

End snip.

Maybe he's saving it for Venezuela's Infrastructure Day.

[orangecrush]

1. Just another grift

Among the nonstop grift.

[erronis]

2. Right. Want to see the records? Sue him. Take it to the Supremes.

Haven't we seen this con played out for a few decades by the same imbecile? (Maybe he ain't as dump as he acts.)

[Skittles]

3. grifting POS

[Javaman]

4. and under his name I bet. nt

[ChicagoTeamster]

5. Saving it for when he launches a crypto exchange with Jared and his Qatari partners

Probably after taking control of Iranian oil.

[Wiz Imp]

6. Blatantly unconstitutional

[Horse with no Name]

7. I think most of us are clinging to the fact

That we still have a Constitution, however, that has long been shredded and we are operating under the whims of a maniacal megalomaniac.

[Wiz Imp]

10. I know. I still think it's important to point out every single time Trump does something unconstitutional.

[NHvet]

12. What has this regime done

that is? Constitution? We don't need no stinkin Constitution,

[byronius]

8. Gosh, he's not a real crime boss yet!

Or is he?

As far as we know he hasn’t taken a baseball bat to an underperforming subordinate’s head yet. Right?

[jayschool2013]

9. Barron's college fund

The Saudi School for Young Oligarchs and Dictators isn't cheap, y'know.

[surrealAmerican]

11. There's a word for that:

looting.

[Warpy]

13. Secondary sites are reporting that gold bars and hard currencies

were found in that "empty" shadow fleet tanker the US Navy chased across the Atlantic before capturing it.

Word on some sites is that the gold was in the form of "nonstandard" bars, possibly signifying sand casting at the point of origin, possibly the illegal gold mines in he Venezuelan mountains wel known to exist.

I dunno but there had to be some reason that tanker ran and the Russians were so interested in getting it and whatever it carried.

If true, was Maduro planning to follow his money to Russia? Or was this payment for all the Russian anti aircraft gear that didn't work? If it was the latter, was Maduro the source of the information about what was on that "empty" ship? Spite can be a good motivator.

It makes sense, more sense than any of the other theories out there. What we do know is that the captain of that ship was willing to risk doing a lot of things to get it back to Russia and that Russia was equally eager to get it back, up to threatening the US Navy with sending in a sub as an escort. If there is one thing Putin is running short of these days, it's cash, so it makes sense.

[malaise]

14. How the eff do you just steal a country and its resources?

This is madness