Updated Jan. 3, 2026, at 1:14 p.m.
Hours after the United States carried out airstrikes overnight in Venezuela and captured the country’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, President Trump said the U.S. would temporarily take control of the government.
“We’re going to run it, essentially,” Trump said at a late-morning news conference at Mar-a-Lago. He said that would continue “until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.”
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