"After months of growing military pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump ordered a brazen operation into the South American country to capture its leader and whisk him to the United States where his administration planned to put him on trial. In a Saturday morning interview on Fox and Friends Weekend, Trump laid out the details of the overnight strike, after which he said Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown by helicopter to a U.S. warship."
"American forces were armed with massive blowtorches, which they would have used to cut through steel walls had Maduro locked himself in the room, Trump said. 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. Part of that preparation, Trump said, included practicing maneuvers on a replica building. 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."
After months of escalating military pressure, U.S. forces conducted an overnight operation in Venezuela to capture President Nicolas Maduro and transported him and his wife to a U.S. warship. Maduro was located inside a heavily guarded presidential palace with a secure steel-lined safe space; attackers were prepared with blowtorches to cut through steel if necessary. Forces trained on a full-scale replica of the building. Most lights across Caracas were turned off during the operation, which involved machine-gun fire and at least seven explosions and lasted under 30 minutes. Reports indicate some Venezuelan civilians and military personnel were killed.
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