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This
concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, on
the fifth anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
Here are the latest developments:
Donald
Trump made a stunning announcement that the interim authorities in Venezuela,
who apparently now serve at his pleasure, will let him sell between $1.8 and
$3bn worth of their country’s oil, which made real a fantasy the president has
been sharing in public for at least 15 years, about using the US military to
“take the oil” of conquered nations.
Trump is
actively discussing options for “acquiring Greenland”, including the use of the
US military, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said.
Mark
Carney, the Canadian prime minister, stressed at a meeting with his Danish
counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, that “the future of Greenland and Denmark” must
be “decided solely by the people of Denmark and Greenland.”
Senator
Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat and former marine who fought in Iraq, called
the news that Trump is considering an invasion of Greenland “INSANE” and called
for Congress to block it.
Venezuela’s
acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, hardened her tone against the United States
on Tuesday, saying in a televised address that “no external agent governs
Venezuela”. Hours later, Trump announced that the interim government was giving
him up to 50 million barrels of its oil.
The
secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told lawmakers that the president was just
using threats of military action in Greenland to convince Denmark to sell the
territory to the United States, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Lars
Løkke Rasmussen, the foreign minister of Denmark, told reporters that he hopes
to meet Rubio soon, with his Greenlandic counterpart, to try to correct what he
called the false information Trump has spread about Greenland.
Senators
Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, and Thom Tillis, a North Carolina
Republican, issued a bipartisan statement urging Trump to accept that
“Greenland is not for sale”.
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