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“Venezuela” said in 187 of 667 transcripts, 660 times.
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Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…members, drug dealers, people—oh, jails being emptied out into our country. Venezuela emptied out its— almost its entire prison population into our country. But…
Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a "pack." Some of these packs come out of the jails of Venezuela. They come from places that you don't want to know about. They're…
Jun 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…people that we don't want to—we have prisoners. They emptied out—Venezuela and many countries, they emptied out their prisons into the United States…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…jails of countries from all over the world—from the Congo, from Venezuela, from all over the place. They emptied out. There's just—many of…
May 30, 2025 Press conference 1 time
…people from prisons all over the world? Not just from South America, Venezuela—all over the world, from the Congo in Africa. Hundreds of people…
May 21, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…a big case. We're allowed to send back hundreds of criminals to Venezuela. Just won that today in the Supreme Court, I'm happy to hear…
May 6, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…institutions, from all sorts of places that weren't good—from gangs from Venezuela. They were coming in, and they were criminals and murderers—11,888…
May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and terrorists and people from jails. They emptied out jails. You know, Venezuela, their crime is down 72 percent because they took all the criminals…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…that these vicious gangs have been sent by the foreign regime in Venezuela to foment violence and instability in the United States of America. Can't…
Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…They came in from mental institutions. They came in from gangs in Venezuela and other countries all over the world, not just South America. They…
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…allowed open borders and people to come in—if you look at Venezuela, their crime is down by 72 percent. You know why? They took…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…Congo. And all over the world, they came in, opened their jails. Venezuela— practically all of their prisoners released into our country. And we took…
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…from mental institutions, and they came from gangs and—the gangs of Venezuela and other places. And hundreds of thousands and even millions of them…
…Jails—the jails of the Congo were emptied out. The jails of Venezuela were emptied out. And you know what happened? Their crime went way…
…to him. They know what to do. But they have no money. Venezuela has no money. But Iran had no money. And Iran behaved so…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of the sanctions. They—nobody could buy oil. We did that to Venezuela just recently, and we'll do it to other countries if we have…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…take over; they want these people coming back. Tren de Aragua from Venezuela, the Venezuela jails, that cut off the fingers of a man in…
Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…if I thought he wasn't doing the job. I did it with Venezuela—secondary tariffs—and you know what happened? Every boat left the harbor…
Mar 30, 2025 Other 4 times
…them. You know, we put secondary tariffs on, as you know, in Venezuela, and it's had a very strong impact on Venezuela. You know that…
…on, or they didn't want me to see them there. So the Venezuela secondary tariffs—all secondary tariffs are very strong, because essentially it says…
…America, and that's the cash cow. So, if—in the case of Venezuela, as you know, China pulled up anchor and left. They were there…
Mar 27, 2025 Tele-rally 1 time
…reparations. He'd end all of the sanctions on communist Cuba and socialist Venezuela. And he wants to decriminalize heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine. And we have…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…day. But today, as you know, we did something with respect to Venezuela. You heard about that. And that will be quite important. We'll be…
…case, call me. Yes. That's right. If they buy their oil from Venezuela, then they have to pay a 25-percent tariff to do business…
Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…of like nobody's ever seen. And you saw what happened today with Venezuela. We did something with Venezuela which is long in the making, and…
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…international, in that sense. They're a group of thugs. They come from Venezuela. They come from the prisons of Venezuela. They're very, very dangerous people…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from Venezuela, released into America by the last administration through their ridiculous open border…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…that during the Biden administration. They never said it during my administration. Venezuela has taken them back. They were all—Colombia has taking them back…
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…just didn't use it. Can you imagine? Biden set us up in Venezuela instead of taking ours, so that we go to Venezuela where they'd…
…have more under our feet than anybody else. But we went to Venezuela to buy oil instead of taking it from our own land and…
…taken it, instead of all of the problems. And then we made Venezuela strong again. You know, they've given them a lot of money. They…
Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…They're taking them back. They know we're not playing games. You remember Venezuela saying it: "We're not taking them back. Don't even waste your time…
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…countries. Yes, go ahead, please. Yes. Sure. Well, you know, we had Venezuela on the run, and it looked like that was going to be…
…Government—in the United States Government that are involved in that. And Venezuela is a little bit early. But you know, we were not buying…
…gold—we have more than anybody—they started paying a fortune to Venezuela. And we're looking at that actually. Why did they do that? Why…
Feb 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…country—this is what they're doing. When you allow gang members from Venezuela, but many other countries, coming into our country. We're getting them all…
Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…from all over the country but really from all over the world. Venezuela let out so many people. You know, their crime rate is down…
Feb 7, 2025 Press conference 1 time
…for the United States, but we haven't used it. We go to Venezuela, we go to other places to take oil and gas, and we…
Feb 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…things to me. They said they wouldn't take the—anybody back in Venezuela, and right now they're flying them right back into Venezuela, and lot…
Feb 2, 2025 Other 2 times
…had a very busy weekend. We got the six hostages out of Venezuela, as you probably know, and they're very safe right now. They're home…
…a lot of people, including Ric Grenell. We appreciate the cooperation from Venezuela. And we have some very happy people right now. Nobody thought that…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…whatever may be existing. Yep. No, we want to do something with Venezuela. We've been—I've been a very big opponent of Venezuela and Maduro…
…lot of different people. But we're—we are for the people of Venezuela. We're for the Venezuelan Americans. If you look at it, we have…
…around the Doral area. That's where—that's really— they call it "Little Venezuela," right? And they voted for me close to a hundred percent. So…
Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…everybody that's bad is going to be thrown—if you look at Venezuela, Venezuela's crime is down 77 percent because they've taken their gang members…
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…You'll see crime all over the country dry up. Essentially, that's what Venezuela and other countries are doing. They're getting rid of their criminals and…
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…going down by 10 and 15 and 20 percent every 6 months? Venezuela, their crime rate is down by 74.2 percent because they took…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Stranger things have happened. Say it? Well, we're going to see on Venezuela. We're looking at Venezuela very strongly. It's a country I know very…
…about that too, because we're going to probably stop buying oil from Venezuela. We don't need their oil. Well, it could be, but we don't…
…oil. We have plenty of oil for ourselves, so—— That will change Venezuela quite a bit. No. No. I can't imagine even being called that…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…streets of Venezuelan and deposit in our country, and many—not just Venezuela. You know, crime in Venezuela is down 74 percent because they took…