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Af­ter months of grow­ing mil­i­tary pres­sure on Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás 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 & 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. Lat­er Sat­ur­day, Trump and oth­er of­fi­cials gave more de­tails dur­ing a news con­fer­ence from his Flori­da res­i­dence.

Maduro was in a ‘fortress,’ Trump says