{"id":683389,"date":"2026-01-09T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683389\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:52:14","slug":"live-updates-trump-administration-reveals-plans-for-venezuela-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683389\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump administration reveals plans for Venezuela, oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vice<\/p>\n

\n Vice President JD Vance on Thursday insisted he was involved in the planning for the US operation to depose Nicolas Maduro.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo, I\u2019ve heard a couple of things \u2013 one that I was kept out of the planning for the Venezuela operation, that\u2019s false,\u201d he said at a White House briefing. \u201cAnd another, that [Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard] was kept out of the planning for Venezuela operations. That\u2019s completely false.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Vance went on to defend the operation and the way it was planned. \u201cLook, we\u2019re all part of the same team, and one of the things that is really amazing about that operation is that we kept it very tight to the senior Cabinet-level officials and related officials in our government, and we kept this operation secret for a very long time. I\u2019m very proud of that,\u201d he added.\n <\/p>\n

\n The vice president seemed to be responding to a New Yorker piece earlier this week<\/a>, which noted Vance was not present in photos showing members of the president\u2019s national security team at Mar-a-Lago during the Venezuela operation.\n <\/p>\n

\n Reflecting on his role in the administration, Vance said he planned to do \u201cwhatever the president asks me to do.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cEvery other day, I\u2019m chairing the meeting that we do among White House principals to talk about next steps to try to ensure that Venezuela is stable, and as the president has directed us to do, to ensure that the new Venezuelan government actually listens to the United States and does what the United States needs it to do under our country\u2019s best interest,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo, I\u2019m going to be as involved as the president wants me to be \u2014 so far that\u2019s been very involved, and I\u2019ll keep on doing that, so long as the president asks me to do it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance on Thursday insisted he was involved in the planning for the US operation to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-683389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115862407938483918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}