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We're on it: https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-us-official-trump-pressed-aides-about-venezuela-invasion-2018-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-us-official-trump-pressed... > The US official said Trump was specifically briefed not to raise the issue and told it wouldn't play well, but the first thing the president said at the dinner was, "My staff told me not to say this." Trump then went around asking each leader if they were sure they didn't want a military solution… > For Maduro, who has long claimed that the US has military designs on Venezuela and its vast oil reserves, Trump's bellicose talk provided the unpopular leader with an immediate if short-lived boost as he was trying to escape blame for widespread food shortages and hyperinflation… > A few weeks after Trump's public comments, Harvard economics professor Ricardo Hausmann, a former Venezuelan planning minister, wrote a syndicated column titled "D Day Venezuela," in which he called for a "coalition of the willing" made up of regional powers and the US to step in and support militarily a government appointed by the opposition-led national assembly.