Election Crimes Bulletin: How an axis of awful is blocking oil from Venezuela

Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil on the planet. If you
look at OPEC, they put Saudi Arabia as number two. Venezuela's
producing very little oil, not even enough for its own needs at
this moment, when it was producing 3.2 million barrels of oil a day
— 2 million barrels a day for export. If we unleash oil from
Venezuela, then Putin's profit from the invasion evaporates. Putin
is earning roughly, by my calculation, a billion dollars a day
windfall from the sales of oil and gas, at prices which today hit
about $118 a barrel, with natural gas going up an equal amount. So,
Venezuela is the way to stop Putin's tanks, it's that simple.
Chevron say that within three months they could bring 800,000
barrels of oil a day to the US from Venezuela, all they need is
Biden to lift the Trump embargo. That 800,000 barrels a day, by the
way, equals the maximum amount of oil that the US gets from Russia.
This deadly embargo of Venezuela was imposed by Donald Trump. Why
is Biden continuing with Trump's policies, which right now are
enriching Putin, by keeping 2 million barrels of oil a day off the
market? Keep in mind, Venezuela has invaded no one, attacked no
one, and they’ve got a president that was elected, even if our
State Department isn’t exactly a fan of Nicolás Maduro. And while
Biden is celebrating the fact he got Europe to cancel the Nord
Stream 2 pipeline, which wasn’t in operation anyway, they’re still
taking 1.9 trillion cubic feet of gas a year from Nord Stream 1.
That 1.9 trillion cubic feet a year, which Russia provides through
Nord Stream 1, can be replaced 100% by Venezuela, which according
to the US Energy Information Administration is capable of over 2
trillion cubic feet of gas production a year for export. They could
send this as liquid natural gas to Europe, and completely replace
what they get from Nord Stream 1. But we're not doing it, and
here's why… It’s being blocked by an axis of awful, which includes
two powerful Democrats. One is Bob Menendez, the Senator from New
Jersey who's the only sitting senator who's ever had unanimous
censure by the Senate Ethics Committee for corruption. And the
other is Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was deeply involved in an
illegal scheme to move Democratic National Committee money to the
Hillary Clinton campaign. Meanwhile Charles Koch is refusing to
shutter his operations in Russia, and is using his power and
influence to stop any oil flowing out of Venezuela. And, by the
way, the Kochs also funded the Clinton administration, which helped
put Putin in power. Here’s the thing; when you corrode and corrupt
democracy, it has consequences.