Trump Issues Bizarre Executive Order Banning Purchases Of Venezuela’s Cryptocurrency

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mon, 03/19/2018

Cryptos are moving sharply lower in response to news that President Trump has issued an executive order banning the U.S. purchases of the “Petro”, the cryptocurrency which was infamously rolled out by the Venezuelan government; the order comes as part of a campaign to put more pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

So why was the executive order Bizarre?

Because, in what one hopes was just a grammatical oversight, the subject of the email sent out to the media notifying of the cryptocurrency ban, was that it is an “Executive Order on Taking Additional Steps To Address the Situation In America.“ Only after reading the actual email was it revealed that the EO actually refers to Venezuela, prompting some commentators to note that “Trump hasn’t yet succeeded in turning America into Venezuela.”

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