Trump downplays Venezuelan airspace ‘closure’ after Maduro phone call

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President Donald Trump was mum on recent developments with Venezuela on Sunday, even after he declared its airspace “closed” and spoke with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Trump spoke to the press aboard Air Force One a day after he said the airspace over and around Venezuela is now “closed in its entirety,” a major escalation in the United States’s pressure tactics on the regime.

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