Murdoch Paper Trashes Trump’s ‘Executive Account’ Oil-Grabbing Plot

Alex Wong/Getty Images The Rupert Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal has lashed out at Donald Trump’s plans to use Venezuelan oil money as his own piggy bank. The paper’s editorial board questioned why the president appears to view oil revenue as his “personal executive account” and why such an approach would be the best option for stabilizing the South American country. Trump launched a surprise attack on Venezuela and abducted its leader, Nicolás Maduro, to face “narco-terrorism charges” in New York City. Since then, Trump has sparked chaos and confusion by suggesting the U.S. will now “run” Venezuela for an unspecified period of time , including controlling the country’s state-run oil production. Read more at The Daily Beast.