Climate hawk Sen. Ed Markey on Tuesday continued his pursuit of information about the exact role President Donald Trump allowed oil companies to play in the administration’s recent military action in Venezuela.
The Massachusetts Democrat pressed three companies — Chevron, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips — to provide any communications they had with the Trump administration about the U.S. military operation in Venezuela and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
“President Trump and his Administration lied about and concealed their plans to attack the territory of, and conduct regime change in, Venezuela, keeping the American public and Members of Congress — who have the sole constitutional power to declare war — in the dark. The only outside entities that appear to have known the truth are oil executives,” Markey wrote in letters to the three companies.
Trump told reporters over the weekend that he had communicated with U.S. oil companies both “before and after” the military operation.
