.MaddowBlog: On Venezuela, Pres. Trump sides with Putin over his own team.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 5/3/19, 11:31 PM ET Trump contradicts top aides with reversal after Putin phone call Rachel Maddow reports on a Friday phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, first reported by Russian media, and Trump’s declaration of Russia’s benign intentions toward Venezuela contradicting the significantly more antagonistic perspectives share tweet email save Embed A few months ago, Axios had an interesting report on Donald Trump’s perspective on Venezuela,...
TRUMP: Yeah, I had a very good talk with President Putin – probably over an hour. And we talked about many things. Venezuela was one of the topics. And he is not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela other than he’d like to see something positive happen for Venezuela. KARL: What does he mean the Russians – that Putin does not want to get involved in Venezuela? Aren’t they already deeply involved in supporting Maduro?
POMPEO: Yeah, I didn’t see the full context of the quote there. I don’t know what context that was in.
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