Good discussion today with European leaders on our support to Ukraine, its security, and the reconstruction of the country.

Ultimately, the prosperity of a free Ukrainian state lies in the accession to the EU.

It’s also a key security guarantee in its own right.

Accession doesn’t only benefit countries that join; as the successive waves of enlargement show, the whole of Europe benefits.

We know that Trump bombed a factory in Maracaibo; we fear they (ELN) mix coca paste there to make it cocaine and take advantage of Maracaibo's location by the sea.

It's simply the ELN. The ELN is allowing, with its trafficking and its mental dogma, the invasion of Venezuela.

Trump has been made to believe that I'm a front man for Maduro, and that's where his latest references to me come from.

I thought American intelligence was more professional, or that, being so, the President of the US doesn't listen to it and surrounds himself with greedy far-right folks who don't seek the truth.

I don't know if Maduro has illegally extracted riches from Venezuela; in our country, there's no proof of drug trafficking on his part.

The generals we confirmed were negotiating cocaine were in the sedition with support from the Colombian government, seeking a coup in Caracas.

By now, the professional investigators in the US should have confirmed that neither I nor my close family members have assets outside the country or in Colombia, other than my house, which I'm still in debt on.

Even the New York Times has already published an article saying they haven't found any proof against me to keep me on the OFAC list.

What a blunder by the US government.

My last phone conversation with Maduro was about how to jointly strike the ELN on the border.

I am a free man and always will be, and I don't care about the greed.

We've battered them (Hamas). I mean, they were part of this larger Iranian axis, and we had a seven-front war with Iran and its proxies, and we achieved great things.

And against Iran, with President Trump's help and what he calls the "Beautiful "B1s"—they are incredible machines, and only America has them, and only America had President Trump to send them.

So we accomplished great things, but we still have things to finish.

One of the things we have to finish is to get Hamas disarmed, and President Trump couldn't have been more explicit on that. That's part of the deal. That's part of their commitment.

They have to get rid of these — they still have 20,000 fighters. We've obliterated a lot.

They're all armed with Kalashnikov rifles, and they execute the Palestinians who resist them. So you've got, altogether, 60,000 assault rifles.

That's disarming them, you know, and we'll get it. We'll do it.

We changed the Middle East. We've had an unbelievable success and degraded Iran, which was a first-rate power, and now it's a second-rate or third-rate power.

They were throwing their weight all over the place, exporting terrorism not only to every part of the Middle East but also to Venezuela. They're in cahoots with the Maduro regime.

They're exporting terrorism to America and to the American hemisphere, and then they want these Hezbollah and Hamas to get their guys into the United States.

Iran and its proxies are a threat not only to us but to all, to Israel, to all of America's allies in the Middle East, and to America itself.

I think we've dealt with devastating blows, but there's still some work to be done with the proxies, and we're doing it.

I wouldn't eliminate the possibility of arms shipments from Iran to Venezuela.

I think President Trump is showing remarkable leadership facing up to that threat here, supporting your fighting ally, Israel, to fight not only for our interests but also for American interests against these radical Muslims who basically chant "Death to America," and they mean it.

And so we have to make sure they don't have the means to do it or the will to do it, and that's what we're doing.

They're going through it for a very simple reason. This tyrannical regime has oppressed the people of Iran.

They're a great people, enormously gifted with a great past, and they could have a great future, but this future has been taken over, really hijacked by these theological thugs, the mullahs and the ayatollahs on top of them.

What did they do? They took the billions that they had and put them chasing nuclear weapons and proxy terror groups instead of giving it to the people, so the people don't have food, they don't have electricity, they don't have water.