Trump says US will ‘run’ Venezuela after Nicolas Maduro seized
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Trump says the US will ‘run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition’.
United States President Donald Trump has said that Washington will “run” Venezuela until a political transition can take place, hours after US forces bombed the South American country and “captured” its president, Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking during a news conference on Saturday, Trump said the US would “run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”.
“We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years,” he said.
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