Overview
- Calling into Fox & Friends, Trump described an operation involving airstrikes in Caracas and the capture and extradition of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores to face charges in the Southern District of New York.
- He said he watched the raid in real time from Mar-a-Lago and described the feed as being like watching a television show.
- Asked if the Venezuela action was a message to Mexico, he said it was not intended as one and added that something has to be done with Mexico.
- He characterized Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum as very frightened of the cartels, claimed the cartels are running Mexico, and said he had repeatedly offered U.S. help to take out the cartels.
- He asserted U.S. drug deaths are closer to 300,000 and argued most narcotics enter through the southern border, while former aide Victoria Coates said Sheinbaum might worry she could be subject to similar action.