""It had what they call a safety space, where it's solid steel all around," Trump said. "He didn't get that space closed. He was trying to get into it, but he got bum-rushed right so fast that he didn't get into that. We were prepared.""
""We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse, we debrief, we rehearse again, and again," Caine said, saying his forces were "set" by early December. "Not to get it right, but to ensure we cannot get it wrong.""
""They actually built a house which was identical to the one they went into with all the same, all that steel all over the place," Trump said."
U.S. forces conducted a planned overnight strike that resulted in Nicolás Maduro and his wife being flown by helicopter to a U.S. warship. Maduro was described as highly guarded inside a presidential palace characterized as "like a fortress," and he nearly reached a steel-lined safe room but was prevented from closing it. American forces were prepared with tools to breach steel if required and had practiced on an identical replica building. Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Dan Caine said forces rehearsed for months and were "set" by early December to minimize the chance of error. The operation occurred largely in darkness with most lights turned off.
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