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President Donald Trump spoke with “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday morning just hours after the U.S. hit Venezuela and captured its leader Nicolás Maduro.
The president said that he watched the operation from Mar-a-Lago.
“It’s just it was an amazing thing, the amazing job that these people did. There’s nobody else could have done anything like it,” Trump said of the historic operation.
When asked about critics who have emerged in the hours since the strikes, Trump brushed it off, saying that they were “weak, stupid people.”
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) condemned U.S. strikes on Venezuela, saying that the U.S. carried out “an act of armed aggression” that “gives rise to deep concern [and] warrants condemnation.”
“The pretexts used to justify these actions are untenable,” the Russian MFA wrote in a post on X. “Russia reaffirms its solidarity with the Venezuelan people.”
In a longer statement, Russia’s MFA called for the prevention of further escalation and urged the U.S. and Venezuela “to focus on finding a solution through dialogue.” The Kremlin added that “Latin America must remain a zone of peace, as it proclaimed itself in 2014.”
This comes as the Trump administration has been attempting to negotiate peace in the nearly four-year-long Ukraine-Russia war. Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 during the Biden administration.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro could make an initial appearance in federal court in Manhattan as soon as this coming Monday, Fox News is told.
The timing could change at this stage, but his appearance will happen “likely Monday,” Fox News learned.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. carried out a strike on Venezuela early Saturday and captured Maduro and his wife, who have been flown out of the country. Attorney General Pam Bondi reiterated that Maduro and his wife had already been indicted in the Southern District of New York.
