Stephen Miller, president Trump's White House Deputy Chief of Staff, endorsed the president's claims that Venezuela's oil nationalization constituted a massive theft from the United States, arguing that the expropriation of U.S. energy assets helped finance criminal and terrorist activity tied to the Maduro regime.
In a post on X, Miller said that "American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela," adding that its "tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property." He claimed the assets taken during Venezuela's nationalization of the oil sector were later used "to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs."
