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7 striking revelations buried in secret text of Trump's 'biggest oil deal' in history

President Donald Trump’s Pentagon will buy into a Venezuelan billionaire’s oil company for a penny a share, the investors behind it may never be named, and the whole arrangement was designed to keep the next president from undoing it, according to the secret text of the administration’s “biggest oil deal in world history” obtained by ProPublica .…

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