🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Maduro sent savage and murderous gangs to terrorize American communities. They were in Colorado and took over apartments. They cut people's fingers off if they called police. They were brutal... but they're not so brutal now." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "I want to congratulate our troops." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Totally unrelated, but Trump just said 6-7.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Venezuela unilaterally seized American oil and American assets. They took all our property. We never had a president who did anything about it. Instead they fought wars tens of thousands of miles away. The socialist regime stole it from us in those previous administrations, and they stole it through force." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "America will never allow foreign powers to drive us back into and out of our own hemisphere." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "We will secure our borders, we will stop the terrorists, we will crash the cartels, and we will defend our citizens against all threats foreign and domestic." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "The United States retains ALL military options until our demands have been satisfied." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "The dictator is finally gone, and the Venezuelan people are finally free. This morning, America is a prouder nation." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Thank you all for being here." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has taken the podium.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "A massive joint military and law enforcement operation executed by the greatest Americans our country has to offer. American warriors are second to none; the best in the world, and the best in our country." - Secretary of War Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Our warriors are the elite of America, and President Trump has their back." - Secretary of War Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- History fact of the day: The Roosevelt Corollary addition to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, which President Teddy Roosevelt articulated to justify US actions in Latin America, was because of Venezuela when the European powers blockaded the country from 1902-1903.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "As the President said, our adversaries remain on notice. We can project our will anywhere, anytime. The coordination, the stealth, the lethality, the precision of American justice on full display. Maduro had his chance, just like Iran had their chance." - Secretary of War Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "Maduro effed around, and he found out." - Secretary of War Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "This is America First. This is peace through strength. And the United States War Department is proud to deliver it. Welcome to 2026, and under President Trump, America is back." - Secretary of War Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan "Raizin" Caine, has taken the podium.

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇻🇪- El Salvador President Bukele celebrated the capture of Maduro on Twitter. Maduro had previously called Bukele an "imperialist puppet".

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: The operation to capture Maduro has finally been given a name: Operation Absolute Resolve.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "We leveraged our unmatched intelligence capabilities and our years of hunting terrorists. We watched, we waited, we prepared, we remained patient and professional. This mission was meticulously planned. This was an audacious operation that only the United States could do. It required the upmost of precision and integration within our joint force." - General Dan "Raizin" Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.