Q&A: John Bolton on Trump’s Venezuelan oil grab

During the first Trump administration — when Bolton served as Trump’s national security adviser — Trump and other White House officials often talked about taking Venezuela’s oil, Bolton said. White House officials even reached out to the oil refiners on the Gulf Coast, which process the thick Venezuelan crude, to see how their business would be affected, Bolton added. At the time, Bolton was supportive of the idea — and was among those pushing to depose Maduro in Trump’s first term. But now he says he is concerned Trump has no plans for what comes next in Venezuela. “There’s no…