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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuoner Report
weekend edition WRKO, The Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh mate, good morning, Cooner contrary. Okay, my friends. Yesterday
President Trump in a very dramatic announcement, and then this
was followed up by the release of the unclassified video
footage announced to the United States and to the world
(00:31):
that the US Coast Guard, backed by the US Navy,
Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, seized a massive, large
Venezuelan oil tanker right off the coast of Venezuela. And
apparently what we're getting information now, it's been coming out
(00:54):
in little driblets, but there was a seizure warrant issued
by a judge several weeks ago. So I guess they
knew this tanker was going to be on the move
to seize this tanker, which is exactly what they did.
And the reason why they decided to seize the tanker
(01:18):
is because this is a tanker that has been under
US sanctions for many, many years. It is a tanker
that has been shipping elicit either Venezuelan oil or Iranian oil.
It is so sometimes it flies under the Venezuelan flag.
(01:40):
Other times it flies under the Iranian flag. But it
is a Venezuelan tanker and it has been known to
ship oil, sanctioned oil, illegal oil from Venezuela, usually to
communists China or to Hezbollah and terrorist organizations based in Iran.
(02:05):
And so this is a tanker that they have wanted
to get for a very very long time. The troops
executed almost a perfect maneuver. As you know, tensions are
running very high with the Venezuelan government, the authoritarian strongman
Maduro has put his country now on a war footing.
(02:28):
He is anticipating a potential US invasion or even regime change,
missile strikes, ground strikes, land strikes, and so tensions now
are almost at a boiling point. Maduro, in the wake
of the seizure of the oil tanker, has said this
(02:48):
is piracy on the high seas, and he now vows
that he will quote unquote break the teeth of the
North American Empire, meaning the United States, and that there
will be revenge for what President Trump did here. The
Democrats are going ballistic. The media is going ballistic, saying
(03:12):
that Donald Trump is now the akin akin to Jack Sparrow.
If you've seen Pirates of the Caribbean starring Johnny Depp.
They're now claiming that he is a modern day pirate.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He is.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Someone now who is violating the law, flouting the law,
going on the high seas, seizing boats, murdering people like
a modern day Blackbeard. Or the meme they keep using
is on social media in particular, is the Johnny Depp
(03:49):
character Jack Sparrow in that movie franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean,
And so he's now being accused of piracy, of lawlessness,
of gangsterism, and of violating international law. President Trump yesterday
told the stun Press Corps, we have now seized one
(04:11):
of the biggest oil tankers ever off the coast of
Venezuela roll cut one a mic.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Been an interesting day from the same point of news.
As you probably know, We've just seized a tanker on
the coast of Venezuela large tanker, very large, largest one
ever sees actually, and.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Other things are happening.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So you'll be seeing that later and you'll be talking
about that later with some other people.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So in other words, he's saying, look, they're going to
give you all the reasons, the legal the sort of
the legal foundation for why this operation was carried out
and the national security geopolitical necessity of doing this. Clearly,
it's to disrupt now both Venezuela and Iron from being
(05:13):
able to on the black market illicitly ship oil which
is sanctioned, it's illegal to apparently China, and there are
some very there are rogue energy brokers in Asia that
they sell I guess at below market price. They buy
and then they resell at a higher price. Anyway, apparently
(05:34):
that's where this oil was apparently going. It was going
to go, apparently from Venezuela carrying Venezuelan oil to someplace
in China or around China to some of these rogue
energy brokers who were going to buy it. I'm just
making up a figure. You buy for forty five or
fifty bucks a barrel, and you sell it for like
(05:57):
say seventy or seventy five bucks a barrel or whatever
it's going now on the world market. So Trump said, no,
we're putting the squeeze into Maduro. We had our site
set on this tanker for a while. It has been
a sanctioned tanker carrying illicit, illegal oil. We saw our chance,
(06:18):
We made our move Listen now to the president going
back and forth with the reporter, and the reporters asking now,
why why would you do this? This is almost never done,
and the implication is that this smacks of piracy. This
(06:38):
is almost like the eighteenth century or the seventeenth century,
where we're just seizing boats. Now, roll cut one a
a mic.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Thank you. I explained a little more about this beans oil.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And oil tanker, and well, I let the people do it.
But you see the result, and I guess they probably
have released the picture now pretty soon. You'll discuss that
with the appropriate people later on. But no, it received
for very good reason.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So what he's basically saying is, look, we'll give you
all the reasons. I pretty much gave him to you.
But his argument is we're not going to be you know, suddenly,
We're not just going to start seizing boats off the
high seas. This was a large tanker that carried a
ton of oil. It had been doing this for years.
This was illegal oil, sanctioned oil, both from Venezuela and Iran.
