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President Donald Trump revealed throughout an unique interview with “Fox & Pals Weekend” that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured in a “fortress”-like home, the place he bought “bum rushed so quick” by American particular forces.
Trump mentioned he huddled with generals inside a room at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida as they “watched each facet” of the “extraordinarily complicated” operation unfold. The president mentioned the preliminary plan was for Maduro to be captured earlier this week, however U.S. forces needed to watch for the precise climate circumstances.
“We waited 4 days. We have been going to do this, 4 days in the past, three days in the past, two days in the past. After which all of a sudden it opened up, and we mentioned, ‘go,’” the president mentioned, describing how Maduro was in a “very highly-guarded” home on the time he was confronted.
“He was in a home that was extra like a fortress than a home. It had metal doorways. It had what they name a security house, the place it is, you realize, strong metal throughout. He did not get that house closed. He was attempting to get into it, however he bought bum rushed so quick that he did not get into that,” Trump mentioned. “We have been ready. We had, you realize, large blowtorches and every part else that you should get by that metal. However we did not want it. He did not make it to that space of the home.”
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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro addresses supporters in Caracas, Venezuela, on Dec. 10, 2025. (Pedro Rances Mattey/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
A U.S. official briefed on the matter informed Fox Information on Saturday that the U.S. Military’s Delta Power bodily captured Maduro, with the CIA offering intelligence to the Division of Battle to assist observe down the dictator’s location.
“All the pieces was pinpoint… every part they practiced. They really constructed a home which was equivalent to the one they went into with all of the safes, all of the metal all over,” Trump informed “Fox & Pals Weekend,” describing the army planning that went into the operation.
Trump mentioned he believes no U.S. forces have been killed throughout the operation. He added that, “a few guys have been hit, however they got here again, and so they’re purported to be in fairly fine condition.”
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Appearing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro waves to supporters as he leaves after voting for the successor to the late President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas on April 14, 2013. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
Trump additionally mentioned Maduro and his spouse have been taken by helicopter to the usS. Iwo Jima, and that they have been heading to New York to face an indictment on prices together with narco-terrorism conspiracy.
When requested about what the way forward for Venezuela holds with Maduro not within the nation, Trump mentioned, “we’re making that call now.”
“We cannot take an opportunity of letting any person else run and simply take over the place he left off. So we’re making that call now,” Trump informed Fox Information on Saturday morning. “We’ll be concerned in it very a lot, and we wish to do liberty for the folks. We wish to, you realize, have a terrific relationship. I believe the folks of Venezuela are very, very pleased as a result of they love the USA. , they have been run by basically a dictatorship or worse.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro addresses supporters throughout a rally marking the anniversary of the Nineteenth-century Battle of Santa Ines in Caracas, Venezuela, on Dec. 10, 2025. (Pedro Rances Mattey/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
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Trump additionally mentioned the U.S. army operations in Venezuela “is saving lives as a result of the drug trafficking is so unhealthy, it is gotten so uncontrolled.”
Fox Information’ Rachel Wolf and David Spunt contributed to this report.
