U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader

President Trump announced that U.S. forces had carried out “a large scale strike against Venezuela” and were flying President Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of the country, the New York Times reports.

Said Trump: “A lot of good planning and lot of great, great troops and great people. It was a brilliant operation, actually.”

The Trump administration had been building pressure on Mr. Maduro for months.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said on social media that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told him in a phone call that Maduro was “arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States.”