(07:35):
There's in nexus now between those two regimes and has
been for a while. Hezbolah has been operating ourselves of
Hesbola operating within Venezuela, and they're helping to facilitate this
illegal oil that they're shipping primarily, as I said, to
either North Korea or China across the high seas. And
(07:57):
now Trump said enough, he got a judge to give
them a seizure warrant, and his navy and Coastguard made
their move. Listen now to President Trump asked by your reporter, well, okay,
what happens to the oil and what happens to the ship,
And as President said, President Trump said, well, we're definitely
(08:19):
keeping the oil. That's for sure. We're seizing all of
that oil.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The ship.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We shall see world cut one B a mic before
we keep it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
When you have to follow the tanker, you know, here
a good news, but just follow the tanker, follow it.
Get a helicopter and follow the tanker. But we're going
to I assume we're going.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
To keep the So we're just we're keeping the oil.
So look, my position on this is very clear. Uh
to me, it's about time we start to enforce our
sanctions against the Maduro regime. Trump is now clearly putting
(09:08):
the screws into Maduro. Look, if they can't sell their
oil on the international black market. If their tankers are
gonna get seized, then there's gonna be no money left
to finance that regime. Trump now is you know, he's
just tightening the screws and tightening the screws and tightening
the screws, and so do I think this is the
(09:30):
action of a pirate. Absolutely not. I think this shows
that he is serious about reasserting American dominance in the
Western hemisphere and about letting Maduro now know that we
are going to put maximum pressure on his regime for
him to step down and stop his narco terrorism that
(09:52):
has been killing tens and tens of thousands of Americans
here in the United States. And so you run sanctioned oil,
you run illegal oil, you're part of an illicit, illegal
shipping network. Those days of Joe Biden are over. We're
gonna enforce these sanctions and we're gonna target these oil tankers. Now.
(10:17):
If the oil revenue drives up, then Maduro's finished. I
mean he's really finished. Yes, he's got drug money coming in,
but you can't finance a country on drug money. You
can line your own pockets as he has, and that
of his cronies yes, with their villas and their homes,
and their yachts and their boats and their cars. But
(10:41):
you can't pay the salaries of the military, the police.
So they are squeezing him and squeezing him and squeezing him.
Now the Democrats are up up in arms saying that
this was illegal, this is the act of a bus,
that Trump is now a modern day pirate. My question
(11:04):
to you, is Trump now a modern day Jack Sparrow,
a modern day Blackbeard? And do you support a decision
to seize the oil and the tanker or not to
seize the oil and the tanker?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You're locked into Boston's bulldozer. The Kooner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuoner Report
weekend edition WRKO, The Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh mate, good morning, Cooner contrary. Okay, my friends. Yesterday
President Trump in a very dramatic announcement, and then this
was followed up by the release of the unclassified video
footage announced to the United States and to the world
(00:31):
that the US Coast Guard, backed by the US Navy,
Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, seized a massive, large
Venezuelan oil tanker right off the coast of Venezuela. And
apparently what we're getting information now, it's been coming out
(00:54):
in little driblets, but there was a seizure warrant issued
by a judge several weeks ago. So I guess they
knew this tanker was going to be on the move
to seize this tanker, which is exactly what they did.
And the reason why they decided to seize the tanker
(01:18):
is because this is a tanker that has been under
US sanctions for many, many years. It is a tanker
that has been shipping elicit either Venezuelan oil or Iranian oil.
It is so sometimes it flies under the Venezuelan flag.
(01:40):
Other times it flies under the Iranian flag. But it
is a Venezuelan tanker and it has been known to
ship oil, sanctioned oil, illegal oil from Venezuela, usually to
communists China or to Hezbollah and terrorist organizations based in Iran.
(02:05):
And so this is a tanker that they have wanted
to get for a very very long time. The troops
executed almost a perfect maneuver. As you know, tensions are
running very high with the Venezuelan government, the authoritarian strongman
Maduro has put his country now on a war footing.
(02:28):
He is anticipating a potential US invasion or even regime change,
missile strikes, ground strikes, land strikes, and so tensions now
are almost at a boiling point. Maduro, in the wake
of the seizure of the oil tanker, has said this
(02:48):
is piracy on the high seas, and he now vows
that he will quote unquote break the teeth of the
North American Empire, meaning the United States, and that there
will be revenge for what President Trump did here. The
Democrats are going ballistic. The media is going ballistic, saying
(03:12):
that Donald Trump is now the akin akin to Jack Sparrow.
If you've seen Pirates of the Caribbean starring Johnny Depp.
They're now claiming that he is a modern day pirate.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He is.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Someone now who is violating the law, flouting the law,
going on the high seas, seizing boats, murdering people like
a modern day Blackbeard. Or the meme they keep using
is on social media in particular, is the Johnny Depp
(03:49):
character Jack Sparrow in that movie franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean,
And so he's now being accused of piracy, of lawlessness,
of gangsterism, and of violating international law. President Trump yesterday
told the stun Press Corps, we have now seized one
(04:11):
of the biggest oil tankers ever off the coast of
Venezuela roll cut one a mic.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Been an interesting day from the same point of news.
