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The U.S. will run Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” President Donald Trump said Saturday following the strikes that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
U.S. military used power from the “air, land and sea” to launch a “spectacular assault” in strikes on the Venezuelan capital, leading to the capture of VMaduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump said at a Saturday news conference.
Trump briefed the media at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., claiming the Venezuelan military was “completely overwhelmed.”
“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” Trump told reporters.
The president said the U.S. remains ready to stage a second larger attack “if we needed to do so.” He added that initially his administration believed a second wave would be ne...
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