Posted on 01/03/2026 6:56:28 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
"President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military carried out a "large-scale strike" in Venezuela early Saturday morning and took Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody." -President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife have been captured and flown out of the country after the U.S. carried out a "large scale strike." Trump is expected to address the nation at 11 a.m. ET from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. -The U.S. military has carried out a series of strikes on suspected drug vessels allegedly tied to the Venezuelan regime in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific. The CIA carried out a strike in late December against a dock area inside Venezuela that U.S. officials said was used by drug cartels to load narcotics onto boats. -The U.S. government had offered a $50 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Maduro. After Saturday's early-morning operation, Venezuela's vice president has demanded proof of life.
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9:30 “Trump speaks to ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ hours after US strikes on Venezuela, capture of Maduro”
President Donald Trump spoke with “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday morning just hours after the U.S. hit Venezuela and captured its leader Nicolás Maduro.
The president said that he watched the operation from Mar-a-Lago.
“It’s just it was an amazing thing, the amazing job that these people did. There’s nobody else could have done anything like it,” Trump said of the historic operation.
EXCERPT
Probably the 9th attempt to begin a thread about something that we all knew about 5 hours ago.
LOL .... true!
Maybe Trump can collect the bounty on Maduro and use it to fund the triumphal arch.
Lol I could imagine Trump saying he had “a very good phone call” with Maduro after his capture. In fact, there’s never been anything like it.
Super fringe benefits: Less illegal oil for Russia and China. Less drug money for them.
Laughing. I was just thinking about Democrats on the floor spazzing and foaming at the mouth.
“Probably the 9th attempt to begin a thread”
Perhaps.
I appreciated hearing President Trump LIVE of FOX.
Please note President Trump, Pete Hegseth and others will be giving LIVE PRESS COMFERENCE at 11:00:00 A.M.
Arrest them too.
I listened to a few minutes of the interview on Sirius/XM while running errands this morning. Trump saw it live. He commented that the troops blew through steel doors in seconds to get him..
“Laughing. I was just thinking about Democrats on the floor spazzing and foaming at the mouth.”
Yes! LOL
President Donald Trump told “Fox & Friends Weekend” that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife were taken by helicopter to the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. The two were captured during an operation on Saturday morning in Caracas.
“Trump saw it live. He commented that the troops blew through steel doors in seconds to get him.”
Apparently, a replicated ‘stage’ of his militarized home/hideout was made for special ops to train in.
Video
Caracas wakes to the sound of Venezuelans shouting “freedom,” applauding, and celebrating a moment years in the making
https://rumble.com/v73tfm2-caracas-wakes-to-the-sound-of-venezuelans-shouting-freedom-applauding-and-c.html
I heard it was Delta Force that nabbed them with an air assist by the 160th Nightstalker. 👍
Hmmm...... well I’ll be damned. Trump for the 800th time appears on FOX
I guess we can’t believe it’s really him because fox is FAUX News
Wasn’t that his daughter in the middle chair on Fox and Friends just yesterday? Probably a FAUX double plant
I wish the moderater would go through the posts and eliminate the duplicates. It only confuses the reader, not knowing which post to respond to.
“Russia condemns US ‘act of armed aggression’ in Venezuela”
How interesting! Putin need to be looking over his shoulder!LOL
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) condemned U.S. strikes on Venezuela, saying that the U.S. carried out “an act of armed aggression” that “gives rise to deep concern [and] warrants condemnation.”
“The pretexts used to justify these actions are untenable,” the Russian MFA wrote in a post on X. “Russia reaffirms its solidarity with the Venezuelan people.”
In a longer statement, RUSSIA’S MFA called for the PREVENTION OF FURTHER ESCALATION AND URGED THE U.S. AND VENEZUELA “to focus on finding a solution through dialogue.” The Kremlin added that “Latin America must remain a zone of peace, as it proclaimed itself in 2014.”
H’MMM, Russia certainly has NO ROOM to express this opinion,
Remember when Russia simply ignored the The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances signed 12-5-1994 by: Ukraine, RUSSIA, the United States, and the United Kingdom, that provided security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for give up their nuclear arsenal.
Now put Sniffy the Clown in cuffs.
This operation was rather clean. I wonder if word got out to some Venezuelan military leaders to stand down or we will kill you. No pot shots were taken at US military aircraft in the brief videos I’ve seen.
President Javier Milei of Argentina, a close ally of Trump, praised the news by sharing a previous video of him denouncing Maduro’s “narco-terrorist” regime as a regional threat and urging Latin American leaders to back U.S. pressure to end it.
“Long live freedom, dammit!” Milei wrote, using his signature pro-freedom chant.
After Trump started capturing false flagged and otherwise sanctioned illegal oil tankers, Xi started some legal, chinese flagged tankers towards Venezuela: Xi daring Trump to confront China directly. With this, Trump trumps Xi’s ace.
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