President Peace announced early Saturday morning that the US had a carried an attack against Venezuela and kidnapped President Maduro and his wife.
AP News:
At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela's capital, Caracas. https://t.co/xiQhhRvIVv
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 3, 2026
The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country in an extraordinary nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the oil-rich South American nation.
The U.S. is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Saturday on Fox News, adding, “We’ll be involved in it very much.”
AP News. 01/03/2026.
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 3, 2026
TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're… pic.twitter.com/XvIM3fZYrN
Fox & Friends (host / interviewer):
Mr. President your war on Narco terrorism from our Southern border and Beyond clearly will save American lives moving forward for Venezuela. What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people. Now that you have removed Madero so that he can face American Justice?
President New Wars:
Well, we’re making that decision now, we can’t take a chance of letting somebody else run and just take over where he left or left off. So, we’re making that decision now. We’ll be involved in it very much, and we want to do Liberty for the people we want to, you know, have a great relationship.
I think the people of Venezuela are very very happy because they love the United States. You know, they were run by essentially a dictatorship, or worse, it couldn’t have been worse. It was, it was. It was a terrible thing that was taking place in Venezuela, but look, uh, tremendous numbers of people were being killed through drugs and what they did to our country and sending, uh, prisoners and mental people from mental institutions. Drug lords and everything they centered by the hundreds of thousands of people into our country, and that is just unforgivable.
That’s why, you know, he wanted to negotiate at the end, and I didn’t want to negotiate. I said, nope, we got to do it, you know, he was trying to negotiate at the end. You probably saw that. Trying hard to make a deal. And I said, and you know, this could have been a very foolish thing if it didn’t work out, but I said, nope, we can’t do it.
I used screen grabs of Chrome Closed caption and chatGPT and my own ears to get the transcript. 01/03/2026.
State Department Secretary Marco “I Have no Soul” Rubio has told at least one lawmaker that he does not anticipate any further action in Venezuela.
He anticipates no further action in Venezuela now that Maduro is in U.S. custody
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 3, 2026
Tweet Text:
He informed me that Nicolás Maduro has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States, and that the kinetic action we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend those executing the arrest warrant This action likely falls within the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack Thank you, @SecRubio, for keeping me apprised
It’s the tweet. 01/03/2025.
Everyone is saying we aren’t at war. Everyone, except President New War.
Trump: "I think we had nobody killed, I have to say, because a couple guys were hit … it's a war" pic.twitter.com/f96cM6jyen
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 3, 2026
President New Wars:
So, we were going to do this four days ago, but the weather was not perfect. The weather has to be perfect, and we had just the perfect weather we had. You know, very good little bit of a little bit, few more clouds we thought, but it was good. We waited four days. We were gonna do this. Four days ago. Three days ago, two days ago, and then all of a sudden, it opened up. And we said, go. And I’ll tell you, it’s, uh, it was just amazing.
And what was he doing? He was. In a very uh, highly guarded like a Fortress. Actually, he was in a Fortress. You know that we had nobody killed was amazing. I think we had nobody killed. I have to say, because a couple of guys were hit, but they came back in this supposed to be a pretty good shape, but uh, that we had nobody killed that. We lost no aircraft, you know, everything came back. We got it all back. One of them was hit pretty hard, but a helicopter, but we got it back, but it just was the right time to do it. We had to do it because it’s a war we’re losing 300 000 people a year. We don’t lose that much in a war. Okay if you look, and we had to do it, but he was in. Uh, in a house that was more like a fortress than a house it had steel door
house that was more like a Fortress than a house. It had steel doors. It had what they call the safety space, whereas you know solid steel all around, he didn’t get that space closed. He was trying to get into it, but he got bum rush so fast that he didn’t get into that we were prepared. We had, you know, massive blowtorches and everything else that you need to get through that steel, but we didn’t need it. Uh, he didn’t. He didn’t make it to that area
I used screen grabs of Chrome Closed caption and chatGPT and my own ears to get the transcript. 01/03/2026.
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