Trump says U.S. oil companies will invest billions of dollars in Venezuela after Maduro’s overthrow

President Donald Trump on Saturday said U.S. oil companies will invest billions of dollars in Venezuela’s energy sector after the overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro. 

“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies — the biggest anywhere in the world — go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure,” Trump said in a press conference from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

“Let’s start making money for the country,” Trump said.

U.S. forces captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a large scale attack on the South American nation overnight. They have been indicted on drug-trafficking charges in the Southern District of New York.

Trump said the U.S. will “run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.”