Media: "Trump wanted to invade Venezuela, the advisers have deterred him"

NEW YORK – At a meeting in the oval studio last August devoted to sanctions imposed on Venezuela, US President Donald Trump asked his advisers whether a military invasion of the South American nation was possible. The president's idea, according to reports from Associated Press reporter Joshua Goodman on Twitter, shocked former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the former security advisor National HR McMaster, both present at the meeting

It was General McMaster's job, according to a US administration official, to explain to the commander-in-chief that an armed action in Venezuela against the President Nicolas Maduro would jeopardize US relations with other allied nations in Latin America. Despite the advice of its cabinet experts, Trump once again examined the possibility of a military option on August 11th. According to the report of the agency, the president reportedly said: "We are all over the world with our military, even in very remote places, Venezuela is not far away and people there are suffering and die

options in Venezuela, including a possible military option if necessary ". Trump's hypothesis was also discussed with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and then with four other South American leaders at the UN General Assembly held last September. In spite of everything, however, the presidential advisers had succeeded in deterring him