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This is an excellent point

He’s saying Venezuela owns the funds, but any transfer is subject to U.S. license? Why would they agree to this arrangement?

Rubio apparently has signing authority over the Qatari account, nominally held in custody for. Venezuela. So it’s a lot of layers they’re trying to give, but if the US Treasury has authority US courts can order discovery and transfer.

As protected as El Salvadorian prisoners

I dunno? It presumably depends on whether you think Trump extorted for his own benefit or that of the US. They're just illegal in different ways. Although I don't think the *idea* of the US holding assets on behalf of other sovereigns is unique; I believe we did it in WWII, for example.

Shouldn’t Venezuelans be mentioned First? Just because VZ terminated US Oil companies contracts - & decided to manage their own oil (including with Chevron) — does not mean VZ stole America’s oil as Trump has asserted! The oil has always and Now belongs to Venezuelans!

Well, whether they deserve compensation or not, the oil companies have court judgments or arbitration awards for expropriation. I expect they’ll complain about it.

Good point.

That’s the one!

Yeah that, and so much more

...Through Trumpworld and all the way down to the taxpayer.

I wonder how much of the money will be used to build Trump properties someplace. Moreover, $500 million seems like a too round and exact a number to be believable. Who's buying it and where is the oil currently stored, if the transaction or transactions are real?

Trump had a seizure? Man dont get my hopes up. Its a funnel account obvs.

sounds more like a ploy to prevent VZ from being able to sue (especially in US courts) to get their money...

who did he sell the oil to?

I think he thinks he can retire to Qatar as if he didn’t JUST set the precedent for using military force to abduct fugitives from US law.

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Amazing corruption. Russia can't compete.

Trumps taking a vig like Putin does. While red hat morons eat Walmart hotdogs at $6 a pack.

Because they've been doing so many crypto-grifts recently?

We’ll never know how much money there is and how easy it will be for the felon to get his grubby hands on it whenever he feels like it. The corruption is astounding. And it’s just another Wednesday. This alone would’ve ended every presidency before this.

Worse: the U.S. taxpayer is paying for the attacks.

wtf

Or it’s being held by not so much the US govt but by Trump himself?…

The money (if it’s actually there) is in an offshore account so Trump can line his pockets with it, or distribute it as bribes and favors. No oversight.

Sounds like an ATM for Putin

Strange , the new self appointed leader of Venezuela doesn't trust the united states to hold their funds...hummmm

Sounds like a money laundering scheme.

This stroked out old pedophile rapist, the other rapist (Thomas) in the supreme court, and the rest of these fascist politicians are literally raping the country to death and having us killed. Wtf are we doing?!

"Neutral" is a very weird word in this context. Neutral between whom and whom?

Is Trump afraid that current or future Venezuelan governments would try to get their money back? Trump thinks he will control the money forever? or Trump will personally get the money after he leaves office? Trump could give the $ to Putin if he wanted. How is this legal?!?

Funnel to Netanyahu in Israel who is as corrupt as trump!

Exactly.

From creditors

Total immunity. What a thing to give an amoral criminal.

Trump family offshore accounts. 1what do you think Jared Kushner was doing in Qatar and Saudi Ariba all that time?

But again, who are we to go into a country and take their resources? Is trump taking commission?

Slush fund.

Trump is stealing the oil for his personal enrichment. Which is like wow.

Seizure by Congress, I presume. 🙄

The next administration is going to have to hire more forensic accountants then this administration has hired ICE agents.

www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

Getting a military base in the US doesn't come without favors.

This sounds like a job for @ebharrington.bsky.social

F**k!?!

Wonder if Kushner has a role in directing the investment of these funds. He has some history there and has been known to benefit from the "totally random" movement of gulf-associated money.

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This is a grift!!!

MBS is paying for Venezuela. He's gonna run OPEC personally.

Yep, John Thune, Mike Johnson, GOP in Congress: “yep, that’s cool. Drop by sometime and provide us an update.”

The GOP Senate will not do anything & Trump's personal Attorney General Pam Bondi will do less... www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

Finally, an area where Trump’s business acumen could be applied, at screwing over creditors.

Gonna be in his shitty memecoin if it isn’t already.

It's going directly to Trump

Meanwhile we have ordered the evacuation of all US personnel. Sounds like safe haven to me.

