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Thu Jun 20, 2019, 11:49 PM Jun 2019

Trump Wanted Venezuela to Be an Easy Win. When It Wasn't, He Checked Out.

President Donald Trump’s attention span isn’t exactly the stuff of folklore. His briefings have to be bullet-pointed. NATO officials once mandated a four-minute rule on speeches so the president wouldn’t drift off. Cable news seems to be the only thing that can hold his attention for an extended period of time.

So it’s not entirely surprising that Trump has reportedly lost interest in the crisis in Venezuela, a once-key issue for the White House. With Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro still in power months after his supposed ouster, “the president, officials said, is losing both patience and interest in Venezuela,”.

The Trump administration joined other nations in backing opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself interim president. But the U.S. president reportedly grew frustrated when Guaidó’s call for an uprising went unanswered on April 30.

Trump is apparently ticked off that he didn’t get an easy win in Venezuela. An unnamed former official told the Post that Venezuela was “always thought of . . . as low-hanging fruit” on which Trump “could get a win and tout it as a major foreign policy victory. Five or six months later . . . it’s not coming together,” the official added

And while Trump did talk about the crisis in a press gaggle last week, he blamed Biden-Obama (?) for the crisis.
“It's been brewing for many years. It really started, in the worst form, during the Biden-Obama administration. But it's been brewing for a long time.”

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/ywykq5/trump-wanted-venezuela-to-be-an-easy-win-when-it-wasnt-he-checked-out

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Trump Wanted Venezuela to Be an Easy Win. When It Wasn't, He Checked Out. (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jun 2019 OP
trump is easy to out wait Gothmog Jun 2019 #1
So, even with Adderal he's attention deficit. SharonAnn Jun 2019 #2
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