Donald Trump played up the possibility of a US war with Venezuela, but suggested that the days of Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nicolás Nocolás Nocolás Nicolás Maduro as the country’s president are numbered.
Asked if the US would go to war against Venezuela, the US President told CBS’s 60 Minutes: “I doubt it.” I don’t feel anything at all. “
His comments come as the US continues to launch strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean. The Trump administration has said the strikes should target the flow of drugs into the US.
Trump rejected suggestions that the US action was not about stopping narcotics, but aimed at outing Maduro, a long-time enemy, saying it was about “a lot of things”.
At least 64 people have been killed in US attacks in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific since last September, CBS News – the US News Partner – reported.
Speaking from Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Trump said: “Every single ship you see shot down 25,000 of drugs across the country.”
Pressed on whether the US was planning any ground strikes, Trump refused to rule it out, saying: “I’m not going to tell you what I’m going to do in Venezuela, if I’m going to do it or if I’m not going to do it.”
Maduro has accused Washington of “Making a new war”, while the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro said that the strikes on boats used by the US “Gominate” Latin America.
Trump said the government “will not allow” people “from all over the world” to enter.
“They come from Congo, they come from all over the world, they come from all over America. He called it “the most brutal gang anywhere in the world”.
This is Trump’s first conversation with CBS Since he told the parent company, More than a 2024 interview with former vice-present Kamala Harris.
He claimed that the interview was edited to “TIGH the scales in favor of the democratic party”.
Paramount agreed to pay $16m (£13.5m) to settle the suit, but with the money allocated to the future of Trump’s advertising library, directly or indirectly”. It is said that the settlement does not include a statement of apology.
Trump Malungtorahi on the 60 minutes program in 2020, when he walked away from an interview with Lesley Stahl because he admitted the questions were biased. He did not agree to an interview on the show during the 2024 election.