After [months of growing military pressure](https://apnews.com/article/trump-maduro-venezuela-drug-cartels-military-timeline-91e242e5c56eec39b6b7d72bf55dbd2d) on [Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro](https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-maduro-capture-trump-attack-military-ceb21da088f0a06b1813e66922def9a3), President [Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/article/trump-maduro-venezuela-b6e272ee8e23636a1ab9618d8257ae59) ordered a [brazen operation](https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-explosions-caracas-ca712a67aaefc30b1831f5bf0b50665e) into the South American country to capture its leader and whisk him to the United States where his administration planned to [put him on trial](https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl).

In a Saturday morning interview on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Trump laid out the details of the overnight strike, after which he said Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown by helicopter to a U.S. warship. Later Saturday, Trump and other officials gave more details during a news conference from his Florida residence.

Maduro was in a ‘fortress,’ Trump says

Trump described Maduro as being “highly guarded” in a presidential palace that was “like a fortress.” Maduro had nearly made it to a safe room inside it, Trump told reporters, although “he was unable to close it.”

How the US captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro - Breitbart