Sunday Afternoon News Updates — 1/4/26
Watch now Sunday Afternoon News Updates — 1/4/26 Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Jan 4 By Ben Meiselas Trump wanted Sunday morning to be a victory lap. Instead, it turned into a public unraveling. As the reality of his administration’s actions in Venezuela ricocheted across the globe, the response was swift and brutal. From Latin American leaders to faith figures to communities here in the United States, people made clear what they think of a president who openly talks about seizing another country’s oil, sidelining democratic opposition, and cutting deals with authoritarians. Trump’s own words are what lit the fuse. Over and over at his press conference, he said the quiet part out loud: he wants Venezuela’s oil. Not to support will of the Venezuelan people and help free them from regime rule. Oil. The plan, as it has come into focus, appears to leave the machinery of Nicolás Maduro’s regime largely intact, while excluding democratically elected lea...
