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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro attempted to negotiate in the final days before U.S. forces captured him, but Trump refused the offer. “I didn’t want to negotiate,” the American president told Fox News. “I said, ‘Nope, we got to do it.’”

Trump confirmed that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima, one of several U.S. warships deployed in the Caribbean. Survivors from prior U.S. strikes on Venezuelan vessels allegedly involved in drug trafficking were also brought aboard the ship.

Trump suggested that other Venezuelan officials who remain loyal to Maduro could face further U.S. action. “If they stay loyal, the future is really bad, really bad for them,” he said. “I’d say most of them have converted.”