US President Donald Trump said he watched military forces capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in real time.
In an interview with Fox News this morning, Mr. Trump praised the operation that captured the Venezuelan President, saying it was like watching TV.
“They rehearsed and practiced like nobody’s ever seen. And I was told, and I was told by real military people, that there’s no other country on earth that could do such a maneuver. If you would have seen what happened, I mean, I watched it literally like I was watching a television show. And if you would have seen the speed, the violence, you know, they say that, the speed, the violence, they use that term. It’s just, it was an amazing thing, an amazing job that these people did. There’s nobody else could have done anything like it.”
President Trump also noted that Mr. Maduro tried to “negotiate a deal” but he did not support this.
“He was trying to negotiate at the end. You probably saw that. And trying hard to make a deal. And I said, you know, this could have been a very foolish thing if it didn’t work out. But I said, nope, we can’t do it. What he did with drugs is bad. What he did with a lot of other things is bad. But what he did was sending hundreds of thousands of Tren de Aragua and drug dealers. And they emptied out their jails into our country. They emptied out, if you think about it, they emptied out all of their mental institutions into our country. What he did there, and every other thing, is unforgivable.”