“Flow freely” to where? As if we didn’t know.

Seizure by the US Treasury. We'll never see a dime of that money. It's as good as gone.

wtf!!!! Qatar ?? I bet I know who’s fucked up idea this is. I spoke before n now again. THE 🍊💩 is ripping off the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and too many JUST SIT N WATCH

Correct they mean seizure by Americans in this admin or the next. This isn’t stolen “American” money it’s stolen Trump money.

Scotland says could you take your litter home with you? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pure speculation on my part: If you needed a country with a very ambiguous extradition treaty that specifically exempts extradition for political acts/crimes, and you wanted to ensure your future lifestyle, when your term ends, you’d move to Qatar where you’ve stashed millions.

Heh Don, I am happy to host these funds in my Cornish bank account. Far safer than a US bank, I can keep an eye on it from my bedroom window and it’s next to the pasty shop. I’ll do it for a minimal fee, say 1.5%? Il bung in a gift, say a subscription to a clotted cream by post scheme?

He’s gonna take that money and NO ONE will stop him

To nullify congress' power of the purse, Trump can just appropriate funds from his illegal tariffs and oil sales and fund his own priorities, congress be damned. The king shakes the world for its lunch money to fund his reign of terror.

That was my first thought as well - can't be seized by the U.S. Treasury if Trump were to a) be removed from office; b) leave office in 2028; c) or die (goes to his kids). Can't be seized by anyone but Trump(s). The funny part about that is Qatar is NEVER going to give that money back to Trump.

It's gone. It's a payoff.

So that way if there is an order to take a particular action with the money, they can claim Qatar has it and there’s nothing they can do about that because it’s now a foreign affairs issue and the court has no authority

The money isn’t safer in Qatar. The criminal stashing it there is safer from public exposure this way.

Safer from the American people trying to get their Social Security money back?

It's an in case I get impeached again and have to flee fund.

Yep.

Trump is — literally — robbing us blind. It’s how he bankrupted a casino and why he never took his company private. He takes in wads of cash and spends wads of cash. With no idea whether what’s coming in is more than what’s going out.

That's where they're all headed when this regime fails.

Sounds like US money is more secure in Qatar than innocent Australian women on a plane. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Trump’s personal off shore bank accounts that were approved by the Predator of the United States!

Check the gold at fort Knox! For real this time, since he accuses everyone else of doing what he wants to do. We should check the bathrooms at Mar-a-lago.

Guys, wake up! The capitalists behind Trump do not want any accountability because they need the lack thereof to keep accumulating capital and converting it into power. Join a CP, organise the working class, and seize power. FYI: CPUSA and DSA are growing.

edge of WWIII: US military fleeing Qatar base due to Trump / Republican war threats - even though Trump / Republicans GAVE QATAR a base in IDAHO. #qatar #idaho #trump #departmentofwar #usmilitary #republicans #maga #gop #democrats #usmilitary #usarmy #usairforce #usmarines #usnavy

Just try and stop him. I dare you. Go ahead and file those pretty lawsuits. Somewhere down the line, we might hear a verdict. Both speech and law have failed. Troops are literally breaking down the doors to innocent people's homes and killing them. It's Kristallnacht, and we know what happens next.

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bet that money goes to Russia.

Let me guess, they're all planning to flee to Argentina.

Corruption corruption corruption

It will be interesting to see how much of the money will be returned if ever to the people of Venezuela. Do we know whether the money being held is in Bitcoin?

y'all are just letting the most corrupt among you commit highway robbery. Where. Are. The. Fucking. Headlines???????

I love that this is just repeated by the press without any actual thought. Who would seize the money? How?

more like his personal bank account

“Controlled by the US government(TM)”

He’s stealing that countries money and putting it into his own pocket. This is why he wanted to get rid of the leader, so he could take their oil money. #Venezuela

Oh lol, he's gonna bankrupt the US by Valentine's Day

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social Where is the investigation for this???!

@ebharrington.bsky.social wrote about this. Qatar is a safe zone for corruption.

Also, as I have pointed out before, Qatar has no extradition treaty with the U.S. Expect the Trump family to flee to Qatar in the future. bsky.app/profile/jame...

Looks like we’re paying for that damn jet after all.

Every accusation a confession, of course