Trump said Putin was 'not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela, other than he’d like to see something positive happen.'
President Donald Trump has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no desire to interfere in Venezuela, despite U.S. administration officials recently blaming Moscow for stepping in to support the socialist leader that Washington was trying to kick out of office.
When Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro came out on top Tuesday after U.S.-endorsed opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for a military uprising, Bolton and Pompeo blamed Moscow for keeping the government in power. Pompeo went as far as to say that Maduro"had an airplane on the tarmac, he was ready to leave" to Cuba, but"the Russians indicated he should stay"—a narrative that seemed to conflict with Trump's statement on Friday.
Responding to Pompeo's accusations, the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. of waging an "information war" and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned"that the continuation of aggressive steps would be fraught with the most serious consequences. On Thursday, Moscow's top diplomat added that he would"mobilize a group of states that, like us, respect the U.N. Charter to counter such schemes.
"The United States will not tolerate foreign military interference in the Western Hemisphere," Bolton added in a follow-up tweet following Trump's remarks."President Trump has made it clear that there will be costs for those who further Maduro’s usurpation and repression." After a conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump tweeted that he was pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, a move that reportedly caught the administration off guard. Bolton, however, continued to affirm that the U.S. was not leaving until the defeat of ISIS and that Iran's presence remained a top-priority threat.
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