Joe Concha praises Trump’s perspective that ‘energy is the whole ballgame’

Published January 8, 2026 10:02am ET



Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha applauded President Donald Trump’s effort to “lower the cost of everything in terms of energy.”

Concha appeared on Fox News’s Kudlow Wednesday, hours after the United States European Command announced it had seized the Bella 1, a sanctioned oil tanker it has been pursuing since December. This followed the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, which resulted in the U.S. selling Venezuelan oil “indefinitely,” according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. 

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