{"id":1415629,"date":"2022-04-01T21:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T01:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415629"},"modified":"2022-04-01T21:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T01:44:48","slug":"exclusive-if-russian-oil-is-stained-with-blood-so-is-venezuelan-oil-gaetz-defends-not-voting-to-sanction-russian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-if-russian-oil-is-stained-with-blood-so-is-venezuelan-oil-gaetz-defends-not-voting-to-sanction-russian-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: \u2018If Russian Oil Is Stained With Blood, So Is Venezuelan Oil\u2019: Gaetz Defends Not Voting To Sanction Russian Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-if-russian-oil-is-stained-with-blood-so-is-venezuelan-oil-gaetz-defends-not-voting-to-sanction-russian-oil%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415629&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz defended his decision to vote against the Russian oil ban saying\u00a0\u201cif Russian oil is stained with blood, so is Venezuelan oil [and] so is Iranian oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SEqeecvrq2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exclusive interview<\/a> with the Daily Caller, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/01\/florida-man-charged-extortion-presidential-pardon-matt-gaetz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gaetz<\/a> said he believes \u201cwe miss the mark on who the sanctions hurt,\u201d noting Americans are hurt most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn what places where we\u2019ve had these great sanctions have the despot dictators been removed? If sanctions worked the way they\u2019re supposed to, Venezuela would be the jewel of South America, Cuba would be the Caribbean Garden of Eden, Iran would be like a welcoming place for us all, Saddam would\u2019ve change his behavior, but the reality is the leaders, the corrupt officials, seem to benefit and do okay and then you have people who are starving and desperate and are in bad situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Russian oil is stained with blood, so is Venezuelan oil, so is Iranian oil, we need oil and there are a lot of dictators that we don\u2019t like that sit atop the natural resources we need and that\u2019s something we\u2019re going to have to grapple with,\u201d he added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/29\/matt-gaetz-confronts-fbi-official-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Matt Gaetz Confronts FBI Official On Whereabouts Of Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop, Enters It Into Congressional Record)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/matt-gaetz-newsmax-rittenhouse-intern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gaetz<\/a> announced he would not vote to sanction Russian oil in an op-ed for <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/03\/09\/gaetz-i-wont-vote-to-hike-gas-prices-for-my-constituents-there-are-better-ways-to-squeeze-putins-gangster-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National Pulse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the D.C. uni-party will vote to ban Russian energy imports,\u201d Gaetz wrote. \u201cI will not join them. Biden\u2019s plan to replace Russian oil with Venezuelan or Iranian oil is needlessly foolish. It will make Americans poorer and less safe. My compassion for Ukrainians won\u2019t force my hand to hurt my own people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHard-working Americans shouldn\u2019t have to pay higher gas prices to support Maduro or Khameini over Putin \u2013 especially since Putin and his military get the money either way,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz defended his decision to vote against the Russian oil ban saying\u00a0\u201cif Russian oil is stained with blood, so is Venezuelan oil [and] so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}