Ep. 2332 - US SEIZES Venezuelan Tanker!

The Ben Shapiro Show

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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1:00.2	Plus Christmas deal right now at DailyWire.com. So the big news of the day is that the United States
1:05.7	has now seized a very large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. President Trump announced this yesterday.
1:12.5	He announced that the United States had pursued the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker.
1:16.5	It was headed to Cuba. Attorney General Pambandi said the U.S. Coast Guard, the FBI, and Homeland Security
1:21.2	investigations executed that seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport oil from Venezuela and Iran in defiance of
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