President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters on Friday that reports indicating Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro was offering the United States access to the nation’s natural resources in exchange for being allowed to continue indefinitely in power were correct.

“He has offered everything,” Trump responded to a reporter asking him to comment on the rumors of Maduro and his highest-level cronies reaching out to his administration. “He’s offered everything; you’re right.”

“You know why? Because he doesn’t want to fuck around with the United States,” the president affirmed, concluding the press engagement on that note.

President Trump was taking questions on Friday as part of a meeting in the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in town to discuss ef

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