Trump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the Oil

“We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,” Donald Trump said when he announced the capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in January. And lo and behold, it has come to pass. Trump announced last week that he had made a deal with Venezuela to develop its oil reserves. Well, not so much a “deal” as a payment by Venezuela of tribute at gunpoint. In a social-media post, Trump announced that the oil “is a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United…