WATCH: Trump Says he Personally Watched Venezuela Strikes – No US Forces Were Killed
President Trump joined Fox News on Saturday morning to discuss the invasion of Venezuela that occurred hours earlier and resulted in Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro being captured and indicted.
Trump commended the US troops, saying they “did an incredible job,” and “there’s no other country on Earth that can do such a maneuver.”
“I watched it, literally, like I was watching a television show,” he said.
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Trump: It was slightly busy, I would say. It was very dark all over, especially in Venezuela. The team did an incredible job. They rehearsed and practiced like nobody’s ever seen. And I was told, and I was told by real military people that there’s no other country on Earth that can do such a maneuver. If you would have seen what happened, I mean, I watched it, literally, like I was watching a television show.
And if you would have seen the speed the violence, you know, they say that “the speed the violence,” they use that term. Just, it was an amazing thing, an amazing job that these people did. There’s nobody else could have done anything like it.
Trump also revealed that he “watched every aspect of it” in “real time” from Florida.
He added that no US forces were killed in the operation, despite “a few injuries.”
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Trump: I’ve never seen anything like this.I was able to watch it in real time, and I watched every aspect of it, and I listened to the communication between, you know, where we were, in Florida and out in the field in Venezuela. And it was amazing to see the professionalism, the quality of leadership, the professionalism general Raizin Kaine is fantastic.
Don’t forget, we did another one not so long ago. It was called the knocking out of the Iranian nuclear threat, the nuclear power— that was unbelievable what they did there. And this is something that’s, I don’t know, it’s amazing, and to have a few injuries, but no death on our side, it’s really amazing.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced the successful “large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader” early on Saturday, adding that Maduro and his wife were captured and flown out of the country.
Maduro and his wife were then charged in the Southern District of New York, with Maduro facing counts of Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States.
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