As you probably know, We've just seized a tanker on
the coast of Venezuela large tanker, very large, largest one
ever sees actually, and.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Other things are happening.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So you'll be seeing that later and you'll be talking
about that later with some other people.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So in other words, he's saying, look, they're going to
give you all the reasons, the legal the sort of
the legal foundation for why this operation was carried out
and the national security geopolitical necessity of doing this. Clearly,
it's to disrupt now both Venezuela and Iron from being
(05:13):
able to on the black market illicitly ship oil which
is sanctioned, it's illegal to apparently China, and there are
some very there are rogue energy brokers in Asia that
they sell I guess at below market price. They buy
and then they resell at a higher price. Anyway, apparently
(05:34):
that's where this oil was apparently going. It was going
to go, apparently from Venezuela carrying Venezuelan oil to someplace
in China or around China to some of these rogue
energy brokers who were going to buy it. I'm just
making up a figure. You buy for forty five or
fifty bucks a barrel, and you sell it for like
(05:57):
say seventy or seventy five bucks a barrel or whatever
it's going now on the world market. So Trump said, no,
we're putting the squeeze into Maduro. We had our site
set on this tanker for a while. It has been
a sanctioned tanker carrying illicit, illegal oil. We saw our chance,
(06:18):
We made our move Listen now to the president going
back and forth with the reporter, and the reporters asking now,
why why would you do this? This is almost never done,
and the implication is that this smacks of piracy. This
(06:38):
is almost like the eighteenth century or the seventeenth century,
where we're just seizing boats. Now, roll cut one a
a mic.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Thank you. I explained a little more about this beans oil.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And oil tanker, and well, I let the people do it.
But you see the result, and I guess they probably
have released the picture now pretty soon. You'll discuss that
with the appropriate people later on. But no, it received
for very good reason.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So what he's basically saying is, look, we'll give you
all the reasons. I pretty much gave him to you.
But his argument is we're not going to be you know, suddenly,
We're not just going to start seizing boats off the
high seas. This was a large tanker that carried a
ton of oil. It had been doing this for years.
This was illegal oil, sanctioned oil, both from Venezuela and Iran.
(07:35):
There's in nexus now between those two regimes and has
been for a while. Hezbolah has been operating ourselves of
Hesbola operating within Venezuela, and they're helping to facilitate this
illegal oil that they're shipping primarily, as I said, to
either North Korea or China across the high seas. And
(07:57):
now Trump said enough, he got a judge to give
them a seizure warrant, and his navy and Coastguard made
their move. Listen now to President Trump asked by your reporter, well, okay,
what happens to the oil and what happens to the ship,
And as President said, President Trump said, well, we're definitely
(08:19):
keeping the oil. That's for sure. We're seizing all of
that oil.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The ship.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We shall see world cut one B a mic before
we keep it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
When you have to follow the tanker, you know, here
a good news, but just follow the tanker, follow it.
Get a helicopter and follow the tanker. But we're going
to I assume we're going.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
To keep the So we're just we're keeping the oil.
So look, my position on this is very clear. Uh
to me, it's about time we start to enforce our
sanctions against the Maduro regime. Trump is now clearly putting
(09:08):
the screws into Maduro. Look, if they can't sell their
oil on the international black market. If their tankers are
gonna get seized, then there's gonna be no money left
to finance that regime. Trump now is you know, he's
just tightening the screws and tightening the screws and tightening
the screws, and so do I think this is the
(09:30):
action of a pirate. Absolutely not. I think this shows
that he is serious about reasserting American dominance in the
Western hemisphere and about letting Maduro now know that we
are going to put maximum pressure on his regime for
him to step down and stop his narco terrorism that
(09:52):
has been killing tens and tens of thousands of Americans
here in the United States. And so you run sanctioned oil,
you run illegal oil, you're part of an illicit, illegal
shipping network. Those days of Joe Biden are over. We're
gonna enforce these sanctions and we're gonna target these oil tankers. Now.
(10:17):
If the oil revenue drives up, then Maduro's finished. I
mean he's really finished. Yes, he's got drug money coming in,
but you can't finance a country on drug money. You
can line your own pockets as he has, and that
of his cronies yes, with their villas and their homes,
and their yachts and their boats and their cars. But
(10:41):
you can't pay the salaries of the military, the police.
So they are squeezing him and squeezing him and squeezing him.
Now the Democrats are up up in arms saying that
this was illegal, this is the act of a bus,
that Trump is now a modern day pirate. My question
(11:04):
to you, is Trump now a modern day Jack Sparrow,
a modern day Blackbeard? And do you support a decision
to seize the oil and the tanker or not to
seize the oil and the tanker?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You're locked into Boston's bulldozer. The Kooner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
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