BY OUR FOREIGN DESK
WASHINGTON – DONALD TRUMP has sensationally revealed how he watched like a “television show” as elite US special forces swooped into Venezuela to snatch tyrant President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a daring midnight raid.
The US President left the world stunned this morning by announcing the capture of the socialist dictator, whose years of defiance against Washington have finally come to a bone-crunching end.
Speaking on Fox & Friends, a triumphant Trump described the moment he witnessed the high-stakes mission unfold in real-time from the Situation Room. He hailed the “speed and violence” of the strike, claiming no other nation on the planet could have pulled off the audacious maneuver.
”The team did an incredible job,” Trump told viewers. “They rehearsed and practiced like nobody’s ever seen. And I was told by real military people that there’s no other country on Earth that can do such a maneuver.”
The President appeared mesmerized by the clinical efficiency of the American commandos. “If you would have seen what happened—I mean, I watched it literally like I was watching a television show. If you would have seen the speed, the violence… they say that speed is violence. It was just an amazing thing.”
The capture marks the final, dramatic chapter in the toxic relationship between the US and the man who turned the oil-rich nation of Venezuela into a basket case. Since taking the reins in 2013 following the death of his mentor Hugo Chavez, Maduro has been a thorn in Washington’s side, overseeing a collapsed economy, allegations of rigged elections, and brutal crackdowns on protestors.
While Maduro’s inner circle long claimed he was the victim of “Yankee imperialism,” the US had stepped up the heat in recent years, slapping the leader with drug trafficking charges and a $15 million bounty on his head.
The White House has yet to confirm where Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are being held, but the mission is being hailed as the most significant US military extraction since the era of Manuel Noriega.
As the dust settles in Caracas, the world is waiting to see what becomes of the man who dared to defy the might of the United States.
